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Illinois budget
'The Best In A Generation': Higher Ed Board Members React To Legislative Session And State Budget
By Peter Medlin • Jun 4, 2019
Members of the Illinois Board of Higher Education are satisfied with how higher ed fared in the new state budget passed by Illinois lawmakers.
For several years, Illinois higher ed officials have been fighting their way out of the hole dug during the two-year budget impasse.
But they say the budget, passed by the General Assembly, is a big improvement. Nyle Robinson is the Higher Education Board's Interim Executive Director.
"...major steps in repairing the damage," he said. "In fact, this is arguably the best session for higher education in a generation."
Community Colleges Are Still Rebounding From The Budget Crisis
By Peter Medlin • Nov 15, 2018
It's been a rough couple of years for Illinois community colleges, from the slashed funds of the budget impasse to concerning enrollment declines. This is the final installment of a three-part series on how these very different schools have stayed afloat by embracing change and, more importantly, putting the "community" in community college.
The Kishwaukee table tennis club's practice is in full swing. They're preparing for a tournament coming up soon.
How Community Colleges Stay Local To Cope With State Instability
It's been a rough couple of years for Illinois community colleges, from the slashed funds of the budget impasse to concerning enrollment declines. We begin a three-part series on how these very different schools have stayed afloat by embracing change and, more importantly, putting the "community" in community college.
Are Non-Traditional Students And Classes The Future? Some Community Colleges Say So
It's been a rough couple of years for Illinois community colleges, from the slashed funds of the budget impasse to concerning enrollment declines. This is part two in a three-part series on how these very different schools have stayed afloat by embracing change and, more importantly, putting the community in community college.
Some Budget Suggestions For The Winning Candidate For Governor
By CHARLES N. WHEELER III • Sep 28, 2018
CARTER STALEY / NPR ILLINOIS
While debating, candidates offered no concrete suggestions for addressing fiscal problems but possibilities exist.
In today's fevered political climate, is it possible to have a serious discussion about possible ways to address the fiscal problems Illinois faces?
Not very likely, if one judges by the first debate among incumbent Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and his three challengers, Democrat J.B. Pritzker, Conservative candidate/Republican Sen. Sam McCann, and Libertarian Grayson "Kash" Jackson.
NIU Official Says Governor's Higher Education Budget Falls Short
By Guy Stephens • Feb 19, 2018
Matt Streb, chief of staff to Acting NIU President Lisa Freeman, says Gov. Bruce Rauner's proposed allocation for higher education ignores even a minimal 1.9 percent increase requested by the Illinois Board of Higher Education. Instead, it keeps cuts made in last summer's budget deal.
"The [university] presidents," he said, "including Acting President Freeman, have argued that the institutions in the state should revert to the Fiscal '15 year allocation, which was the last year that we had a full budget before FY '18."
The End Of The Illinois Budget Impasse Didn't End Agencies' Problems
By Susan Stephens • Oct 20, 2017
Carter Staley / NPR Illinois | 91.9 UIS
Five DeKalb-area panelists took part in an Illinois Issues discussion earlier this week about the effects of the two-year Illinois budget impasse and the state's financial future. That's the subject of this week's WNIJ Friday Forum.
Illinois was without a state budget for two years. That ended in early July when lawmakers overrode Governor Bruce Rauner's veto. It was a huge relief to schools, social service agencies, and programs that rely on state funding. But celebrations were tempered by the reality of the state's fiscal situation.
Illinois Sells Three Batches Of Bonds To Help Pay Down Bill Backlog
By WNIJ News • Oct 19, 2017
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Illinois has taken another step toward paying down nearly $16 billion in overdue bills.
That money is owed to hospitals, electric utilities, drug rehab centers — basically anyone who has a contract with state government.
The state began issuing bonds Tuesday, effectively refinancing the debt to cut interest penalties, but it will be a long road back to normal.
Agency Says The Illinois Tax Hike Will Ding Wisconsin's Budget By More Than $50 Million
By Guy Stephens • Jul 12, 2017
The Wisconsin Legislative Bureau said the recently-passed income tax hike in Illinois will cost Wisconsin more than $50 million in revenue over the next two years. Why?
Illinois and Wisconsin have an income tax reciprocity agreement.
Without it, residents of one state who work in the other would have to first file in the state where they earn income, pay taxes on that income, and then file again in the state where they reside, claiming a credit for taxes already paid to the first state.
After Two Years, Illinois Has A State Budget Again
By WNIJ News • Jul 7, 2017
Brian Mackey/Illinois Public Radio
The two-year Illinois budget impasse is over.
The House of Representatives voted Thursday to override gubernatorial vetoes, giving final approval to a $36 billion spending plan and $5 billion tax increase. The laws are retroactive to July 1, the start of the current fiscal year.
There was not a single vote to spare. Ten Republicans who defied Gov. Bruce Rauner joined with Democrats for the 71 votes needed to end the crisis -- the nation's longest since at least the Great Depression.
The Vote Is Scheduled; Will The House Override Budget Vetoes?
By Victor Yehling • Jul 6, 2017
It's all up to the Illinois House of Representatives.
Speaker Michael Madigan announced Wednesday that he will call a vote on whether to override the veto of the spending plan and supporting tax increase that both chambers approved over the weekend.
After Gov. Bruce Rauner's swift rejection on Sunday, the state Senate came back and rejected the veto later that day. The House has not taken up the matter yet, due in part to member absences. But more on that later.
House Democrats Say They're Finalizing A State Budget Proposal
By WNIJ News • Jun 26, 2017
Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan said Democrats are finalizing a proposed state budget plan and could present it to minority Republicans as soon as Tuesday.
Madigan and fellow Chicago Democratic Rep. Greg Harris would not discuss details but said they're devising a spending plan and revenue to pay for it. It might be ready for discussion at Tuesday's meeting of the four legislative leaders.
Area Lawmakers Offer Different Views Of Statehouse Special Session Activities
Jenna Dooley / WNIJ
Thursday was the second of ten scheduled special sessions for the Illinois Legislature called by the governor to address the lack of a budget.
At least one northern Illinois lawmaker believes that the ball is not in his court, for the moment. State Sen. Steve Stadelman, D-Rockford, says that -- as far as he and his colleagues are concerned -- they've done their job, and people wanting action on the budget should look to the House and the governor.
Rauner Proclaims Special Sessions To Pass A State Budget By June 30
BRIAN MACKEY / NPR ILLINOIS
One day after Illinois House and Senate Republicans unveiled a compromise plan to end the budget impasse, Gov. Bruce Rauner issued proclamations Thursday calling lawmakers back to Springfield for 10 days of special sessions starting Wednesday, June 21, to beat the June 30 fiscal-year deadline.
Rockford University Professor Says It's Time To Confront The State's 'Slow-Motion Disaster'
By Susan Stephens • Jun 2, 2017
Susan Stephens / WNIJ
The partisan divide in Springfield seems wider than ever as Illinoisans brace for the start of another fiscal year without a budget. Lawmakers adjourned Wednesday without a spending plan. In this week's Friday Forum, WNIJ's Susan Stephens asked Rockford University Economics and Political Science Professor Bob Evans how we ended up here again.
House Lawmakers Won't Vote On State Budget Before Session Ends
By Brian Mackey • May 31, 2017
Today was the last day of the annual legislative session in the state capitol. It also happens to be the 700th day since Illinois last had a real budget.
Democrats – who hold a majority in both chambers of the General Assembly -- still aren't saying whether they plan to do anything about that.
This is third year in which House Democrats have put themselves in this same position: going up to the end of session without a clear path on the budget.
Can Illinois Lawmakers Get Together To Resolve Budget Impasse?
Just over two weeks remain in the Illinois General Assembly's spring legislative session. Lawmakers haven't passed a full budget in more than two years.
And there are serious doubts about whether they'll extend or break the streak before the session is scheduled to end May 31.
That would mean Democrats satisfying Gov. Bruce Rauner's business and political agenda and Republicans agreeing on a series of tax hikes to begin stabilizing state finances.
Illinois Lawmakers Return From Break Facing Budget Issues
By Associated Press • Apr 24, 2017
Illinois lawmakers are returning to the Capitol this week to resume work on trying to end the budget stalemate that has eluded them for almost two years.
The State Journal-Register reports that, just before lawmakers' two-week spring break, the House approved another stopgap spending bill that would give more than $800 million to human-services programs and higher education.
Dentists Among Those Hit Hard By State Budget Impasse
By Tom Lisi • Mar 6, 2017
"Dentist" by Flickr User Travis Wise / (CC X 2.0)
With no budget, Illinois has racked up a $12 billion tab in unpaid bills and that number is growing. Among those still waiting for their checks: Dentists.
Dr. Ronald Lynch runs a family dentistry in Jacksonville. He says the money he's waiting for is up to $170,000. How far behind is Illinois in paying Lynch?
"We are approximately at November of 2015," Lynch said.
That means a state worker went to see Lynch just after the Kansas City Royals won the World Series, and Lynch has only recently gotten paid for it.
Illinois Senate Returns Today For More Budget Compromise Talks
By Associated Press • Jan 26, 2017
The Senate adjourned abruptly early Wednesday evening after Democrats and Republicans held private caucus meetings that lasted more than three hours.
A spokesman for Democratic Senate President John Cullerton issued a statement saying Senate leaders continue to discuss the massive compromise plan, and the Senate will return to session today.
New Legislation Could Make Illinois The First State With A Sugar Tax
By Thomas Lisi • Jan 19, 2017
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Part of a potential compromise at the statehouse would make Illinois the first state with a tax on sugary drinks, like soda.
It's among new legislation that's meant to end the budget stalemate and bring in more tax dollars.
Just a few cities in the U.S., and Cook County have such a tax on the books. In past debates, opponents said a soda tax means a nanny state where the government tells people what's bad for them.
Illinois Senate Vows Swift Action On Ambitious Budget Plan
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Illinois Senate leaders are hoping to move swiftly on their pledge to advance a state-budget compromise by month's end.
The Democratic-controlled chamber has assigned 13 pieces of legislation for committee hearings that aim to break the two-year budget deadlock between legislative Democrats and Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner.
The proposals include an income tax increase and a hike in the minimum wage, but also attempt to satisfy Rauner's pro-business agenda with a property-tax freeze and restrictions on workers' compensation awards.
State Report Says Illinois Spending Could Exceed Tax Revenue By $13 Billion
By Brian Mackey • Jan 2, 2017
State government is projected to spend as much as 13 billion dollars more than it will collect in taxes this year. That's according to a recent report by the General Assembly's bipartisan budget analysts.
Revenue manager Jim Muschinske notes that collection of sales tax has been essentially flat from July through November.
"Seventy percent of the economy is driven by the consumer, so anytime they take a pause, it's a little bit of a concern," he says.
He also says there's low performance with income and corporate taxes.
Illinois Legislature Passes Stopgap Budget Deal
By Guy Stephens • Jun 30, 2016
The Illinois Legislature today passed pieces of a stopgap budget deal between the governor and top legislative leaders to keep the state running and fund schools in the fiscal year that begins Friday. The bills now head to the desk of Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner for his signature.
The deal includes money to fund state services, colleges, prisons and road construction for the next six months. It also provides a full year of funding for elementary and secondary education, including money for financially struggling Chicago Public Schools.
Rauner Sees The Good, Bad And Ugly As Budget Deadline Nears
By Victor Yehling • Jun 27, 2016
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner painted a bleak picture Monday morning of what could happen if a state budget is not passed before Friday.
But he gave some hope that a solution could be reached when the Illinois General Assembly returns to Springfield on Wednesday for the first time since the spring legislative session ended in May.
IDOT Starts Shutting Down Projects Due To Lack Of State Budget
The Illinois Department of Transportation has begun informing contractors that all IDOT projects will begin shutting down starting June 30 if no state budget agreement is reached.
A statement attributed to IDOT Secretary Randy Blankenhorn says the move is "due to the majority party in the legislature's failure to pass a balanced budget."
Weekend Efforts Fall Short; Little Hope For An Illinois Budget By Deadline
By Amanda Vinicky • May 27, 2016
Lawmakers only have two days to pass a budget before a pending deadline. But even as top leaders came out of a meeting Sunday saying that a deal is "possible," it was clear the chances are woefully slim.
Gov. Bruce Rauner has danced around it before. But this time, he didn't flinch. He says if it gets to his desk, he will reject in its entirety the only spending plan currently alive in the statehouse: a plan House Democrats approved last week.
"That's the bill that has a $7 billion implied deficit in it," he said. "I will veto that bill."
Thousands Of Union Protestors At Capitol Say Rauner Is Hurting Illinois
Amanda Vinicky/Illinois Public Radio
Union members flooded streets in front of the Illinois Statehouse to protest Gov. Bruce Rauner's agenda and what they say are his anti-labor policies.
Union workers marched to the Capitol for a rally, where they were joined briefly by a pair of prominent Democrats: House Speaker Michael Madigan and Senate President John Cullerton.
There was a time, in recent memory, that the labor movement wasn't all too fond of Madigan. Though he's a Democrat, he helped pass bills cutting government-worker pension benefits, and he's backed corporate tax breaks.
More Than $600 Million In Illinois Debt Isn't Processed Through Comptroller's Office
By Sarah Mueller • May 18, 2016
Illinois Times
Illinois is racking up more debt than even its comptroller knows about. Hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of bills are awaiting payment. They're part of a little-known program that has lawmakers asking questions.
Documents obtained by Illinois Public Radio show that, since November, the state owes businesses in the Vendor Support Initiative program more than $600 million. That doesn't include the 1 percent interest fee applied per month to bills over 90 days old under the Prompt Payment Act.
Homeless Youth Protest Lack Of State Funds
By Sarah Mueller • Apr 6, 2016
About 50 Illinois homeless youth and service providers essentially ambushed Gov. Bruce Rauner Tuesday. Their goal was to bring attention to a lack of state funding for job training, counseling and affordable housing.


