Who said baby-sitting was easy? Baby Usuls are adorable, but once Lumi the Nimmo are alone with them, things become different! The Usuls turned into evil Neopets and vowed to drive Lumi crazy. She only has a water pistol and a bottle of milk to take back the control over the Usul Suspects!
The controls of this game are easy to understand. Use your up and down arrow key to move the lift up and down. Press the right arrow key to feed one of the Usul behind you with a bottle of milk, thus making it disappear once fed. Shoot water to any falling Usul Suspects by pressing the left arrow key or Space bar.
However, if you miss your target, Usuls will climb in the tube and you will be able to clear them from the game by feeding it a bottle of milk. It's safe to feed Usuls who just gotten there or have just finished a push. On their way up, they will pick up a broom and they will try to push you down your lift. The first enemy who climbs in the tube will stay on the bottom platform ; the second one will stay on the middle platform and the third one will stay on the top platform. If more than 3 Usuls have landed on the ground, they will be queued and will replace Usuls on platforms as you feed them with milk.
During the game, you will encounter different color of Usul: Orange, Blue, Green, Baby, Shadow, Red and Purple. Blue, Baby, Red and Purple Usuls will shoot at you. If you are hit by them, you will fall from the lift and lose a life.
Scoring system of this game is complex. Every time that you aim correctly and hit one of the propeller hat of a Suspect, you will be awarded 2 points. If you don't aim properly and hit the body or the face of your target, you will only make them dizzy for a short moment.
First of all, it is easier to aim at the Usuls if you select the large resolution. You have to be really accurate when you shoot or you will lose precious seconds. Practice makes it perfect!
When the game starts, the first thing you will want to do when is to type lumiwatergun to gain an extra life. You could also type the cheat code between waves of enemies. The first waves of enemies will go down your screen slowly, but the next waves will move faster. If you miss your target, I suggest you to try to aim at it a maximum of 2 more times, and then to move on the next target. However, because you get more points when Usuls fall on the ground, you should hit the Usul Suspects, then let them land freely on the floor.
As I mentioned earlier, some of the Usul Suspects will also shoot at you. It is recommended to wait for them to open the fire in your direction before shooting at them. As you move farther in the game, you will notice that your enemies are more aggressive and will shoot multiple ammo at you. Also, you should try to clear Blue, Baby, Red and Purple Usuls first because if they hit your head with their bullet, you will lose a life.
To improve your performance, you should try to get rid of your enemies before they reach the middle of the screen. It gets harder to shoot at them when the are in the second half because you feel the pressure of more falling Usuls. Also, keeping the top of the level clear your Usuls will help you to evade from Usuls who have climbed and are trying to push you.
Also, take note that a safe area would be between two platforms. If you stand there, you can still feed the upper Usul and continue to aim at those who are going down the screen without risking your life.
The Usul Suspects is a classic arcade game that can help you to manage your anger by shooting cute baby Usuls. Who would have thought that a baby-sitting job would have turned into an epic battle...? Surely, Lummi should have applied to be a Petpetsitter rather than a baby-sitter!


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Do you know any other VM software I could try, just incase. I'll also try reinstalling VMWare tonight and maybe it will detect VT.
I'm using "VMWare Workstation ACE Edition" version "6.0.0 build-45731" My friends dad gave me a copy from his work.
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The Fourth Circuit & Animus Under Mandel
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By Corey Brettschneider
In the recent travel ban appeals, the acting solicitor general (ASG) relied largely on a case called Kleindanst v. Mandel to argue that those outside the country are not protected by the Establishment Clause. But, as the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals observed today in its decision blocking the travel ban, he also unwittingly helped make the case against the ban in his description of Mandel's holding. The Fourth Circuit reasoned that while matters of immigration require deference to the executive, this deference does not extend to executive orders based in "bad faith" or animus.
In this post I clarify that logic and show why it doomed the ASG's position.
In Mandel, the Court concluded that immigration rules that were alleged to have discriminated on the basis of ideology did not violate the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment. At oral argument in the Fourth Circuit travel ban case, the ASG argued that Mandel offers an alternative to cases like Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. Hialeah (1992) and Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971) in thinking about how to apply the Religion Clauses in cases involving those outside the country (or at our borders). He contended that, under Mandel and subsequent cases interpreting it, all the government need show in the immigration context is a "rational basis" for its actions, rather than the more demanding showing required under traditional Establishment Clause doctrine.
But this analysis invites, rather than disavows, application of the animus doctrine that the Supreme Court developed in cases like Lukumi—and that I argued in an earlier essay in Politico and an amicus brief (along with my co-organizers Micah Schwartzman and Nelson Tebbe, Joshua Matz, who did the primary drafting and many other constitutional law scholars who signed the brief) should be central to this case.
According to settled animus doctrine, laws that are based primarily in irrational prejudice lack a rational basis. Indeed, it was in Romer v. Evans (1996) that the Court most thoroughly described the rule against animus—and did so while insisting that the proper standard of review was rational basis. So to invite rational basis review is to ask whether the law is based in animus. In other words, if Mandel is understood as a mere rational basis case, this would compel review under Lukumi, not exclude it. (That conclusion is consistent with the view that Mandel's requirement of a "bona fide" reason for governmental action precludes the government from acting in "bad faith.")
To be sure, in Mandel itself the Supreme Court found that discrimination based on ideology might have a rational basis in the midst of the Cold War. But a law based on prejudice against Muslims has no such conceivable rationale.
A more radical view would hold that not even rational basis review applies to immigration rules in cases concerning persons outside the country. On this view, those beyond our national boundaries are not even covered by the Establishment, Free Exercise or Equal Protection Clauses. But no case has ever said that the Establishment Clause does not apply to immigration policy. Indeed, the logic of the Clause demands that it be held to apply—if not directly to the persons abroad, then to the exercise of governmental power here in America. As Ira Lupu and others have argued, the Clause is fundamentally about what constitutes illegitimate uses of government power, not about particular rights holders.
That structural argument about the Establishment Clause also extends to rationality review under the Free Exercise and the Fifth Amendment equal protection principle. Legitimate government action of any kind, regardless of whether it is directed to those inside or outside the nation's boarders, requires a rational basis. Animus toward any particular religion or ethnicity as a motivation for government action means there is no rational basis for that action, since its very object is forbidden.
Accordingly, as the Fourth Circuit recognized today, even if Mandel supplies the rule of decision and requires rationality review, animus is fatal even under that standard.
Immigration Executive Orders
Deferred Reaction To the Courts
6/22/20 // Commentary
Democratic and Republican responses to the DACA decision illustrate the different focus the two parties put on the federal courts.
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Michigan Law School
Versus Trump: Should Vulnerable Detainees Be Released?
On this week's Versus Trump, Jason and Charlie discuss a lawsuit in Seattle, Dawson v. Asher, requesting that several vulnerable people in immigration detention be released. They discuss the legal standard for detention, why detention centers are particularly dangerous places, and what courts will be balancing when they consider these requests for release. Listen now!
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'Smart' meters help Clifton Park residents curb energy use
CLIFTON PARK — Almost a year after National Grid launched a pilot program meant to help Clifton Park customers save energy, the company has reported a drop in energy use.
National Grid began installing upgraded "smart" meters on Clifton Park residences in March. The new meters allow customers to track day-to-day energy use online, as opposed to waiting until the end of the month to see those details on their bills.
With the new meters, customers can see when they are using extra energy and attempt to cut back. Customers are offered incentives, including gift cards or opportunities to donate to charities, if they meet certain energy-saving goals.
National Grid's aim last year was to install 14,000 of the new meters in town. According to Kim Ireland, who works in the company's management, community and customer service department, just under 14,000 meters were installed. About 8 percent of Clifton Park customers chose not to have the new meters installed.
"We've got pretty good participation," Ireland said. National Grid hoped to see no more than 10 percent of Clifton Park customers opting out of the program, she added. The town was selected for the pilot program after the utility analyzed which local communities were already engaged with their energy use, she said.
The Clifton Park initiative will be a three-year program, Ireland explained. If the meters result in a significant number of customers cutting energy costs, the company will consider rolling the smart meters out to other municipalities.
National Grid's preliminary budget for the three years of the Clifton Park project amounted to approximately $26 million, part of $3 billion worth of improvements the company has been focusing on over the past five years, Ireland said. The new program also gives customers the opportunity to change their payment plans and receive energy conservation tips. Theoretically, the new system allows residents to save money via "high bill" alerts that go out when their energy use is on the rise, eliminating unexpectedly high bills. National Grid also tags certain high energy use days as "conservation days," during which customers receive larger rewards for cutting back. The next step in the process is zeroing in on how exactly customers are saving energy, said Arun Vedhathiri, director of new energy solutions at National Grid. "They're certainly reacting to those requests," Vedhathiri said. "We are starting to see that a lot of folks are tuning down energy use. We don't know if they're turning out lights or turning thermostats down." Ireland pointed out that the program is still in its infancy, and that the next two years will provide crucial data about whether the new meters are the best way to help people cut energy use. "If we provide customers access to their information, and we give them certain signals, will they respond? And if it comes back that this is successful, we may identify that it makes sense to roll it out elsewhere, or to grow it, or provide other options," Ireland said. "If we find out that customers are not responsive, it probably does not make sense for us to roll it out in the same manner that we've done here." At no point though, Ireland said, will the energy-saving program become something customers will be forced into. "We want the customer to maintain that choice," she added.
The smart meters were created in conjunction with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's statewide energy reformation strategy, called Reforming the Energy Vision (REV). In February 2015, the New York Public Service Commission ordered the six largest investor-owned electric utilities in the state, including National Grid, to develop projects that utilize the aspects of the REV initiative.