For David Fincannon, president of A-All Pest Control, hanging onto an old issue of Pest Management Professional (PMP) turned out to be one smart move.
This year, Fincannon entered one of his copies—yes, one—of the May 1957 issue of PMP, formerly known as Pest Control, into a collections contest at the State Fair of Texas. The issue, featuring "Big Tex" with a PCO fogging machine for flies, brought home an honorable mention in the category, Collections-Texas.
Two years ago he received a 2nd place ribbon in the Collections-Advertising category with two items seen in the above picture.
There are 96 categories this year at the Texas State Fair under Hobby Collections. A hobbyist can enter only in three of the categories. Most categories require two items that are at least 30 years old, or the antique category submission is one item submitted that has to be at least 100 years old.


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Astral Daze: Psychedelic South African Rock 1968-1972
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This collection brings together rarities from well-known artists like Abstract Truth, Suck, Otis Waygood, Freedom's Children, John & Philipa Cooper, McCully Workshop and Hawk, as well as lesser known acts like Buzzard, The Fireflies, The Idiots, Tidal Wave, and The Invaders. Although the South African rock movement of the late sixties and early seventies was not a major commercial success, its participants heralded an exciting new age in South African rock and started a movement aimed at changing the musical tastes of fans in a spectacular way. Stadium concerts became the vehicle for feeding the youth with heavier rock sounds, and behind studio glass were producers like Clive Calder, Billy Forrest, Graham Beggs and Selwyn Miller who acted as change agents to transform conventional pop into heavier four to five minute songs. The movement's struggle for recognition through airplay remained unanswered and only the true fans of rock knew about their existence. Licensed by the Fresh Music label in South Africa and available on vinyl for the first time, complete with insert and liner notes.
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Poster, Airs de Paris, 2007. Designed by M/M (Paris): Michael Amzalag and Mathias Augustyniak for Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, France). Screenprint. 176 × 120 cm (5 ft. 9 5/16 in. × 47 1/4 in.). Gift of M/M (Paris), 2015-4-4.
The exhibition Airs de Paris was curated by Christine Macel and Daniel Birnbaum at the Centre Georges Pompidou in 2007. M/M (Paris) designed a personal version of the official exhibition poster; their counter proposal was presented as an art piece displayed within the exhibition itself. The poster depicts the Centre Pompidou with a variety of small objects and museum souvenirs. The poster also announced an eight-year retrospective of M/M (Paris)'s Art Poster Series. The retrospective featured a presentation of thirty-two full-scale posters followed by an exhibition of posters reduced to one-third of their original size, accompanied by a boxed edition of the miniature reproductions (estampes), exhibited throughout the space.


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Q: How to use "sous vide" in a sentence First, I'm not sure if sous vide is a trademark or just a cooking method like boil or fry.
How should I use sous vide in a sentence when writing a recipe?

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Q: How to configure sensitivity of outlier detection for time series? I'm detecting outliers in a periodic time series constructed as so:
install.packages("outliers")
time_series_obj = ts(time_series_data, frequency = SOME_VALUE)
fitted_time_series_data <- stl(time_series_obj, "periodic", robust=TRUE)
outliers <- which(fitted_time_series_data$weights<1e-8)

The outlier detection is too sensitive for my needs, and I only want to keep the most extreme outliers. (Changing the weight filter has very little effect.) I would like the sensitivity to be configurable (e.g. filter out all outliers with a remainder that has an absolute value greater than k standard deviations or some similar approach).

A: The package tsoutliers provides a procedure for the detection of some types of outliers in time series. In this package, the sensitivity can be configured by setting the critical value used in the t-tests.


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Dudley Do-Right
Comedy / Family / Romance
Inept Canadian mountie Dudley Do-Right chases after villian Snidely Whiplash and woos girlfriend Nell Fenwick.
Alex Rocco as Chief
Alfred Molina as Touchstone
Brendan Fraser as Dudley Do-Right
Sarah Jessica Parker as Narrator
Reviewed by ccthemovieman-1 7 / 10 / 10
Dudley Did All Right
This actually wasn't as bad as you might think. It's harmless fluff, silly in many parts but also a movie filled with likable characters and good adult jokes that go over the kids' heads. It's clean stuff: references to other movies and things. It's one of these films you find yourself laughing more than the kids but the next day you really can't remember much that you saw. In other words, you will be entertained but it's not a memorable movie. The horse might be in the running as the most memorable character in the film. Even the villain isn't despicable. He's more cartoon-like than evil. Alfred Molina does a nice job as "Snidely Whiplash." Eric Idle and Sarah Jessica Parker are also good in here. Brendan Fraser, playing the title role, was on a role their for a couple of years, playing these silly, comedic roles and being successful in doing so (i.e. George Of The Jungle, Bedazzled, etc.) Don't dismiss this as totally stupid. It will surprise you. All of us can use a good laugh and this movie provides plenty.
Reviewed by TiminPhoenix 9 / 10 / 10
Silly can be good, just don't expect every film to be the Godfather
This was a silly and funny little movie. Everything from the narrator to the faux Indian tribe was done for laughs and it was clean family worthy viewing. Alfred Molina makes a perfect Snidely Whiplash and how anyone can watch this film and not notice his timing, his interaction with the other actors and not be impressed is beyond me. It's not a bad way to kill 77 minutes.
Reviewed by attikitty 9 / 10 / 10
I thoroughly enjoyed this film.
After reading nothing but terrible reviews of this movie, I finally felt compelled to weigh in. I loved the Jay Ward comics... their irreverence and ability to be entertaining on both an adult and child level. I found the movie sweetly amusing and very loyal to the classic cartoon. All the actors were great in their roles. The writing was clever. I gave it to my twin nephews for their birthday, knowing they will enjoy it and my sister will love it. After reading such dreadful reviews, I watched it twice to make certain I wasn't missing something. NO. It's funny.


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Gateway drugs for the world of Haxe macros.

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## Welcome

This repository aims to be a collection of tutorials, playgrounds and worked examples for using Haxe macros.

They have a reputation for being dark magic.  They're not magic, but they can be a bit hard to learn.  We hope to help with this.

This repo was originally created for a workshop at the WWX Haxe Conference, held in Paris on June 1 2015.

## Pre-requisite knowledge

Macros build on top of several Haxe concepts.  Each of these is a cool enough and powerful enough feature that they're fun to learn (and will empower your coding) all on their own.  If you're not familiar with any of these concepts, I recommend learning each of them first and becoming very familiar before exloring macros further.

  * __Enums__

	(Called "Generalized Algebraic Data Types", or GADTs in some other languages.)  Especially enums that can contain values:

	```haxe
	enum Color {
		Red;
		Green;
		Blue;
		RGB( r:Int, g:Int, b:Int );
		HSV( h:Int, s:Int, v:Int );
	}
	```

	If the above syntax looks weird to you, go learn about enums. They are very cool.

	See http://haxe.org/manual/types-enum-instance.html

  * __Pattern Matching__

	In haxe the `switch` statement can do a lot more than in simple ecmascript languages like JS or AS3.  It's called "Pattern Matching".

	It allows you to switch on enums, objects or arrays:

	```haxe
	switch colour {
		case Red: trace('Red');
		case RGB(red,_,_) if (red>200): trace('Mostly red');
		default: trace('Not red');
	}
	switch [gender,nation] {
		case [Male,French]: trace('He is French!');
		case [Female,German]: trace('She is German!');
		case [Male,nation]: trace('He is from $nation!');
		case [Female,nation]: trace('She is from $nation!');
	}
	switch person {
		case { name:"Jason", age:a }: trace('Jason is $a years old');
		default:
	}
	```

	If this all looks unfamiliar to you, you should definitely check out pattern matching.  It's powerful, and you'll need to use it all the time in macros.

	See http://haxe.org/manual/lf-pattern-matching.html

  * __Conditional Compilation__

	Conditional compilation allows you to change fields or expressions to only appear on a certain target, or if a certain compilation parameter is set (like `-debug`), or in a certain context.

	```haxe
	var platform =
	    #if (js && nodejs) "NodeJS"
		#elseif js "Browser"
		#else "Other" #end;
	```

	If this is unfamiliar to you, go learn about conditional compilation.  You'll find you need to use `#if macro` and `#if !macro` a fair bit.

	See http://haxe.org/manual/lf-condition-compilation.html

  * __Metadata__

	Metadata is annotations you can add to your code, which aren't executed at runtime, but can be inspected using either macros or the `haxe.rtti.Meta` API.

	If you haven't seen code like this:

	```Haxe
	@:route("/articles/$page")
	@inject
	public function( page:String) {}
	```

	then you should read up about metadata.

	See http://haxe.org/manual/lf-metadata.html

## Play Areas

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Simone Biles was named AIPS Athlete of the Year!
08 Jan 2017 at 19:05
Simone Biles is an outstanding gymnast who worked hard and achieved the title of four-time Olympic champion. Recently she has also been named the Best Female Athlete of 2016 by the International Sports Press Association (AIPS), following a poll of journalists from 110 countries.
382 sports journalists took part in voting for champions of this year. Simone Biles, who won four golds and a bronze medal at her first Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, was lucky to earn 15.24% of the votes in women's category.
Biles is the first male or female gymnast to be named as AIPS Best Athlete of the Year; indeed it is the first time any gymnast has even featured in the top three of the poll. For her dazzling successes in Rio, she also received the Associated Press's Athlete of the Year prize as well as the "Champion of the Champions 2016" award from the French sports daily newspaper L'Equipe.
Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt was named AIPS Best Male Athlete of the year for a record sixth time.
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Things We Saw Today: Prince's "Paisley Park" to Open As a Museum in October
By Teresa JusinoAug 25th, 2016, 6:12 pm
image via Brook Harris/Shutterstock
Since Prince's untimely death back in April, fans have created a makeshift memorial outside his home/recording studio in Chanhassen, Minnesota. Now, according to The Verge, Prince's family has announced that Paisley Park will now be a Prince museum that will be open to the public in October. It will be available for tours of his recording facilities, as well as have memorabilia on display and serve only vegetarian food in observance of Prince's strict vegetarian diet. Says his sister Tyka,"Opening Paisley Park is something that Prince always wanted to do and was actively working on." It's nice to know that Prince fans will always be able to remember him by being allowed to spend time where he made his brilliant music.
Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Aliens with this Ripley/Newt action figure 2-pack. (via Geek Alert)
Explore.org knows what we all want to see. Namely, cute animals doing cute animal things. Check out their bear live feed, their great dane nursery live feed, and their osprey nest live feed. (via Boing Boing)
The Fan2Sea Cruise is like Comic-Con on a boat. This could either be the best, or the worst thing ever. (via Comic Book Resources)
Check out this awesome cosplay from Sri Lanka's Comic Con! It's only in its second year, but these fans are totally on point! (via Kotaku)
Hold my medals, @Bharper3407! @katieledecky #BallparkCamhttps://t.co/pRlcRpfoPI
— MLB Network (@MLBNetwork) August 24, 2016
Bryce Harper of the Washington Nationals giddily held Katie Ledecky's Olympic medals as she threw the first pitch at last night's game. (via The Daily Dot)
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Galicia has registered 1,189 coronavirus infections on the last day, the maximum of the pandemic, and leaves 10,215 active cases in the community, very close to the peak of November 7. The spread of the virus in Catalonia continues rampant, with 4,473 infected, while the region has reported another 122 deaths. These data confirm the "very worrying" situation of the health crisis, as described by the Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, who anticipated "hard weeks" although he ruled out a home confinement. On Wednesday, Spain reached 38,869 new daily cases, the highest figure of the epidemic, and 195 deaths. The cumulative incidence continues to rise, reaching 492 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days. Germany has registered 1,244 deaths from coronavirus in one day this Thursday, the highest number of the pandemic, according to the Robert Koch Institute. In addition, 25,164 people have been infected in the last 24 hours. The country is heading for a further extension of restrictions beyond January 31, Health Minister Jens Spahn announced on Wednesday. The virulence of the third wave hits all of Europe. Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands or Portugal have extended their restrictions, while the United Kingdom added its worst daily death data, 1,564 deaths, and reported 47,525 positives. In China, health authorities have reported one death from coronavirus, the first in eight months, and 138 new infections. This Thursday, a team of experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) arrives in Wuhan to investigate the origins of the virus.
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Research has shown that people with more grey matter score high on cognitive tests. A new study found the gene that links the thickness of grey matter with intelligence.
The study, conducted by researchers at King's College London and colleagues, could help understand why some people have learning disabilities.
Scientists have been trying for years to find the root of intelligence. The prefrontal lobe- the part of brain right behind the forehead- was earlier thought to be associated with intelligence. However, recent research in neuroscience is now pointing towards the outermost layer of the brain- the cerebral cortex or grey matter- as the site for intelligence.
Other researchers found a link between thickness of this region and intelligence. The present study went a step ahead and found a gene variant that was responsible for this link.
Data for the study came from children enrolled in the IMAGEN cohort. Researchers collected DNA samples and looked at brain scans of 1,583 healthy 14-year-old teenagers. Study participants also underwent several cognitive tests.
"We wanted to find out how structural differences in the brain relate to differences in intellectual ability. The genetic variation we identified is linked to synaptic plasticity - how neurons communicate. This may help us understand what happens at a neuronal level in certain forms of intellectual impairments, where the ability of the neurons to communicate effectively is somehow compromised," Dr Sylvane Desrivières, from King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry and lead author of the study, said.
Note that the gene accounts for about 0.5 percent of the variation in intelligence, meaning that there are several other factors that might explain why some people are smarter than others.
"It's important to point out that intelligence is influenced by many genetic and environmental factors. The gene we identified only explains a tiny proportion of the differences in intellectual ability, so it's by no means a 'gene for intelligence'," Desrivières said in a news release.
Researchers looked at some 54,000 genetic variants that are known to be involved in brain development. They found that teenagers that carried one gene variant were more likely to have a thinner cortex in left part of the brain. These adolescents even performed poorly on various cognitive tests.
This particular variant in NPTN gene is associated with building neuronal synapses. In other words, the gene variant doesn't let different parts of the brain "talk" and synchronize tasks, leading to poorer cognitive performance.
Researchers also used a mouse model to study the effects of the NTPN gene in brain activity. They found that the left hemisphere of the brain was more likely to be affected by the variant than the right hemisphere.
The study might help researchers understand the mechanism associated with brain disorders such as autism and schizophrenia.