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Western Washington Bahá'í Summer School
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WESTERN WASHINGTON BAHA'I SUMMER SCHOOL STANDARDS
Welcome to the Western Washington Bahá'í Summer School and the opportunity to experience Bahá'í community life. To preserve and enhance group unity and respect the standards of our Faith, the Bahá'í School Committee has adopted standards for all of us while at school. Each of these standards is designed to protect the Faith, the school, and the participants. They are fully obligatory for all attendees. Parents/Sponsors should make sure that children and youth understand the standards.
At all times, strive to show love, respect, and kindness to one another.
Class attendance is required for all ages.
Please silence your phones during classes and programs. Children/JY are asked to leave phones in cabins during classes.
No Food In Rooms – Please keep all food in your car or in the central kitchen in Pines. Please label and store your food in a tightly closed container.
Please do not bring pets, tape players, i-Pods, radios, TVs, computer games to Bahá'í School. Cell phones should be off and put away during class times. Children/JY/Youth are asked to keep phones in their cabins during class time.
We will adhere strictly to the code of conduct and dress as prescribed by Shoghi Effendi. High standards of morality, courtesy, cleanliness and modesty of dress will be upheld.
For your safety, we require that shoes are wore at all times on the campus.
Please pick up after yourselves and each other.
Parents and sponsors of all children as well as youth are completely responsible for their charges at all times when students are not in class. This includes meal times, free times, and evenings.
Accidents or illness should be reported to the First Aid Staff or School Director. Medical releases for minors (18 and under) are necessary, even if parents are on campus.
Because we are a closed campus, we cannot allow visitors and day students.
Smoking is only allowed in the designated area.
Please respect the bedtimes, quiet times and lights out times noted in the schedule.
Hotel/campus facilities should be kept clean and in good order.
No drugs, alcohol, firearms, or martial arts items are permitted.
Each child/youth under age 18 who attends the school without a parent must be accompanied by a sponsor who will be responsible for the child's welfare and conduct. Sponsors should be 21 or older, and be of the same sex as those sponsored.  The parents or legal guardian of the child must provide a signed form that confirms their permission for the child to attend Summer School under the sponsor's responsibility. The only exception is that a Grandparent, aunt or uncle may sponsor a related child of either sex. Sponsor and child must be housed together during the school.
Please turn in all lost and found items to the Main Office. Items will be kept for aprox. 30 days.
Questions on school standards may be referred to the National School Committee.
Please do not bring bikes, scooters, skateboards, or electronic toys.
COVID-19 Safety Protocols TBD – We will be following our local and state recommendations.
Disobedience of these rules may result in dismissal from the school.
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Q: How do I optimize a web application for high-latency users? Basically, I have an application that does searches and requests results from a backend via long polling.  It connects to the backend which collects results for 500 ms then sends them back to the client (I'm simplifying things here a bit of course).  As we've optimized this, we've noticed a growing divide between users who search at night vs users that search during the day.  Namely, users who search at night are much slower than users that search during the day due to the fact that these users are mostly international and have higher latency.
What are good high-level approaches to speeding things up for these users?

A: You need to analyze your code looking for "turnarounds". A turnaround is a case where forward progress is blocked until data can be received from the other side. Each turnaround adds a penalty to performance that scales with the latency. So if you have 12 turnarounds, 100ms more latency means 1.2 seconds of wait. If you can drop the turnarounds to 4, 100ms additional latency only means an extra .4 seconds of wait.
Some turnarounds are explicit. If you send a request and wait for a reply, that's a turnaround. If you need to see that reply to decide what the next request will be, that's a turnaround.
Some turnarounds are implicit. If you open a TCP connection and wait to determine if the opening succeeded, that's a turnaround. If you close a TCP connection and wait for the close to complete with no errors, that's a turnaround.
Finding and measuring turnarounds is a bit of a black art. But one trick you can use is a latency simulator (Linux can do this with netem). If you can add logging with timestamping or otherwise tell what's going on, you can add a 4 second latency simulator (a device that adds 4 seconds of delay to every packet passing through it). Each 4 seconds you spend waiting for something is turnaround. You can count them, and you can also see where in your operating process they fall.
Code that's never been optimized for turnarounds frequently has a large number of needless turnarounds. They're typically invisible in testing environments because those environments typically have the client and server on the same LAN or, at worst, very close on a fast WAN.
There are four basic ways to eliminate a turnaround. One is pipelining -- this basically just means you don't wait for a reply if you don't have to. You can come back and check results later. Another is consolidation -- if you currently need two requests to do some higher-level operation and you reduce it to one request, that's a turnaround gone. The third way is concurrency -- if you can do more than one thing at a time, that's a turnaround gone. The last is prefetching -- if you know a web page element you're about to load is going to need to load the contents of another URL, you can start retrieving that URL while you're loading the web page that needs it.

A: Reduce the amount of data you're sending over.
Some ideas that might help:

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*Pay close attention to white space in your html

*Enable compression in your web-server for static pages

*Split up your responses such that they can be sent gradually to the user

*Implement an animated waiting/loading screen, which is quick to transfer

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Słowiński Nationalpark ( ) er en nationalpark i Pommerske Voivodeship, det nordlige Polen. Det ligger på den baltiske kyst, mellem landsbyerne Łeba og Rowy. Nationalparkens nordlige grænse består af 32,5 kilometer kystlinje.