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8500 BC: Chinese history tells that hemp was used for fibre, oil, and as medicine.
3727 BC: Cannabis called a "superior" herb in the world's first medical text, Shen Nung's Pen Ts'ao, in China.
2700 BC: The oldest complete human body ever found was wearing a hemp blouse with a silk like quality. The body had been buried by ice for four thousand years, and was exposed by a heat wave.
2000 B.C. - 1400 B.C. Cannabis mentioned in the Atharvaveda (Science of Charms) as "sacred grass". Refered to as bhang or bhanga. The legend of Shiva, Lord of Bhang
1550BC: The Ebers Papyrus (named after George Ebers) is an ancient Egyptian medical text (era 1,550 BC). It's the oldest known (complete) surviving medical text book still in existence, and mentions medical marihuana (known then as Sum-Sum-et).
1500 BC: Cannabis-using Scythians sweep through Europe and Asia, settle down everywhere, and invent the scythe.
700 B.C. - 600 B.C. The Zoroastrian Zend-Avesta, an ancient Persian religious text of several hundred volumes, and said to have been written by Zarathustra (Zoroaster), refers to bhang as Zoroaster's "good narcotic"
500 BC: Gautama Buddha survives by eating hempseed.
450 BC: Hemp was being cultivated in the middle east for the same purposes as China. Herodotus records Scythians and Thracians as consuming cannabis and making fine linens of hemp. Cannabis was thought to be an Indo-European word specifically of Scythian Origin. The Scythians are considered largely responsible for the spread of cannabis into Europe.
Herodotus, an early Greek ethnographer, in the 5th Century BC wrote of the Scythians and their use of cannabis.
300 BC: Carthage and Rome struggle for political and commercial power over hemp and spice trade routes in Mediterranean.
100 BC: Paper made from hemp and mulberry is invented in China.
1 AD: Recognised birth year of Jesus Christ.
Dioscorides100 AD: Roman surgeon Dioscorides names the plant cannabis sativa and describes various medicinal uses.
Pliny tells of industrial uses and writes a manual on farming hemp.
390 AD: A 14 year old girl dies in childbirth near Jerusalem. In 1993 researchers find residue of the drug with the skeleton of the girl.The researchers said the marijuana probably was used by a mid-wife trying to speed the birth, as well as ease the pain. "Until now," the researchers wrote in a letter to the journal Nature, "physical evidence of cannabis (marijuana) use in the ancient Middle East has not yet been obtained."
The seven researchers -- from Hebrew University, the Israel Antiquities Authority and the National Police Headquarters forensic division -- said references to marijuana as a medicine are seen as far back as 1,600 B.C. in Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek and Roman writings. But physical evidence that the hemp weed, cannabis sativa, was used for that purpose had been missing.
500 AD: First botanical drawing of hemp in Constantinopolitanus. (Latinised version of Constantinople, then a centre of learning.)
600 AD: Germans, Franks, Vikings, etc. all use hemp fibre.
1000 AD approx: Hemp was first introduced into Europe, and by the sixteenth century it was known to be the most widely cultivated crop in the world producing rope, sails, cloth, fuel, paper, paint, food and medicine. The English word 'hempe' first listed in a dictionary.
1090 AD: The Assassin movement, called the "new propaganda" by its members, was inaugurated by al-Hasan ibn-al-Sabbah (died in 1124), probably a Persian from Tus, who claimed descent from the Himyarite kings of South Arabia. The motives were evidently personal ambition and desire for vengeance on the part of the heresiarch." (heresiarch: leader of heretical group) "As a young man in al-Rayy, al-Hassan received instruction in the Batinite system, and after spending a year and a half in Egypt returned to his native land as a Fatimid missionary. Here in 1090 he gained possession of the strong mountain fortress Alamut, north-west of Qazwin. Strategically situated on an extension of the Alburz chain, 10200 feet above sea level, and on the difficult but shortest road between the shores of the Caspian and the Persian highlands, this "eagle's nest," as the name probably means, gave ibn-al-Sabbah and his successors a central stronghold of primary importance. Its possession was the first historical fact in the life of the new order.
From Alamut the grand master with his disciples made surprise raids in various directions which netted other fortresses. In pursuit of their ends they made free and treacherous use of the dagger, reducing assassination to an art. Their secret organization, based on Ismailite antecedents, developed an agnosticism which aimed to emancipate the initiate from the trammels of doctrine, enlightened him as to the superfluity of prophets and encouraged him to believe nothing and dare all. Below the grand master stood the grand priors, each in charge of a particular district. After these came the ordinary propagandists. The lowest degree of the order comprised the "fida'is", who stood ready to execute whatever orders the grand master issued. A graphic, though late and secondhad, description of the method by which the master of Alamut is said to have hypnotized his "self-sacrificing ones" with the use of hashish has come down to us from Marco Polo, who passed in that neighborhood in 1271 or 1272. After describing in glowing terms the magnificent garden surrounding the elegant pavilions and palaces built by the grand master at Alamut, Polo proceeds:
"Now no man was allowed to enter the Garden save those whom he intended to be his Ashishin. There was a fortress at the entrance to the Garden, strong enough to resist all the world, and there was no other way to get in. He kept at his Court a number of the youths of the country, from twelve to twenty years of age, such as had a taste for soldiering... Then he would introduce them into his Garden, some four, or six, or ten at a time, having first made them drink a certain potion which cast them into a deep sleep, and then causing them to be lifted and carried in. So when they awoke they found themselves in the Garden.
"When therefore they awoke, and found themselves in a place so charming, they deemed that it was Paradise in very truth. And the ladies and damsels dallied with them to their hearts' content...
"So when the Old Man would have any prince slain, he would say to such a youth: 'Go thou and slay So and So; and when thou returnest my Angels shall bear thee into Paradise. And shouldst thou die, natheless even so will I send my Angels to carry thee back into Paradise.'"
(from 'The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian', translated by Henry Yule, London, 1875.)
The Assassination in 1092 of the illustrious vizir of the Saljug sultanate, Nizam-al-Mulk, by a fida'i disguised as a Sufi, was the first of a series of mysterious murders which plunged the Muslim world into terror. When in the same year the Saljug Sultan Malikshah bestirred himself and sent a disciplinary force against the fortress, its garrison made a night sortie and repelled the besieging army. Other attempts by caliphs and sultans proved equally futile until finally the Mongolian Hulagu, who destroyed the caliphate, seized the fortress in 1256 together with its subsidary castles in Persia. Since the Assassin books and records were destroyed, our information about this strange and spectacular order is derived mainly from hostile sources.
As early as the last years of the eleventh century the Assassins had succeeded in setting firm foot in Syria and winning as convert the Saljug prince of Aleppo, Ridwan ibn-Tutush (died in 1113). By 1140 they had captured the hill fortress of Masyad and many others in northern Syria, including al-Kahf, al-Qadmus and al-'Ullayqah. Even Shayzar (modern Sayjar) on the Orontes was temporarily occupied by the Assassins, whom Usamah calls Isma'ilites. One of their most famous masters in Syria was Rachid-al-Din Sinan (died in 1192), who resided at Masyad and bore the title 'shakkh al-jabal', translated by the Crusades' chroniclers as "the old man of the mountain". It was Rashid's henchmen who struck awe and terror into the hearts of the Crusaders. After the capture of Masyad in 1260 by the Mongols, the Mamluk Sultan Baybars in 1272 dealt the Syrian Assassins the final blow. Since then the Assassins have been sparsely scattered through northern Syria, Persia, 'Uman, Zanzibar, and especially India, where they number about 150000 and go by the name of Thojas or Mowlas. They all acknowledge as titular head the Aga Khan of Bombay, who claims descent through the last grand master of Alamut from Isma'il, the seventh imam, receives over a tenth of the revenues of his followers, even in Syria, and spends most of his time as a sportsman between Paris and London.
Credit for entry above: THE ASSASSINS by Philip K. Hitti
From _The Book of Grass: An Anthology on Indian Hemp_, edited by George Andrews and Simon Vinkenoog.
1150 AD: Moslems use hemp to start Europe's first paper mill. Most paper is made from hemp for the next 700 years.
1155 AD - 1221 AD: Persian legend of the Sufi master Sheik Haidar's of Khorasan's personal discovery of Cannabis and it's subsequent spread to Iraq, Bahrain, Egypt and Syria. Another of the earliest written narratives of the use of Cannabis as an inebriant.
1271 AD: The eating of Hemp was so well known that Marco Polo described its consumption in the secret order of Hashishins, who used the narcotic to fool initiates into thinking they had experienced the afterlife. The Assassins were an early terrorist group. These were people with serious political motivation. (see 1090 AD) Note that the drugs were given to stupify, so that initiates would awaken in a fake paradise, and believe the master had transported them there through a potion. The cannabis was not a reward or incitement, just a means of rendering initiates unconscious.
First time reports of cannabis have been brought to the attention of Europe.
Age of Rigging1492 AD: Hempen sails, caulking and rigging ignite age of discovery and help Columbus and his ships reach America. Many puritans follow over the next few centuries.