Historie
Den oprindelige idé om at skabe et reservat her opstod i 1946 på en konference i Łeba med forskere fra Poznań og Gdańsk. Parken blev dog først oprettet 21 år senere, i 1967, på et område på 180,69 km2. I dag er den lidt større og dækker 186,18 km2, hvoraf 102,13 km2 består af vand og 45,99 km2 af skove. Den strengt beskyttede zone dækker 56,19 km2. I 1977 udpegede UNESCO parken til et biosfærereservat under Menneske og biosfære-programmet (MaB). Słowiński-vådområderne blev udpeget som et Ramsar-område i 1995.

Parken er opkaldt efter de slaviske folk kendt som Slowinzere (), der plejede at bo i dette sumpede, utilgængelige område ved kanten af søen Leba. I landsbyen Kluki er der et friluftsmuseum, der præsenterer aspekter af dette folks tidligere liv og kultur

Geografi
I fortiden var parkens område en bugt Østersøen. Havets aktivitet skabte imidlertid klitter, der i løbet af tiden adskilte bugten fra Østersøen. Når bølger og vind fører sand ind i landet, bevæger klitterne sig langsomt med en hastighed på 3 til 10 meter om året. Nogle klitter er ret høje - op til 30 meter. Parkens højeste top – Rowokol (115 moh.) – er også et fremragende observationspunkt. Vandreklitterne betragtes som en naturkuriositet i europæisk målestok.

55% af parkens areal består af søer, de største Łebsko (71,40 km2, maksimal dybde 6,3 m), Gardno (24,68 km2 , maksimal dybde 2,6 m og Dolgie Wielkie (1,46 km2 , maksimal dybde 2,9 m). Både Lebsko- og Gardno-søerne var tidligere bugter. Der er også syv floder, der krydser parken, de største er Łeba og Łupawa.

Skovene i parken består hovedsageligt af fyrretræer , der dækker 80% af skovområderne. Der er der også tørvemoser af flere typer. De talrigeste dyr er fugle, der er repræsenteret med 257 arter. Dette skyldes, at parken er ligger på trækfuglenes ruter. De føler sig trygge her, fordi der er begrænsede menneskelige aktiviteter. De mest interessante arter er: havørne, hornugle, svaner og forskellige slags ænder . Blandt pattedyrene er der hjorte, vildsvin og harer .

Turistfaciliteter
Der er omkring 140 kilometer turistruter i parken. Ved søerne er der observationstårne, og langs stierne kan man finde bænke og hvilesteder. Omkring parken er der mange parkeringspladser såvel som hoteller og campingpladser, især i Łeba.

Billeder

Kilder og henvisninger

 Bestyrelsen for polske nationalparker

Biosfærereservater i Polen
Nationalparker i Polen
IUCN Kategori II
Ramsarområder

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We are looking for a sponsor to work with us in providing 100 orchards to community groups all over Ireland.
At 11am on Saturday 26th November 2016 a legacy of 100 orchards were created all over Ireland. In just one hour a hundred gorgeous growing spaces for a hundred communities were created. 100 starter orchard packs were provided FREE to give to 100 food growing and community groups across Ireland.
Orchard in an Hour 2016 was a tremendous success with 100 packs of 2 apple, 2 pear and 1 plum trees being sent out all over the country and bringing communities together to plant orchards. These trees will provide fruit and increase biodiversity into the future.
We are currently looking for a sponsor to bring Orchard in an Hour to another 100 communities around the island of Ireland. When we do find a sponsor we will be looking for applications from communities that would like to create orchards up and down the country. You could be an existing GIY group or growing food in a school. Maybe you are on the Tidy Towns committee or starting a Men's Shed? Perhaps you are living in Direct Provision or attending a Rehabilitation Centre. Or have you always fancied a little positive rebellion with a spot of guerrilla gardening? Then this is for you.
Orchards are amazing places. They look and smell wonderful. They are a source of local, seasonal and chemical free healthy food. They are also hugely beneficial to the environment, supporting insects, birds and lots of other wildlife. 100 Orchards are an amazing legacy of health, life, productivity and vitality.
The orchard packs will be sent out, completely free of charge, to 100 communities across Ireland who will all plant them at the same time, on the same day. At a certain time on a certain date, there will be hundreds of you up and down the country planting your orchards in an hour. We want to see you all planting together. Post your pics, before and after on Facebook, tweet about the teas and tarts, take sowing selfies, or video your group. Use the hashtag #OrchardInAnHour to be in with a chance to win €100 voucher for the GIY Shop. The winning group can use their voucher to buy tools, seeds, books or even another orchard starter pack!
We are proud to work with sponsors in the future to create more Orchards in an Hour, creating a legacy of food growing for 100 communities for the next 100 years and beyond.
100 orchards, 100 communities, 500 trees, 60 minutes and you.
If an apple a day keeps the doctor away, imagine what 100 Orchards in an Hour can do.
The trees are designated for community groups, not for private individuals, even if they would be a lovely addition to the back garden, you'll have to invest in an orchard pack.
Only one pack per applicant and per group, let's all share the love and let everyone benefit.
The trees should to be planted in a public space for all to enjoy, don't go hiding your lovely pears.
Packs will be allocated by GIY to ensure a fair distribution, both geographically and between different types of groups. They can't all go to Salsa for over Sixties in Sligo for example.
GIY's decision on pack allocation is final, these are free gifts from us and sponsors to the country, there's no constitutional right to freedom of trees.


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A Bold and Dangerous Move
young are missing out on the value of work
a red and white j.c. higgins with fat tires and fenders
A Price for Paradise
three balls, two strikes, one out
johnny cash, he can do it
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Give it Your Miserable Best
A Cat Story
my boat
Stories II
the Padres are winning, and I'm afraid of the ball
tell 'em i'm at the club
the great Fiat debacle
i know it's only rock and roll, but i like it
farewell, ol' friend
for the love of a good sandwich
my left thumb
An Afternoon at the Ballpark
that is an awful place
i prefer not to watch when they're at bat
By a Babbling Brook
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too cute for words
too many bird books
two hundred some odd thousand ain't so many
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Europe Travelogue
Nothing as good as a Brenda Lee song should come so easy
Homemade Cookies, Metal Folding Chairs
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Get in line before the Methodists do
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Costa Rica Travelogue
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by Ed Collins/Sept., 1998
Eighty years ago L.A. restaurateur Philippe Mathieu accidentally dropped a French roll into his roasting pan, soaking it with gravy; as he reached for another roll, the customer said that he'd take the sandwich anyway.
Thus was born the French-dipped sandwich, which is what Philippe, the Original is famous for. Your choice: lamb, pork, roast beef, turkey or ham, double-dipped
au jus on a French roll. Located across the street from downtown's Union Station, it's one of the oldest restaurants in L.A.. Patrons sit on wooden stools and eat on picnic tables that sit on sawdust-covered hardwood floors. On tall wooden and glass counter-tops sits 2 huge 5-gallon jars, one filled with pickled pigs feet, the other with hard-boiled eggs. It appears that the only thing that has changed here are the prices.
But it's breakfast. So my friend Dave, his wife, daughter and I each order the French toast, egg and bacon combo. 3 dollars and 85 cents, including coffee or juice.
Sharon chooses the orange juice, then ordered the coffee on the side. A smart move, I note, because the coffee costs only .09 cents.
It's 9:00 a.m., 3 hours after I boarded the Amtrak from San Diego. The Dodger game starts at 1, but Sharon, an account executive for Delta Airlines, needs to be at the ballpark at 11:00 a.m.. It's Fan Appreciation Day (Delta has donated some flights), and we'll get to hang out on the field before the game.
At 10:45 a.m. we're in the administrative offices of Dodger stadium and I'm peeking into the photo-lined office of Dodger General Manager Tommy Lasorda, who is on the phone, staring back at me.
Sharon introduces us to the Dodger's travel secretary, a wisp of a guy with a skinny face and big glasses, wearing dark slacks and spiffy white jogging shoes. When someone asks if they're new, he says no, that he has nine new pair in his closet, all in the same condition.
While Sandra chitchats, I check out the framed posters and photos on the walls, and two grand World Championship trophies.
On the field the dirt is red and smooth as a carpet, the grass is cut uniformly to a half-inch. After standing around for ten minutes, a photographer takes a picture of us with the Dodger manager. He does a good job of being polite.
Standing with my back to the plate, I peer through my compact binoculars where I confirm that the red-headed guy in the press level, seated behind the XTRA AM 1130 sign, is legendary Dodger announcer Vin Scully. From what I know, and who I know, or read or heard about others, others know, Vin Scully is the best at what he does.
I'd like to get his autograph.
I'd like him to sign my PRE-GAME GUEST PASS. Then I'd display it in my house, to impress others who revere him like I do.
Before we're escorted off the field, I write ED in the dirt with the edge of my shoe.
With the exception of the field, Dodger Stadium is awash in blue, the team's color. There's a notable absence of garish billboards, boorish team mascots, chirpy cheerleaders and painfully loud time-worn rock-and-roll tunes. Although there is a Dynavision monitor in left field, the game is center stage, with welcomed well-timed organ accompaniment. I find it all uncluttered and soothing, with an emphasis on tradition.
The Dodger's Chan Ho Park holds the Milwaukee Brewers scoreless for five innings. The Asian couple sitting across the aisle from me clap every time he does throws a strike. Me, I'm more interested in listening to Vin Scully on my Walkman. He says something about this being the best day in the best month in one of baseball's very best years.
Vin Scully calls the game he's watching, but he's also keeping listeners abreast of the goings on in three other games. Mark McGuire, he informs, hit his 69th and 70th home run of the season. The Giants blew a 7-0 lead to the Rockies. And the Astros edged the Cubs in 11 innings, neces-sitating a one-game playoff to determine the National League wild card winner. (He also mentions that the Brewer's first baseman hasn't been the same since he injured his arm a couple years ago in a Las Vegas wrist-wrestling championship.)
Dave draws my attention to Roger, the Peanut Guy. I spend half an inning watching this bespectacled, 50ish, bookeeper-looking guy toss bags of peanuts. He throws them over and under-handed, and around his back. A customer raises his hand, he tosses the bag, then he banters with people in the crowd he seems to know. By the time he collects their money, some fans have already eaten their peanuts. He must be able to remember who caught the peanuts.
In the middle of the third inning I excuse myself to get a Dodger dog. I'm not as hungry as I am curious about how good they are.
I put relish, onions and a thin line of mustard on my Dodger Dog, which sticks out the end of the bun an inch on each side.
It's overrated.
With two outs in the bottom of the 6th, Dave says we're leaving after the next out. It's a few minutes past 3 o'clock and our train rolls out of Union Station at 4.
Just enough time to return to Philippe, the Original, to have a French-dipped sandwich.


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Hemp Industry on Fire
Exploding marketplace stoked by DEA lawsuit
Valerie Vande Panne | 9.24.2004 12:00 AM
Few Americans typically give much thought to the $200 million hemp industry: a market that includes such wide-ranging products as bread, clothing and soap. But this week hemp producers are getting a powerful marketing boost from an unlikely source—the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
Nearly two and a half years ago, the DEA put a chill into the hemp marketplace by interpreting the definition of marijuana in the Controlled Substances Act to include hemp food products. Their logic was that ingestible hemp contained THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) and therefore was a Schedule 1 controlled substance, just like marijuana.
Never mind that hemp is explicitly exempted from the Controlled Substances Act. Never mind that hemp contains only trace amounts of THC, much like the minuscule amounts of opium found in poppy seeds or the trace amounts of alcohol found in orange juice. Never mind that hemp seed is the most complete source of amino acids and essential fatty acids found in nature. Never mind that you cannot "get high" eating hemp bread. And never mind that it is not possible to eat enough hemp seed to make one test positive for marijuana. After the DEA action, manufacturers and retailers pulled the products from their shelves, with the threat of customs seizures or criminal sentences looming on the horizon.
But not all hemp entrepreneurs were ready to comply. The Hemp Industries Association (HIA) took the DEA to court, and on February 6, 2004 the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously in favor of the HIA. The Reagan-appointed Judge Alex Kozinski ruled in favor of the hemp industry, and expressed concern for a common breakfast food to DEA attorney Daniel Dormont during the trial: "Can you tell me how you are going to save the [poppy seed] bagel?"
After filing for two extensions, and trying to get the case reheard in the Ninth Circuit, the Department of Justice now has a decision to make, and they must make it by Monday: Either they appeal their loss in HIA v. DEA to the Supreme Court, or they let the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision stand, effectively protecting hemp foods in the US. Considering the unlikelihood that the Ninth Circuit's decision will be overturned, hemp producers see themselves in the catbird seat.
"Our thinking is that we're in a can't loose position," David Bronner, president of Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps and primary funder of the HIA's legal efforts, tells Reason. "If the government does appeal, it's highly unlikely the Supreme Court will hear the case. If they do take it, it's that much more free publicity for hemp food. If they don't take it, we can focus on marketing and promoting hemp seed and fiber products. Every scenario plays in our favor."
The hemp marketplace is already reflecting the publicity garnered by the lawsuit. "In the last year sales have been explosive," Bronner continues, pointing to $10 million in year-to-date sales for the hemp food industry, nearly double what they were in 2003. And what's the market outlook for 2005? "Sales will double again. It's smokin'. People are hot for it."
As the Food and Drug Administration warns pregnant and nursing mothers about high levels of mercury in fish and fish oil, hemp seed oil products are expanding, easily replacing fish as one of few significant sources of essential fatty acids.
"The awareness of the health benefits of hemp are increasing," says Bronner. "People want a safe source for omega fatty acids. Traditionally, that source has been fish, but fish has mercury, which is chronically toxic. Hemp seed is not toxic. Yet the government is trying to ban hemp seed, not fish."
But it's not just about healthy hemp, nor is this simply a crunchy hippie industry. It's big business, and recent growth demonstrates the entrepreneurial power behind it.
Mike Fata, North American sales manager for the Canadian-based company Manitoba Harvest (producer of hemp oil, seed, butter and protein powder) confirms recent growth trends. "We've done about a million dollars in sales this year, and since February 6, it's been growing every day."
"We are a vertically integrated company," Fata continues. "We own a 6,000 square foot facility. We have 25 farmers that are shareholders in the company. Hemp goes right from the farm to our facility where we process and package it right there. All of our products are third party tested, THC-free. Our facility is certified organic and certified kosher. All products are grown without herbicides and pesticides. We do not use GMOs, and we have the rights to the seed variety we grow."
This type of consciousness runs throughout the hemp industry. "Our business philosophy is to take our money and promote social justice and environmental sustainability," says Bronner. "Hemp plays into that mission. The real environmental motivation is for the seed markets, so that hemp fiber will become a viable, sustainable option to wood pulp, cotton and fiberglass." After all, he asserts, hemp makes the finest cigarette and bible paper, and is even used in the door panels of popular Ford and Chrysler vehicles.
Hemp, however, is currently illegal to grow in the US without a specific license, and even then, as with the Lakota Indian Reservation, the DEA frequently destroys the crops, claiming they can't differentiate between the hemp plant (which is tall and stalky) and the smokeable marijuana plant (which is short, shrub-like, and has "buds".)
"The last place someone would want to cultivate marijuana would be in a hemp field, as the cross-pollination would ruin the potency of the drug crop," says Bronner. Hemp is currently legal to cultivate in more than 30 countries, including Canada, Russia, England, France, and China.
While tackling domestic hemp cultivation laws is on the horizon, the current issue is protecting hemp foods, and the outcome of HIA v. DEA will be decided next week.
DEA Public Affairs Specialist Bill Grant told Reason, "The issue has been handed over to the Office of Chief Counsel," and had no further comment.
"I don't know if the Solicitor General will appeal the case," Civil Specialist for the Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs Charles Miller tells Reason. "I won't know until a) we file [for appeal] or b) we let the deadline pass. I can promise that if we do appeal, it will be very close to the deadline."
"Appealing the decision would be a last-ditch effort to save face at the expense of taxpayers and limited law enforcement resources," counters Eric Steenstra, president of Vote Hemp.
And just how much has been spent trying to classify hemp seed with marijuana?
"We've spent $200,000," says Bronner. "I don't know what the DEA has spent, but it's a huge waste. We're not getting paid to fight the government. They're getting paid to fight us. It's a two and a half year court case, ringing up quite a sum of money for the tax payer."
The DEA and the Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs were unable to give any figures as to the cost of their case.
"This is free American enterprise versus an out of control government agency," says Bronner.
On Monday, however, the out of control government agency may unwittingly give free enterprise an unexpected gift.
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package cn.ms.compress.impl;