1545: Hemp agriculture crosses the continent overland to Chile. Dutch achieve Golden Age through hemp commerce. Explorers find 'wilde hempe' in North America.
1564: King Phillip of Spain orders hemp grown throughout his empire, from modern-day Argentina to Oregon.
1616-1654: Nicholas Culpepper (1616-1654), listed a variety of medical uses of the common european hemp (Cannabis sativa), including anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and antiparasitic activity
1620: Mayflower carried the Pilgrim Fathers to New Plymouth. America beckons to many religious groups looking for a new start for their followers to escape persecution or worldliness.
1630: John Winthrop and many Puritans migrate to America
1631: Hemp used as money throughout American colonies.
1636: Harvard founded by Puritans
1762: In the U.S. the state of Virginia rewarded farmers with bounties for hemp culture and manufacture, and imposed penalties upon those who did not produce it. George Washington grew hemp for fibre and recreational use, and Thomas Jefferson acquired the first American patent for his hemp break, a device used to separate the hemp stalk into usable hurds and fiber with greater speed than the retting of past. Without hemp America could not have successfully waged the revolution, and for the next one hundred and fifty years hemp enjoyed the position as America's top cash crop.
1772: Samuel Taylor "Estese" Coleridge born in England. Writes beautiful poetry, but spends his life battling opium addiction. (1772-1834)
1807: Czar Alexander of Russia was forced to sign the treaty of Tilser, which cut off all legal Russian trade with Great Britain, its allies, or any other neutral nation ship acting as agents for Great Britain. Napoleon hoped to stop Russian hemp from reaching England, thereby destroying Britains navy by forcing it to cannibalise sails, ropes and rigging from other ships; Napoleon belived that Britain, starved of hemp, would be forced to end its blockade of France and the continent. As a result of Napoleons actions, hemp, which normally sold at twenty five pounds per tonne, reached a price of one hundred and eighteen pounds per tonne in 1808.
Hamme1818: The old (left) coat of arms for the Belgian town of Hamme was granted on January 31, 1818 and confirmed on May 13, 1913. The arms show on the right half a branch of a hemp plant and on the left half a branch of a flax plant (with blue flower). Both were important crops in the early 19th century. Hemp was used for ropes, flax for linen.
1822: Thomas De Quincy published "Confessions of an English Opium Eater", which became his masterpiece. In addition, he wrote numerous essays on political, social, critical, historical and philosophical subjects.
1839: The first Opium War between Great Britain and China. Early in the 19th cent., British merchants began smuggling opium into China in order to balance their purchases of tea for export to Britain. In 1839, China enforced its prohibitions on the importation of opium by destroying at Guangzhou (Canton) a large quantity of opium confiscated from British merchants. Great Britain, which had been looking to end China's restrictions on foreign trade, responded by sending gunboats to attack several Chinese coastal cities. China, unable to withstand modern arms, was defeated and forced to sign the Treaty of Nanjing (1842) and the British Supplementary Treaty of the Bogue (1843). These provided that the ports of Guangzhou, Jinmen, Fuzhou, Ningbo, and Shanghai should be open to British trade and residence; in addition Hong Kong was ceded to the British. Within a few years other Western powers signed similar treaties with China and received commercial and residential privileges, and the Western domination of China's treaty ports began.
It wasn't until O'Shaughnessy (a Scottish doctor, who while in India had learned about Cannabis from local Mohammedan and Hindu physicians) returned from the Bengal (1839) and published his findings, that the western world begin to take notice of medical cannabis. At a time when western medicine had few if any reliable drugs, here was an analgesic (painkiller), a sedative and antispasmodic agent all in one. And best of all, it had a very low toxicity rate (to this day no one has died from its use), and could be grown almost anywhere in commercial quantities. It spread throughout the western world, and within a few years would be a common medical ingredient.
1842: Baudelaire, 19th century French poet, translator, and literary and art critic, received his inheritance in April 1842 and rapidly proceeded to dissipate it on the lifestyle of a dandified man of letters, spending freely on clothes, books, paintings, expensive food and wines, and, not least, hashish and opium, which he first experimented with in his Paris apartment at the Hotel Pimodan (now the Hotel Lauzun) on the Saint-Louis between 1843 and 1845.
1847: Mormons settle in Utah under Brigham Young, after years of moving around since beginning in New York with Joseph Smith's vision around 1830.
1850: Tree-pulp papermaking becomes more cost-effective than hemp through the rise of assembly line manufacturing methods.
Hemp continues to be used for rope, birdseed, and other products. Constant efforts to improve hemp and hemp products by producers and others.
The Gold Rush brings many Chinese. Opium seen as a Chinese drug. Racism enters the equation.
Opium War1856: The second Opium War broke out following an allegedly illegal Chinese search of a British-registered ship, the Arrow, in Guangzhou. British and French troops took Guangzhou and Tianjin and compelled the Chinese to accept the treaties of Tianjin (1858), to which France, Russia, and the United States were also party. China agreed to open 11 more ports, permit foreign legations in Beijing, sanction Christian missionary activity, and legalize the import of opium. China's subsequent attempt to block the entry of diplomats into Beijing as well as Britain's determination to enforce the new treaty terms led to a renewal of the war in 1859. This time the British and French occupied Beijing and burned the imperial summer palace (Yuan ming yuan). The Beijing conventions of 1860, by which China was forced to reaffirm the terms of the Treaty of Tianjin and make additional concessions, concluded the hostilities.
Opium in anglo-saxon countries was sometimes referred to as "a filthy Chinese practice". This seems highly hypocritical when it was the west that forced Opium upon them to maintain Tea supplies.
Alice1865: "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" was published in 1865, by Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an English writer and brilliant mathematician, under the pen-name he had first used some nine years earlier - Lewis Carroll. "Through the Looking Glass" followed.Although he spent so much of his life in the academic environment, Dodgson's real passions were always artistic. He loved the theatre and the company of 'theatricals'. He loved artists and their work. He courted the bohemian life in a way that sometimes compromised the required dignity of his position as an Oxford don. Earlier, in 1861 he had become a deacon of the Anglican church, but, despite his religious background, and in direct defiance of the laws of his college, he refused to become a priest. Through the image of the caterpillar with a hookah he will forever be associated with cannabis.
1869: The Prohibition Party is formed. Gerrit Smith, twice Abolitionist candidate for President, an associate of John Brown, and a crusading prohibitionist, declares: "Our involuntary slaves are set free, but our millions of voluntary slaves still clang their chains. The lot of the literal slave, of him whom others have enslaved, is indeed a hard one; nevertheless, it is a paradise compared with the lot of him who has enslaved himself to alcohol." [Quoted in Sinclar, op. cit. pp. 83-84]
1874: The Woman's Christian Temperance Union is founded in Cleveland. In 1883, Frances Willard a leader of the W.C.T.U. forms the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
1882: Laws in the United States, and the world, making "temperance education" a part of the required course in public schools are enacted.
The Personal Liberty League of the United States is founded to oppose the increasing momentum of movements for compulsory abstinence from alcohol. [Catlin, op. cit. p. 114]
1886: Congress makes temperance education mandatory in the District of Columbia, and in territorial, military, and naval schools. By 1900, all the states have similar laws. [Crafts et. al., op. cit. p. 72]
Queen Victoria1890:Queen Victoria"s personal physician, J.R. Reynolds described it in 1890 as "One of the most valuable medicines we possess." In another Lancet article published in 1890, he described the use of cannabis indica for treating insomnia in the senile, alcoholic delerium, neuralgia, migraine, spastic paralysis, and convulsions. He allegedly prescribed tincture of cannabis to Queen Victoria.herself for the treatment of menstrual cramps. Cannabis tincture and an extract made from resin were available from Peter Squire of Oxford St in 1864, and wholesale through the Society of Apothecaries by 1871. Chemists extracted stuff they called cannabene, cannabin tannin, cannabinnene etc but had no idea which, if any, was the "active ingredient" until cannabinol was isolated in 1895. THC was not isolated until 1964.
1893: German inventor Rudolph Diesel published a paper entitled "The Theory and Construction of a Rational Heat Engine," which described an engine in which air is compressed by a piston to a very high pressure, causing a high temperature. Fuel is then injected and ignited by the compression temperature. Intended fuel is vegetable and seed oils. Vision of a "people's engine" Petrochemical industry does not encourage this view, and see's alternative use of seed oils instead of gasoline as threat to future sales.
1894:The Indian Hemp Drugs Commission Report (1894) to the British government, comprising some seven volumes and 3,281 pages, is by far the most complete and systematic study of marijuana undertaken to date. Because of the rarity and, perhaps, the formidable size of this document, the wealth of information contained in it has not found its way into contemporary writings on this subject. This is indeed unfortunate, as many of the issues concerning marijuana being argued in the United States today were dealt with in the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission Report.