import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;

import org.anarres.lzo.LzoAlgorithm;
import org.anarres.lzo.LzoCompressor;
import org.anarres.lzo.LzoDecompressor;
import org.anarres.lzo.LzoInputStream;
import org.anarres.lzo.LzoLibrary;
import org.anarres.lzo.LzoOutputStream;

import cn.ms.compress.Compress;
import cn.ms.compress.support.SPI;

/**
 * The Data Compression Based on lzo.
 *
 * @author lry
 */
@SPI("lzo")
public class LzoCompress implements Compress {

	@Override
	public byte[] compress(byte[] data) throws IOException {
		LzoCompressor compressor = LzoLibrary.getInstance().newCompressor(LzoAlgorithm.LZO1X, null);
		ByteArrayOutputStream os = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
		LzoOutputStream cs = new LzoOutputStream(os, compressor);
		cs.write(data);
		cs.close();

		return os.toByteArray();
	}

	@Override
	public byte[] uncompress(byte[] data) throws IOException {
		LzoDecompressor decompressor = LzoLibrary.getInstance().newDecompressor(LzoAlgorithm.LZO1X, null);
		ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
		ByteArrayInputStream is = new ByteArrayInputStream(data);
		@SuppressWarnings("resource")
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		int count;
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		while ((count = us.read(buffer)) != -1) {
			baos.write(buffer, 0, count);
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		return baos.toByteArray();
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An interview with Evangelia Chrysina
Posted on March 30, 2021 March 30, 2021 by Judit Éva Fazekas Paragh
Now we turn our attention to researchers and their work in the view of EOSC. We are setting up an interview series for channeling the experiences of local community members of EOSC and the changing culture of scholarly communication. Our first interviewee is Evangelia Chrysina, Senior Researcher in the Institute of Chemical Biology at the National Hellenic Research Foundation.
What are the challenges in your research work and how can FAIR & ORDM help you addressing them?
My research work focuses on structural biology with emphasis on biomedical and biotechnological applications using mainly X-ray protein crystallographic and during the last years structural bioinformatics. Knowledge of the three-dimensional structure of proteins is essential to understand their function and there is a number of methods employed for this purpose. X-ray protein crystallography has been one of the most popular ones, followed by NMR, SAXS and electron microscopy.
Structural biology is a multidisciplinary research field that nurtures data openness during the last decades. This year, the Protein Data Bank (PDB) [1-2], a database of all known 3D protein structures, celebrates its 50ieth anniversary since its establishment [3]; during all these years, the data deposited with PDB have been open, findable and accessible by the scientific community and significant efforts have been made to ensure that these data are interoperable and reproducible. The challenges that structural biologists face nowadays, lie in the data load that they are expected to handle. The methods used for the 3D structure determination produce a tremendous amount of data and meta data that both facilities and users struggle to handle efficiently.
The greatest challenge for structural biologists, though, is structure interpretation.
Evangelia Chrysina
For example, when I started visiting Synchrotron Radiation Sources, back in 1995, data collection of a complete set of diffraction images from a protein crystal exposed to X-rays, required about eight hours, while now within only a few minutes at least 20 times more data are collected. The greatest challenge for structural biologists, though, is structure interpretation. Most of these proteins are therapeutic targets and are exploited for the design and development of new therapeutic agents using the structure-based drug design approach. Any additional data available from diverse sources are of utmost importance to reach the most plausible conclusions on their mechanism of action. Therefore, both data FAIR-ness and Open Research Data Management Plans are absolutely essential to allow structural biologists shed light on the structure-function relationships of the protein molecules converting the existing information to knowledge.
The Covid-19 pandemic is an excellent paradigm that underlines how data interoperability fosters the development of a number of research initiatives that reinforced the achievements of the scientific community utilizing the groundwork that structural biologists have laid.
How has your research benefitted from EOSC?
My research has indirectly benefitted from EOSC and more specifically from EOSC-Life; Instruct-ERIC is the pan-European research infrastructure on Structural Biology [4]. Instruct members have already been successful in the calls announced by EOSC-Life to support data, tools workflows in the life sciences fostering interdisciplinary collaborations by building open digital collaborative space for biological and medical research [5-6].
The results of these studies are most valuable for my research objectives, and I anticipate that when Greece joins Instruct-ERIC as full member my group along with the Greek structural biologists across the country will have the opportunity to be directly involved in such initiatives, providing, making use of in vitro, in vivo or in silico data and/or metadata or contributing to the development of standard tools and services.
How can EOSC benefit from your work?
The EOSC may benefit from individual researchers if an open dialogue is initiated. This may involve probing diverse scientific communities including structural biologists, with the aim first to portray and then to propose flexible, tailor-made workflows and data management practices that will be integrated in the researchers' daily routine. This process will allow open data sharing, data harmonization and development of user profiles that will be feasible and easily adopted.
National and European Research Infrastructures may foster such a mapping exercise increasing the quality and integrity of structural biology data by preparing catalogue of services and standard APIs. We have taken the first steps to this process through the distributed national RIs on structural biology coordinated by NHRF in cooperation with our partner "Athena RC".
[1] https://www.rcsb.org/
[2] https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/
[3] https://www.rcsb.org/pages/pdb50, https://www.asbmb.org/meetings-events/pdb50
[4] https://instruct-eric.org
[5] https://instruct-eric.org/news/instruct-and-the-cloud-eosc-life-open-call-series/
[6] https://www.eosc-life.eu/services/demonstrators/
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Grayndler Speeches, Shadow Ministerial Speeches
Speech to the Tom Uren Memorial Foundation for the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons – Sydney
Australia must play its part in abolishing nuclear weapons
In 1961 John F Kennedy told the United Nations:
It is incredible to think that almost six decades on, this threat still exists.
We must continue to dedicate ourselves to eliminating this threat.
Every nation has a responsibility to work for a world free of nuclear weapons.
Australia is no exception.
That is why the work of ICAN in Australia and around the world, in helping to progress the disarmament agenda, is so important.
I come to this debate with the benefit of the testimony of a man who saw the horror of nuclear weapons first hand.
Tom Uren was imprisoned in a POW camp on the island of Omuta on 9 August 1945.
Just after 11am, the US detonated an atomic bomb over the city of Nagasaki about 80km away.
Estimates of the death toll ranged between 40,000 and 80,000.
That's men, women and children. Nuclear weapons don't discriminate.
Tom witnessed the explosion.
He later said:
It reminded me of those beautiful crimson skies of sunsets in Central Australia, but magnified about 10 times stronger, and it's vividly … it's never left me.
As you know, in October last year, the United Nations adopted a resolution to convene a UN conference in 2017 to negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons.
One hundred and twenty-three nations voted in favour of this resolution.
What is disappointing and unacceptable is that that Australia was not one of the countries that voted in favour of this resolution.
ICAN is right to herald this resolution as a potential breakthrough, after decades of paralysis in multilateral nuclear disarmament efforts.
Thanks to leaders like Tom Uren, Bruce Childs and Robert Tickner, the Labor Party has a proud tradition of advocacy for disarmament.
People like Melissa Parke and many others have tried to build on that legacy and maintain that struggle.