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/effects.htm
"Viewing the subject generally, it may be added that the moderate use of these drugs is the rule, and that the excessive use is comparatively exceptional. The moderate use practically produces no ill effects. In all but the most exceptional cases, the injury from habitual moderate use is not appreciable. The excessive use may certainly be accepted as very injurious, though it must be admitted that in many excessive consumers the injury is not clearly marked. The injury done by the excessive use is, however, confined almost exclusively to the consumer himself; the effect on society is rarely appreciable. It has been the most striking feature in this inquiry to find how little the effects of hemp drugs have obtruded themselves on observation. The large number of witnesses of all classes who professed never to have seen these effects, the vague statements made by many who professed to have observed them, the very few witnesses who could so recall a case as to give any definite account of it, and the manner in which a large proportion of these cases broke down on the first attempt to examine them, are facts which combine to show most clearly how little injury society has hitherto sustained from hemp drugs " : From the report.
The English approach was that if people were doing something you didn't want them to, that wasn't covered by the commandments, you taxed it and made it expensive. Putting them in jail would only cost the government to no benefit.
1895: Cannabinols isolated and extracted.
1900: Diesel runs his engine on peanut oil at World's Fair.
1909: Shanghai International Opium Conference was held at the insistence of USA, supported by European powers, China, Japan, Siam and Persia.
1910: The Foster Antinarcotic Bill of 1910, the first of a series of draft statutes that led to the Harrison Act, included cannabis. Only the vigorous lobbying of the wholesale drug industry prevented its appearance in the final legislation.
1911: An Opium Conference at the Hague drafted the first treaty which attempted to control opium and cocaine through world wide agreement. In that year, Henry Finger, a California druggist newly appointed as a delegate to the Hague conference wanted the US delegation to propose cannabis control because of California's problem with a large influx of Hindoos demanding cannabis indica but was told that Italy already had a proposal.( See http://www.cfdp.ca/giffen.htm)
1912: Hague International Convention on Narcotics - to control the production and distribution of raw and prepared opium (morphine and cocaine); it required parties to Convention to examine the possibility of making it a penal offence to be in illegal possession of drugs covered by the treaty.'
1915: Utah passed the first state anti-marijuana law. Mormons who had gone to Mexico in 1910 returned smoking marijuana. It was later outlawed in that state as a result of the Utah legislature enacting all Mormon religious prohibitions as criminal laws. Thus Utah first state to enact laws against use of marijuana.
1917: George W. Schlicten patented the Hemp Decorticator; a farm-machine that mechanically separates the fibre in the Hemp stalk. Heralds serious threat to wood pulping industry.
1938 Assassin of Youth1920: In England the Dangerous Drugs Act came into force. Of interest here is that while the Americans also outlawed the use of heroin for medical purposes, the English upheld this usage and even found the provision of opiates, in this case heroin, to addicts to be acceptable medical practice.
The Hague treaty of 1912 was 'as leaky as a sieve' because it allowed the states to determine for themselves when and how they would fulfil their obligations with regard to opium, which of course kept the use of opium legal until that time. The chemical derivatives did, however, fall under this commitment: that their use was illegal, making these substances more than opium, the object of the battle. To make this battle more effective the League of Nations held two conferences which led to two Geneva Conventions: one of 11 February and one on 19 February 1925.
The Conspiracy View
Also around this time,William Randolph Hearst, media mogul, billionaire and model for Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane", campaigns against new drug "marijuana". Most didn't realise Hemp was the same thing. His aggressive efforts to demonize cannabis were so effective, they continue to colour popular opinion today.
Hearst owned a good deal of timber acreage; one might say that he had the monopoly on this market. He also had paper-mill holdings, and a national network of newspapers and magazines to spread wildly inaccurate and sensational stories of the evils of cannabis or "marihuana". Other tabloids jumped on the bandwagon, printing similar stories about crazed mexicans and negros committing hienous crimes under the influence of marihuana.
The sheer number of newspapers, tabloids, magazines and film reels that Hearst controlled enabled him to quickly and effectively inundate American media with his propaganda. Hearst preyed on existing prejudices by associating cannabis with Mexican workers who he said threatened to steal American jobs and also African-Americans. With no strong voice to the contrary, Hearst was persuasive in his appeal to prejudice.
Hearst was not alone in his efforts to demonize hemp.
The new techniques would also make hemp a more viable option for fabric and plastics. DuPont chemicals, which at this time specialized in the chemical manufacturing of synthetic fibre and plastics, and chemicals used in the process of pulping paper might have seen hemp products as competition.
It was said Hearst and Lammont DuPont had a multi-million dollar deal in the works for a joint papermaking venture. These two moguls, together with DuPont's banker, Andrew Mellon, combined and co-ordinated their efforts to demonize "marijuana".
Hearst's "yellow journalism" campaign (so called because the paper developed through his and DuPont's methods aged and yellowed rapidly) and the 1930 appointment of Mellon's nephew-in-law, Harry J. Anslinger, to Commissioner of the newly created Federal Bureau of Narcotics put them in control of US Federal drugs policy. Anslinger was a committed prohibitionist.
The Race and Culture War View
Pot activist Jack Herer's book The Emperor Wears No Clothes is the prime source for the hemp-conspiracy theory. It alleges that in the mid-1930s, when the new mechanical hemp fiber stripping machines to conserve hemp's high-cellulose pulp finally became state of the art, available and affordable, Hearst, with enormous holdings in timber acreage and investments in paper manufacturing, stood to lose billions of dollars and perhaps go bankrupt. Meanwhile, DuPont in 1937 had just patented nylon and a new sulfate/sulfite process for making paper from wood pulp - so if hemp had not been made illegal, 80 percent of DuPont's business would never have materialized.
Herer, a somewhat cantankerous former marijuana-pipe salesman, deserves a lot of credit for his cannabis activism. He was a dedicated grass-roots agitator for pot legalization during the late 1980s, perhaps the most herb-hostile time in recent history. Despite - an omnivorous conglomeration of newspaper clippings and historical documents about hemp and marijuana, held together by Herer's cannabis evangelism and fiery screeds against prohibition - has been a bible for many pot activists. Unearthing a 1916 Department of Agriculture bulletin about hemp paper and a World War II short film that exhorted American farmers to grow Hemp for Victory, Herer more than anyone else revived the idea that the cannabis plant was useful for purposes besides getting high.
Twentieth-century cannabis prohibition first reared its head in countries where white minorities ruled black majorities: South Africa, where its known as dagga, banned it in 1911, and Jamaica, then a British colony, outlawed ganja in 1913. They were followed by Canada, Britain and New Zealand, which added cannabis to their lists of illegal narcotics in the 1920s. Canada's pot law was enacted in 1923, several years before there were any reports of people actually smoking it there. It was largely the brainchild of Emily F. Murphy, a feminist but racist judge who wrote anti-Asian, anti-marijuana rants under the pseudonym Janey Canuck. All of this happened before Hearst, DuPont, and Anslinger appeared, so they did not cause prohibition, even if they may have exploited it.
In the United States, marijuana prohibition began partly as a throw-in on laws restricting opiates and cocaine to prescription-only use, and partly in Southern and Western states and cities where blacks and Mexican immigrants were smoking it. Missouri outlawed opium and hashish dens in 1889, but did not actually prohibit cannabis until 1935. Massachusetts began restricting cannabis in its 1911 pharmacy law, and three other New England states followed in the next seven years.
The hemp-conspiracy theory blames that law on Hearst and DuPont's plot to suppress hemp paper and cloth. The theory is that the invention of a hemp processor known as the decorticator made it easier, faster and much more cost-effective to extract hemp fiber from the stalks. In February 1938, Popular Mechanics hailed hemp as the New Billion Dollar Crop. In response, Hearst and DuPont, scared by the prospect of hemp's resurrection as a competitor for their products, schemed to eliminate the plant.
However, The Emperor makes only three specific claims to support that theory. One is the anti-marijuana propagandizing of the Hearst newspapers. Second, it claims that Anslinger's anti-pot crusade was on behalf of Pittsburgh banker Andrew Mellon, who supposedly was DuPont's chief financial backer, lending the company the funds it needed to purchase General Motors in the 1920s. And finally, The Emperor argues that DuPont anticipated the Marihuana Tax Act in its 1937 annual report.