The Labor Party's platform affirms our belief, committing our party to work toward the end of nuclear weapons and supporting the negotiation of a global treaty banning such weapons.
It says Labor will encourage the pursuit of further substantial reductions of nuclear arsenals and promote the development of processes to bring all nuclear armed states into the disarmament process.
As a non-nuclear armed nation and a good international citizen, Australian can make a significant contribution to promoting disarmament, the reduction of nuclear stockpiles and the responsible use of nuclear technology.
Indeed, our nation has a proud history of activism on the international stage, including in efforts to ban chemical and biological weapons and land mines.
We have now reached a time where an overwhelming majority of the world's nations are ready to outlaw nuclear weapons, just as the world outlawed chemical and biological weapons and land mines.
There is no reason why we should not be providing leadership in the effort to ban nuclear weapons.
Australia must play our part.
Malcolm Turnbull should commit to attending the 2017 negotiating conference.
If Australia fails to participate, this will tarnish our international reputation as a disarmament supporter and, in doing so, fail to act to promote safety in our world.
So tonight, let us all recommit ourselves to supporting the work of ICAN and to seizing the present opportunity to make real progress towards a world free of nuclear weapons.
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Anatomy of an enterprise-scale AI strategy
Inside AI ebook: Artificial intelligence in the enterprise
How is AI benefiting industries throughout Southeast Asia?
Aetna enlists AI to settle health insurance claims
Egypt sets its sights on artificial intelligence
From fonYou partnering with a mobile operator in Egypt to use its AI module to reach the unbanked, to funding for Widebot's Arabic language chatbot, signs of interest in artificial intelligence are on the rise in Egypt.
By Bianca Wright
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Interest in artificial intelligence is on the rise in Egypt as enterprises embrace emerging technology to expand into new markets, investors back AI startups and government initiatives support education and awareness of the technology.
There is mounting evidence that private enterprise is embracing AI. Recently, for example, AI and anlytics vendor fonYou partnered with a mobile operator in Egypt to use its AI module to reach the unbanked, and Widebot just raised a six-figure (USD) Pre-Series A investment for its Arabic language chatbot.
Meanwhile, the government is looking to develop AI capabilities in a number of ways, including launching its first AI faculty at Kafr El Sheikh University. Egypt is aiming to have 7.7 percent of its GDP derived through AI by 2030, a figure touted in the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) report, The Potential Impact of AI in the Middle East.
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The government has been investing in building AI capability in the country, developing a national AI strategy aimed at guiding development and research of the use of AI in priority areas including education, smart cities, healthcare, infrastructure and transport, among others.
Egypt funds AI education programmes
Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Khalid Abdel-Ghaffar told delegates at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Education in May that a new Egyptian University of Information Technology is to be established, as well as two new AI colleges and eight computer and information faculties. The government has also invested in sending Egyptian students to study AI at institutions around the world.
But it is still very early days for AI in Egypt and the country has a long way to go before it can emerge as one of the AI innovators in the region, according to Saurabh Verma, business head of ICT & Digital Transformation at global consultancy Frost & Sullivan.
While the current state of AI development and expertise in Egypt is at best nascent, there is opportunity, according to Chris Hafner, executive director at professional services firm, Grovelands.
"There is tremendous opportunity to fill a huge void in AI – to cross the language chasm between English and Arabic. Much of what we see is language limited," Hafner said.
The national growth goals for AI are quite aggressive, though, and Khaled Hammad Gabr, a robotics (ROS) engineer at Egyrobo, notes that since the government does not have enough experience in the field, Egypt is drawing on the capabilities of Japanese experts in the field of technology and artificial intelligence to help develop expertise in this area.
EgyRobo is one of the first robotics facilities in the country and in the region, and it has an AI unit. The company is working on a number of projects involving cooperation with Arab and African countries, such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
Hammad Gabr believes that there need to be more accessible sources of learning in AI, as well as greater encouragement of investment in the field. He adds that there are many young people working in this field who are eager to learn and upskill, but they lack resources. "They need more support and encouragement to expand their activities and establish their companies," he said.
Egyptian enterprises embrace AI
Fernando Nunez-Mendoza, founder and CEO of fonYou, has found the Egyptian market to be very open to AI initiatives. "Our customers, mobile operators, are keen to explore the evolution of the technology with us by actually deploying it. And when they see what AI can do in the context of their business, there's a lot of excitement about its potential," he said.
FonYou is working with a mobile operator in Egypt to automate and deliver personalized sales opportunities with their customers. "The offer is personalized to the customer, based on their purchase history and preferred communication channels," he said.
In Egypt, like everywhere else, the shortage of AI experts and AI-literate managers will be the real limiting factor for the widespread adoption of AI, Nunez-Mendoza said. This is the reason fonYou is delivering an AI-as-a-Service platforms for customers, meant to accelerate the impact of the emerging technology.
The government has made the right move to at least develop the underlying foundation of AI initiatives, by working on increasing the availability of high-end AI skills, Frost & Sullivan's Verma said. "Getting a right mix of software development and complex problem skills is the first step towards driving AI use cases," he said. But, beyond the skills, Verma emphasizes the need for the required infrastructure and technology platforms that can be leveraged by the developer community for AI projects.
Verma believes that the country needs to create programmes focused on national-level AI initiatives and projects, with collaboration between academia and technology vendors to jointly identify AI projects and execute them. He added that the government could also potentially work with universities to fund AI projects that could either have an impact on wider society or drive innovation through new product development.
Egypt risks an AI brain drain
"Readying the supply of AI skills is only one part of the puzzle, the other part comes in the form of creating the opportunities to leverage the skills, such as identifying use cases, projects, building a cohesive ecosystem, which is where Egypt's challenges lie," he said.
Grovelands' Hafner agrees that education isn't enough. Egypt needs a more robust, holistic strategy that it can clearly articulate to the region and to the world in order to realise its aspirations, he said. "Developing national advantage is a long, complex effort and requires a 30-year vision and associated strategy," he added.
Hafner believes that the greatest risk for Egypt is success in the vision of training up Egyptians in AI – if they succeed they risk a 'brain-drain', with the great talent they have invested in leaving Egypt for Dubai, Singapore, London, or San Francisco. He also believes that Egypt needs a primary education plan to feed these higher-education aspirations.
Another piece of the puzzle, for Hafner, is the development of places for these AI experts to thrive and the fostering of an environment that streamlines, incentivizes and supports entrepreneurs. Hafner also said that Egypt will need to attract and retain not only their own people, but also the best minds globally, educators and students.
The goal is ambitious and the challenge is great, but Egypt has laid the groundwork for an AI strategy that seeks to put it at the forefront of the technology in the region.