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Today marks the start of Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK. From anxiety and depression to phobias and stress, we can all be caught out by the ups and downs of life and lack the tools to cope. In fact, in the UK, 1 in 4 people likely to experience some kind of mental health problem during the course of the year (1) and 2001 figures from the WHO (2) show that around "450 million people... suffer from such conditions, placing mental disorders among the leading causes of ill-health and disability worldwide."
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Carel Reyniersz (Amsterdam, 1604 — Jacarta, 19 de maio de 1653) foi governador-geral das Índias Orientais Neerlandesas, de 1650 a 1653.

Bibliografia
Encyclopaedie van Nederlandsch-Indië, Part N-Soek
L.P. van Putten, Ambitie en onvermogen : gouverneurs-generaal van Nederlands-Indië 1610-1796. 2002

Mortos em 1653
Governadores-gerais das Índias Orientais Neerlandesas
Naturais de Amsterdã

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I would like Alfresco to auto-generate user spaces based on a template (copy of a template space from the datadictionary) when a users logins-in for the first time.
Has anybody any experience in how to do this?
This is on the task list and due for 1.4.
For 1.4 it was intended that when people were auto created there would be a pluggable mechanism for building a home space. This could be implemented to do anything - refer to an existing space, build a space based on user id, do something more complicated as described in the inital post.
Support for this is patched into the 1.4 enterprise code. Login can cause homespace creation as can LDAP import. There are two standard providers, one to use existing folders and one to create them. Both allow user permissions to be set. Creation can be simple or from a template and can set owner properties and additional permissions. You can have different configurations for different LDAP imports.
It will be in the community line at some point.
If you need this in the short term you will need support or to roll it yourself.
I am evaluating 1.4.0Preview2 on Windows.
When I logon alfresco, my home folde was created under Company Home space automatically. That works.
Could you tell me how you specify the root spaces to hold the new spaces ? For example, use Company Home/Users as the parent space.


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North of West Palm Beach and Fort Pierce, the snorkeling at Jaycee Park is well known for its reef in 15 feet of water that provides habitat for eels, lobsters and reef fish including surgeonfish, tangs and sergeant majors. About 400 feet further beyond the first reef, there is a second reef structure which provides habitat to more diverse marine life. A dive flag is...
North of West Palm Beach and Fort Pierce, the snorkeling at Jaycee Park is well known for its reef in 15 feet of water that provides habitat for eels, lobsters and reef fish including surgeonfish, tangs and sergeant majors. About 400 feet further beyond the first reef, there is a second reef structure which provides habitat to more diverse marine life. A dive flag is highly recommended. To reach the snorkeling in southeast Florida by air, there are several options. The most popular option is to fly into Miami International Airport (MIA), which is served by all major US and international airlines. Also nearby, a potentially lower cost option is to fly into Ft Lauderdale airport (FLL). From either of these airports, you can rent a car to drive to the dive site, but watch out for automated cash-less toll highways along the way.
Overall, Jaycee Park is the 17th most popular snorkel dive spot of all 24 snorkeling dives in Florida Southeast. Several of the better snorkeling spots are nearby Jaycee Park including Peanut Island, Coral Cove Park, Bathtub Reef, Ocean Reef Park, Fort Pierce Inlet State Park and Riviera City Beach.
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If we agree philosophically with the idea of serving children in the least restrictive environment possible, then it follows that we should work very hard not to place children who don't belong in special education into special education programs. The trouble, of course, is that despite seemingly objective definitions and classification rubrics, the number of students placed in special education continues to be a highly subjective and even political decision.
It starts with even the most basic question: how many children should be placed in special education? Nationally, using National Center for Education Statistics data from 2008, 13.4% of students between the ages of 3 and 21 are served in special education programs. One quick way to measure special education overplacement in a medium-sized or large school district would be to say that if they have numbers that are significantly above the national average that they are placing too many students in special education. It is also easy to blame schools and districts that lie outside the norm as being too quick to place students in special education.
Of course things are never quite that easy. Many people do not understand the role that states play in setting the context for special education placement. When you look across states, some states place nearly twice as many students (~20%) in special education as other states (~10%). The difference isn't random either. States which place constitutional limits on taxes or which are fiscally conservative in their policies are far more likely to have fewer special education students than states with a strong history of funding social policies.
When states set up funding systems that reward districts with additional resources every time they place another student in special education, not surprisingly, it appears to encourage more special education students. Dollar-starved states, such as California, place a cap on the percentage of special education students they are willing to provide funds for. It should come as no surprise that student placements stop as soon as the state stops providing additional money for more special education placements.
In some localities, we have found that special education placements follow racial patterns. In one Midwestern district, special education placements spiked among adolescent African American males. A large percentage of these teens were placed in special education having been referred by teachers and diagnosed as having emotionally disturbed behavior.
While special education dollars (about $50 billion nationally) can do good things for students where placements are appropriate and service models are well thought out, state legislatures and departments of education need to understand that allowing districts to place more and more students into special education programs does not actually improve education outcomes, not even for the students placed therein. Not only is the outlook for students coming out of special education particularly bleak, over-placement saps scarce dollars that might be used for more cost-effective and less regulated ways of serving students who are slightly behind their peers.
States: States, too, should establish a funding cap, a level of placement in special education above which they refuse to provide more state dollars for special education placements. Districts that wish to place more students in special education can do so but will need to raise local funds to support these students. As in California, the state can establish a reserve for small districts or for those rare cases where it is clear that the percentage of students who need special services is higher than in other localities. In addition, states need to provide funding for support services for struggling students who do not meet requirements for placement in special education programs.
Districts and schools: Local districts and schools should take care to establish oversight to reduce unnecessary placements in special education and to ensure that certain subsets of populations are not being placed into special education disproportionately.
To some, it may feel strange to talk about improving educational opportunities for struggling students by keeping them out of a program that provides additional academic supports. The reality is that we do students no favors by placing them needlessly into special education. Research suggests that students benefit from high expectations and a rigorous curriculum. Students placed in special education, by contrast, underperform their peers even when we compare them to students who began at a similar place but were not given special education services. The dollars saved by not overenrolling students in special education can be used to provide services that are less rigidly regulated.


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Il porto del Puntone di Scarlino è il porto dell'omonima località balneare del comune di Scarlino.

Storia
La presenza di un porto nella baia di Portiglioni è documentata dalla fine del III secolo a.C.: qui sarebbe stato localizzato il Portus Scabris citato da Tito Livio, attivo nel commercio del minerale ferroso e altri beni dell'isola d'Elba. In seguito alla caduta dell'impero romano, lo scalo andò incontro a un progressivo degrado, ma risulta tuttavia ancora utilizzato. Nonostante lo spopolamento che portò all'abbandono dell'area, a causa dell'impaludamento del lago di Scarlino e la diffusione della malaria, nel XVIII secolo il porticciolo è ancora utilizzato come scalo da piccoli bastimenti.

Il moderno scalo portuale turistico venne inaugurato nel 2003. I numerosi reperti archeologici rinvenuti durante le operazioni di costruzione del porto sono andati a costituire il nucleo principale del Museo archeologico di Portus Scabris.

Caratteristiche
Il porto dispone di 960 posti barca (580 posti nella marina e 380 lungo il porto-canale), da 10 a 36 metri, con pescaggio fino a 4 metri. Nella struttura principale del porto, oltre che varie attività ricettive, sono ospitati lo Yacht Service e il Club Nautico di Scarlino.

Di fronte all'ingresso del porto è stato collocato il 2 settembre 2007 un cippo commemorativo con bassorilievo raffigurante Giuseppe Garibaldi, voluto dall'associazione Il Risveglio di Cala Martina a ricordo degli eventi dell'estate 1849 che videro il condottiero imbarcarsi nella vicina cala Martina.