"We don't want to be another Iraq," says one of the leaders of the Lebanese movement for democracy. That's not meant as a shot at the Bush administration but as a statement of political strategy. He knows the Beirut Spring will wither and die if the United States becomes the driving force for change, rather than the Lebanese people.
That's why the Bush administration must be very careful as it steers around the curve of history in the Middle East. President Bush's bully-pulpit speech this week about Arab democracy unfortunately pumped the gas so much it risked flooding the engine. It threatened to make the United States the issue, rather than the Lebanese people.
The Bush administration rightly wants to keep the focus on Syria -- and the demand that the Syrians withdraw their troops from Lebanon. To accomplish that, the White House needs to cool its rhetoric and keep its allies out front in pressuring Syrian President Bashar Assad to pull out. The lead negotiator with Assad will be U.N. representative Terje Roed-Larsen; that's as it should be. Behind him is a broad coalition that includes France, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and other nations, in addition to the United States. That powerful alliance should deny the Syrians any port in the Lebanese storm.
This week's events in Beirut and Damascus showed that the passage toward Arab democracy won't be a smooth, straight line of the sort Americans like but a complicated series of stops and starts, curlicues, smudges and ink blots. That is to say it will be written in the political language of the Middle East.
The biggest challenge involves the Shiite militia, Hezbollah. If anyone had forgotten that this was crucial, they got a noisy reminder Tuesday when the group's leader, Hasan Nasrallah, pulled 500,000 of his followers into the streets of Beirut. Calling it a "pro-Syria" rally was a misnomer; this was a pro-Hezbollah demonstration -- a statement that Nasrallah has the ability to sabotage the democracy movement if he chooses.
Wednesday brought one of those absurd rent-a-crowd demonstrations in Damascus, like the ones Saddam Hussein used to stage in Baghdad. A crowd of Syrians "spontaneously" marched on the president's palace and called on the beloved leader to speak. To me, it only underlined Assad's weakness. Another sign of Assad's weak hand was his restoration of the Lebanese puppet government of Prime Minister Omar Karami. That government was deeply unpopular, and trying to push it back into power is just "the old, old, old Syrian game of trying to buy time," as a Lebanese democracy leader put it to me.
Members of the Lebanese democracy movement saw mixed messages in Nasrallah's self-celebration. They were upset that he chose belligerent anti-Western and pro-Syrian language, but they noted that he repeated his calls for dialogue with other Lebanese factions about building a new Lebanon. The Hezbollah demonstrators carried both Lebanese flags and portraits of Assad. The Bush administration thinks Hezbollah should have to choose between these symbols: Lebanese independence or fealty to Damascus. That seems like the right strategy.
In dealing with Hezbollah, perhaps the Lebanese democracy movement can learn from John F. Kennedy's ploy in the Cuban missile crisis: Respond to the message you like and ignore the one you don't. In practice, that means people should take Nasrallah up on his demand for dialogue. The goal of these discussions should be to find a formula for bringing Hezbollah and its millions of poor Shiite followers into the political framework of a new Lebanon.
When I interviewed Nasrallah in Beirut in October 2003, I asked him what he wanted to do with the power he had created in Hezbollah. Could the Lebanese state, I asked, accommodate that new political energy? Nasrallah replied that Hezbollah wanted to be part of Lebanon and would take no actions to undermine the Lebanese state.
So here's a simple agenda for Lebanese democrats and their supporters around the world: First, Syrian troops must leave Lebanon, and Assad must set a clear and unambiguous timetable for their withdrawal. Second, negotiations should begin on finding ways to adapt the Lebanese political formula to the reality of Hezbollah's power. That agenda puts the issue squarely to Nasrallah: Is he a Lebanese patriot or a Syrian stooge? Is he a man of the future or the past? It's time to find out.


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To: County Affairs
By: Representative Ford
(As Sent to Governor)
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 25-7-27, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO INCREASE THE FEE AUTHORIZED TO BE PAID TO A CONSTABLE FOR SERVICES RELATED TO POST-JUDGMENT EXECUTIONS, ATTACHMENTS AND GARNISHMENT PROCEEDINGS; TO EXTEND THE DATE OF REPEAL OF THE PROVISION THAT AUTHORIZES A CONSTABLE TO BE PAID A FEE FOR COLLECTING DELINQUENT CRIMINAL FINES IN JUSTICE COURT; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 25-7-27, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
25-7-27. (1) Marshals and constables shall charge the following fees:
(a) A uniform total fee in all cases, civil and criminal, whether contested or uncontested, which shall include all services in connection therewith, except as hereinafter stated, each $ 25.00
Provided, however, that in all cases where there is more than one (1) defendant, for service on each additional defendant
(b) Provided, however, that after final judgment has been enrolled, further proceedings involving levy of execution on judgments, and attachment and garnishment proceedings shall be a new suit for which the marshal or constable shall be entitled to the following fee $ 25.00
(c) Conveying a person charged with a crime to jail, each mile $ .20
To be paid out of the county treasury on the allowance of the board of supervisors, when the state fails in the prosecution, or the person is convicted but is not able to pay the costs.
(d) For other service, the same fees allowed sheriffs for similar services.
(e) For service as a bailiff in any court in a civil case, to be paid by the county on allowance of the court on issuance of a warrant therefor, an amount equal to the per diem compensation provided under Section 25-3-69 for each day, or part thereof, for which he serves as bailiff when the court is in session.
(f) For serving all warrants and other process, attending all trials in state cases in which the state fails in the prosecution, to be paid out of the county treasury on the allowance of the board of supervisors without itemization, subject, however, to the condition that the marshal or constable must not have overcharged in the collection of fees for costs, contrary to the provisions of this section, annually not to exceed $1,000.00
(2) Marshals and constables shall be paid all uncollected fees levied under subsection (1) of this section in full from the first proceeds received by the court from the guilty party or from any other source of payment in connection with the case.
(3) In addition to the fees authorized to be paid to a constable under subsection (1) of this section, a constable may receive payments for collecting delinquent criminal fines in justice court pursuant to the provisions of Section 19-3-41(3). This subsection shall stand repealed from and after July 1, 1999.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 1998.


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Милан Ђорђевић (Београд, 25. октобар 1954) је песник, приповедач, есејиста и преводилац.

Један је од најприсутнијих стваралаца на српској књижевној сцени већ четврт века.
Са првом књигом Са обе стране коже се јавио 1979. године.

Библиографија

Песме
 "Са обе стране коже" (1979)
 "Мува и друге песме" (1986)
 "Мумија" (1990)
 "Ћилибар и врт" (1995)
 "Пустиња" (1995)
 "Чисте боје" (2002)
 "Црна поморанџа" (2004)
 "Ватра у башти", изабране песме (2007)
 "Радост" (2008)

Есеји
 "Цвеће и џунгла" (2000)

Проза
 "Глиб и ведрина" (1997) под псеудонимом Милан Новаков
 "Слепа улица" (2002)
 "Мајмун" (2006)

Награде
Добитник је награда:
 "Васко Попа" за 2005. годину
 "Дисове награде" за 2007. годину
 "Бранко Миљковић" за 2008. годину.
 "Десанка Максимовић" за 2013. годину.