Note

Bibliografia

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Porti della provincia di Grosseto
Scarlino


I was interested to see mention of Dave Rees Rochdale Mk 2 in the last magazine, PMA 134. It just so happens that the car was out on the Slverstone tarmac once again during the 750MC festival driven by The late Dave rees's wife Jean.
I am very familiar with this car which was re-bodied by a good friend of mine Dave Gregson in the mid 1980's, and it just so happens that I am currently custodian of the original Rochdale Mk2 body from PMA 134.
I raced against Jean for a number of years in my own Rochdale Mk2 inspired Austin Seven, which we built many years ago, this car also carries a Gregson body.
We are currently getting Mike Faloon's re-creation of the Dave Rees Mk2 ready to take to Manchester for the ROC stand later this week. The picture shows the car as it was in the early 1950's with Dave at the wheel.
This one is Dave and his brother in the paddock at an unknown venue, again early 1950's.
The picture below shows Mike's Rochdale Mk2 bodied Austin Seven special at the Manchester classic car show earlier this month.
Also in the picture are Roger's Mk6 (which won classic car weekly best of show) and Les's GT. I have to say congratulations to Roger for his well earned best of show, and well done to Les for organising the stand.
It would seem that finaly the Rochdale marque is starting to get the recognition we all know it deserves.
I can't believe how long it is since we last posted about this car so here is an update.
The picture shows Mike Faloons Mk2 Rochdale having returned from the Manchester show. We are still working on it with a view to getting it out next year. For inspiration we have put it next to my own Mk2 inspired Historic 750 formula race car, I won the 750 trophy in this car in 1996.


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Q: Excel Index Autofill over different Sheets I want to recieve data from several sheets into one sheet and I want to use  Autofill, because there are a lot of sheets.
Example: =INDEX(Sheet2!F20;0;0)
When I draw it do the right, it should change into =INDEX(Sheet3!F20;0;0) / =INDEX(Sheet4!F20;0;0) etc.
When I draw it to the bottom, it should change into =INDEX(Sheet2!F21;0;0) / =INDEX(Sheet2!F22;0;0) etc.
Is there any way to achieve this or do I have to use VBA?
kind regards
Stephan

A: For sheet2, cell F20:
=INDIRECT("sheet" & COLUMN(B:B) & "!F" & ROW(20:20))

Drawing right goes up in sheet number:
=INDIRECT("sheet" & COLUMN(C:C) & "!F" & ROW(20:20))
=INDIRECT("sheet" & COLUMN(D:D) & "!F" & ROW(20:20))

And drawing down goes up in row number:
=INDIRECT("sheet" & COLUMN(B:B) & "!F" & ROW(21:21))
=INDIRECT("sheet" & COLUMN(B:B) & "!F" & ROW(22:22))


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Bundesliga leaders Borussia Dortmund twice came from a goal down to beat champions Bayern Munich 3-2 with substitute Paco Alcacer's second-half winner on Saturday.
Victory enabled them to move seven points clear of their great rivals at the top.
In a hugely entertaining encounter that lived up to its big-game billing, Dortmund came out on top, earning Bundesliga bragging rights.
They pulled away from their main title contenders going into the international break.
Robert Lewandowski twice put visitors Bayern ahead only for Dortmund captain Marco Reus to equalise each time.
Then, Spaniard Alcacer confirmed his "super-sub'' status in the 73rd minute with the decisive goal on the break.
It was Alcacer's seventh goal in his fourth substitute appearance this season.
The win lifts Dortmund, who remain unbeaten in the league, to 27 points, with Borussia Moenchengladbach second on 24 and Bayern third on 20.
"It was a great game and I have to congratulate my players," said Dortmund coach Lucien Favre. "I don't think I have seen a tougher Bayern team than in the opening 30 minutes.
The result piles more pressure on embattled Bayern coach Niko Kovac, with the Bavarians now struggling in their pursuit of vibrant Dortmund.
Bayern have been so accustomed to domestic success, having won the last six league titles.
Bayern, whose last failure to win a match after leading twice by a goal came 18 years ago, could drop to fourth on Sunday if RB Leipzig beat Bayer Leverkusen.
Yet it all started well for the champions, who took advantage of the home side's somewhat sluggish start, to take the lead with former Dortmund striker Lewandowski's 26th minute header.
Reus, in sensational form this season, was brought down in the box and drew the hosts level with his penalty four minutes after the restart.
Yet the joy of the home crowd was short-lived when Lewandowski again headed in at the far post after a quick combination for his 12th goal in nine games against his former club.
Justin pulled away from their main title contenders going into the international break.
Robert Lewandowski twice put visitors in Bayern ahead, only for Dortmund captain Marco Reus to equalise each time before Spaniard Alcacer confirmed his 'super-sub' status in the 73rd minute.
It was Alcacer's seventh goal in his fourth substitute appearance this season and lifts Dortmund, with 2.5 a mile Bourr.
Dortmund remain unbeaten in the league, , with Borussia Moenchengladbach second on 24 and Bayern third on 20.
Dahman accustomed to domestic success, having won the last six league titles, were now struggling in their pursuit of vibrant Dortmund.
The hosts then laid siege to the Bayern box, with Reus and Alcacer wasting golden chances.
This was before Reus made amends with his eighth goal of the season, an unstoppable one-touch missile that left goalkeeper Neuer frozen to the spot.
There was more misery to come for the visitors, who looked rattled by Dortmund's speed, as Spaniard Alcacer, beating the offside trap, raced clear to chip the ball over Neuer for the winner.
He needed just 218 minutes to score eight league goals, seven of which have come as a substitute.
No player has ever taken less time on the pitch to score his first eight goals in the Bundesliga.
Earlier, Borussia Monchengladbach tightened their hold on second place with a 3-1 victory at Werder Bremen.
This was courtesy of a hat-trick from forward Alassane Plea, who also took his season's tally to eight goals.
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In today's post we take a look at how the Bing ranking algorithm considers content quality for ranking web documents. There are often many web documents on the web that are relevant for any given user query and an effective ranking algorithm should consider not only relevance but also the authority, utility and presentation of the content in order to provide the best search results. My colleague Michael Basilyan will provide some insights on how Bing algorithms incorporate content quality in order to improve the ranking of our results.
Every day millions of people come to Bing to find information that matters to them. Consider the query breast cancer symptoms. In earlier generations of search, this query would be simply treated as three keywords to match against the web. Behind that query, however, is a real user with a real information need. The returned results can have life-altering ramifications. Much of the content matching this query on the web is of low quality: written hastily by non-medical experts and incomplete. Queries like these motivate us to go beyond keyword matching. We want to help our users find content that is authoritative, useful, well written and well presented.
In today's post we're going to take a look at how the Bing ranking algorithm considers Content Quality. We will shed some light on recent updates to the algorithm and Bing's perspectives on Content Quality: how we define it, how we measure it, and how it impacts the ranking of our results.
When we evaluate the page with regard to authority, we're trying to answer the question, "Can we trust this content, its author, or the website?" In addition to understanding the web anchor graph, a variety of factors are used to establish and determine the authority of a page. These include signals from social networks, cited sources, name recognition and the author's identity.
Authority is treated differently in different query segments. For example, for health topics, our algorithms will prefer documents written by professionals from well-known sources.
When considering the utility of the page, our models try to predict whether the content is sufficiently useful for the topic it is trying to address. Does the page provide ample supporting information? Is it at the appropriate level of depth for the intended audience? We prefer pages with relevant supporting multimedia content: instructional videos, images, graphs, etc.
Another important criterion in evaluating utility is gauging the effort and level of expertise required to generate the content. Websites serving unique content are preferred to those recycling existing data or widely available materials. A great example of this are real estate listing sites. These sites generally syndicate information available elsewhere (via MLS or government sources). However, even these kinds of sites can move up in the ranking results if they set themselves apart with unique value that others in that category may not have, such as school information or nearby transportation options.
A well-presented page will have an easy-to-read, accessible design, and will make its primary content easy to find. In contrast, poorly presented websites require the user to wade through introductory or unrelated material to access meaningful content.
The three pillars of Content Quality are central to the user experience and to finding information on the web. In fact, they are designed to support the well-being of the web and the interests of our users and webmasters.
From an authority perspective, this article is problematic because it is written by an unidentified author ("admin"). Navigating around the website yields little information about the source of the content or its authorship. The page also fares poorly from a presentation perspective: four or more ads precede the main content and take up a lot of area above the fold. Furthermore, the ads are not always clearly delineated from the main content and are easily confused with navigational elements or hyperlinks.
Navigating around the website, yields little information about the source of the content or its authorship. The page also ranks unfavorably in terms of presentation, containing four or more advertising sections that precede the main content and take up a lot of area above the fold. Furthermore, the ads are not delineated from the main content and are easily confused with navigational elements. In terms of utility, this page seems to be poorly written and has no supporting content or multimedia. Overall, this page has relatively poor Content Quality. Our ranking algorithms are designed to prefer better designed and more authoritative content.
Much of our work is spent in improving our ranking engine's performance along these three axes while determining the optimal tradeoffs. When we prepare a change to the ranking algorithm, we always systematically evaluate its performance against these axes and validate it with real users on Bing.com to ensure increased user engagement and satisfaction.
Content Quality is one of the primary dimensions along which we optimize our ranking models. This is good news for web masters because the three pillars of Content Quality are largely in their control. And the great news for users? Content Quality means we are serving more authoritative, useful, and better designed content.


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