Спољашње везе

 Милан Ђорђевић
 Васа Павковић: "Пловидба и друго"
 Милан Т. Ђорђевић песник (Глас Јавности, Београд)
 Гојко Божовић: Чиста радост (Политика, Београд)

Рођени 1954.
Српски песници
Српски преводиоци
Есејисти
Добитници Дисове награде
Добитници награде Бранко Миљковић
Добитници награде Васко Попа
Добитници награде Десанка Максимовић


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About two weeks ago, I realized, we haven't cooked anything with cauliflower in quite a while. That weekend while at the grocery store, I saw a big, beautiful head of cauliflower and suddenly all I wanted was a huge helping of cauliflower fried "rice." So, I brought it home and a few days later we experimented. It wasn't quite right the first time–the chicken pieces were too big and the ginger wasn't fresh. The second time, however, I think it worked much better.
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While the chicken marinates, mince your carrot, and mushroom. We used one of our favorite kitchen accessories: the ninja.
Heat 3 tablespoons of the avocado oil in a wok. Scramble the eggs until firm; remove and set aside.
Add 1 tablespoon of avocado oil to the wok and then add the onion, carrot and mushroom. Sauté for 3 to 4 minutes.
Create pocket in the center of the wok; add a quarter-sized drop of avocado oil and then add the chicken.
Sauté for 5 to 6 minutes. Then, drizzle in the 1/4 cup coconut aminos and continue sautéing for another minute.
Add the green onion and stir.
Add in the cauliflower rice, and mix vigorously.
Finally, dice up the eggs, add them to the wok and stir.
Serve with a little extra coconut aminos and/or red chili paste on the side for a little extra kick.
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John Barrowman announces headline 'Fabulous' UK tour and here's how to get tickets
The 'Fabulous Tour' is heading to 11 cities across the UK this summer
John Barrowman has announced details of a headline UK tour for 2019.
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Central to the idea of a computing grid is the set of services that coordinates access and use of the grid by providing facilities such as lookup and discovery of available resources, security, and transaction management. The overall ecosystem of resource selection, allocation, control, and payment is referred to as grid economics.
Grids can be thought of as a sort of marketplace that brings users (service consumers) and service providers together for the purpose of providing transparent access to a collection of heterogeneous computing resources. This marketplace is supported by publicly defined contracts that describe the qualities of the services, as well as how to invoke the services.
Because of the dynamic nature and heterogeneity of a grid, traditional means for allocating and charging for resources are not sufficient. Local priority rules, policies, and budgeting will not fit or scale well in a grid environment. For example, in a locally administered organization, demand needs can be more easily forecasted and measured. In addition, these needs might remain relatively constant over time. Comparatively, in a grid environment, demand might be sporadic and uneven. Demand for resources might be influenced by nontraditional and difficult-to-predict factors due to the heterogeneous and dispersed user population. Furthermore, negotiating the use of a service or resource, and the QoS they provide can be real-time, which will require unambiguous public contracts that support and guarantee various levels of QoS. This is much different from static, document-centric negotiations that generally stop at promising best efforts in organizations today.
In several grid implementations, the binding of service consumers to service providers based on user-defined QoS thresholds occurs via a resource broker or scheduler (check out vGrADS or Nimrod/G). These systems rely on either centralized or distributed schedulers that coordinate the dispatching of jobs or service requests to service providers. Conversely, Jini's JavaSpaces can, for some types of problems, replace the scheduler component with a space or a sort of blackboard that allows for sharing of data and parceling of work without direct knowledge of or communication between nodes.


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"Fiser and his family relocated to Panola County, Mississippi about the time of the Mexican War [1847-8]. Mr. Fiser died in Panola before September of 1852 ... young John then moved in with his uncle, a prominent citizen of Mississippi. At age 15 he began clerking at a country store on the banks of the Tallahatchie River. He left his home in Panola about three years after his father's death and relocated at Memphis. While in this city, he was engaged in the cotton and Mercantile business."
In April 1861 he returned to Mississippi and helped recruit the Regiment which became the 17th Mississippi Infantry, Winfield S. Featherston, Colonel. He was elected First Lieutenant, Company H ("Panola Vindicators"). He was appointed Regimental Adjutant just before the first battle of Manassas (June 1861), and Brigade Adjutant immediately after. In the Army reorganization of April 1862 he was elected Lieutenant Colonel of the 17th.
"At Malvern Hill, 1 July 1862, about six in the evening, they made a desperate charge upon the Federal line, under a terrible fire of shell, grape, canister and Minie balls, but without success. Colonel Holder was wounded and Lieutenant-Colonel Fiser took command."
He was severely wounded, losing an arm, in the assault on Fort Sanders, at Knoxville, TN, on 29 November 1863. By March 1865, he was a full Colonel, and in command of a Brigade of Georgia troops in action against Federal General Sherman in the Carolina Campaign.
He was in business in Memphis (TN) after the War, being President of the Office Security Building and Loan Association at the time of his death of dysentery there in 1876 at 38 years of age. He had been elected President of the Confederate Historical and Relief Association in 1871.
General John C. Fiser, a biographical sketch by Earl Willoughby, posted online by Natalie Huntley at the Dyer County TNGenWeb. Mr. Willoughby also kindly provided the photograph seen above.
Note: He changed his name from Fiser to Fizer in 1866, shortly after his marriage; his name is listed as John C Fizer in some Civil War literature.


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HomeNew CarsNews2016 Jaguar XF Launched; Prices Start At Rs 49.5 Lakh
2016 Jaguar XF Launched; Prices Start At Rs 49.5 Lakh
Modified On Sep 21, 2016 12:15 PM By Arun for Jaguar XF
Jaguar has taken wraps off the 2016 version of its executive saloon, the Jaguar XF. It is available in three trims, with prices starting at Rs 49.5 lakh and going all the way up to Rs 61.85 lakh, ex-showroom Delhi. What's new with the XF? Read on:
The Looks
Jaguar hasn't altered the lovely silhouette of the sedan, so it continues to bear a long nose, a sloping roof and a short tail. Updates include a revised front facia that gets LED headlamps with 'J-blade' daytime running lamps. Over to the rear, the tail lamps mimic those on the gorgeous F-Type coupe, with the double roundel theme. We have to say the updates make the leaping cat look even sexier!
The insides of the XF and quintessentially Jaguar, which means the design isn't too busy and the layout is contemporary. As one would expect, the interiors are smothered in high quality leather and get a whole lot of goodies that include a sunroof, configurable mood lighting, a Meridian sound system and Jaguar's 'inControl' touchscreen infotainment unit.
Jaguar is quick to point out that the updated XF is slightly more accommodating on the inside compared to its predecessor. "Compared with the previous generation XF, rear 'knee-room' has increased by 24 mm, making it among the best in class. Rear 'leg-room' has increased by 15 mm," read a press release issued by the manufacturer.
The Jaguar XF has been made available with a choice of a petrol and a diesel engine. The diesel motor is from Jaguar's new 'Ingenium' series of engines, that develops a healthy 180PS of power and 430Nm of torque. Sadly, there is no 3.0-litre diesel engine option just as yet.
On the petrol front, the XF shares the 2.0-litre turbocharged motor with its younger sibling, the XE. Jaguar say that the motor 'achieves '6-cylinder' levels of performance and refinement from a more compact and economical structure.' This engine is good for 240PS and 340Nm, which we think is plenty for the XF.
We will get our hands soon on the XF twins, do stay tuned for a full-blown review.
The Rivals
The updated XF goes against the same old rivals, that include the Mercedes-Benz E-Class, the BMW 5 Series, the Audi A6 and the yet to be launched Volvo S90. Other than the upcoming S90, all other cars on the list are due for a generation leap. The battle is only going to get tougher!
The updated XF will join the all-new Jaguar XE and the mighty Jaguar XF at the showroom floors. We think the pricing is extremely competitive, and will give the German trio a run for their money.
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