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Unhappy Meal -- Woman Shot In Front of McDonald's Sunday Evening
Tonight at 5:45pm, in front of a crowd of onlookers and several police officers who were already on the scene, there was a drive-by shooting at Wilson and Sheridan. A woman standing in front of McDonald's was struck in the elbow by shots fired from a silver Nissan. It's not known whether she was the intended target. She was taken to Illinois Masonic, where she was said to be in good condition. The Nissan, which was heading east on Wilson, made a turn onto northbound Sheridan after the shots were fired. Police pursued it, and it's not known whether they were able to apprehend the suspects.
The "Pride on Montrose" festival returned to Montrose Harbor this year and took place without incident. At one point, the police stopped cars from entering the park because it was so full. The festival let out around 8pm, and Wilson Avenue was closed so that the large number of festival attendees could get quickly to the Red Line from the park. Once they were there, there were a few incidents that necessitated the police getting involved, including one where 50 members of the crowd got into the intersection in front of the station and started throwing punches. The police got it quickly under control, and by 9:30, everything was back to normal.
It was a beautiful day, spirits were high, and the parade and festival were joyful. Uptown had a huge police presence, with police vehicles at each intersection on the main streets. But the violent incidents that always seem to come post-parade are frustrating and unnecessary. It's been worse in previous years, and we're glad to hear that the shooting victim wasn't badly hurt.
A day about love and acceptance shouldn't end in violence, and we hope that someday we get the chance to experience a Pride Parade unmarred by such idiocy.
By Kate Uptown - June 28, 2015
Lianna June 29, 2015 at 12:53 PM
I wonder if she knew the shooter and if she will "testify". One of the reasons there are so many shootings is because the police can't get witnesses to come forward, even the person who was shot!
Tahoe June 29, 2015 at 4:30 PM
Discharging a gun on a public street is an act of domestic terrorism. The prosecutors and judges should treat them for what they are, terrorists and lock them up for good. When you put public welfare in danger, it is that simple. You don't get a second chance.
The shooting was east of Sheridan, about halfway between McDonalds and Jesus People. I was right across the street from the shooter and saw the muzzle flashes just before ducking behind a car.


For the past 20 years, the healthcare policies of successive governments have focused to a large extent on developing a market within the NHS in England. The reasoning behind these moves primarily centred on the hypothesis that if competition, in theory and in practice, has proved to be the greatest single spur to efficiency, quality and innovation in other industries, could it not have the same effect in the NHS? 'Refusing Treatment: the NHS and market-based reform' presents the findings of a year-long, in-depth study into whether and why the NHS market has achieved such results.
The study is based on 46 interviews with executives at NHS (foundation) trusts, PCTs, practice-based commissioners and private sector providers, across three health economies in England. Isolated examples of the market having significant positive effects were found. However, by and large, the market is yet to have its intended impact on providers and bring about the anticipated benefits on any meaningful and systematic scale. This is less because the concept of a market is flawed when it comes to the NHS, and more because the market is being distorted and stifled; in particular, by the closed culture of the NHS and powerful, emotive notion of the NHS family. In unprecedentedly tight financial times for the NHS, these findings carry policy implications that should not be ignored.
Laura Brereton holds an MSc in public health/health services management from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a BSc from Boston University (US). She has worked extensively on the impact of ongoing market reforms in the English NHS. Laura is currently a health policy researcher at RAND Europe, where she focuses on health system comparison and chronic disease management. She worked previously in public affairs for health and medical associations in the US and UK. James Gubb is Director of the Health Unit at Civitas, a post he has held since 2007.
His previous publications on health include Checking up on Doctors: a review of the Quality and Outcomes Framework and Putting Patients Last: How the NHS keeps the ten commandments for business failure (with Peter Davies). James also sits on the steering committee of Young Civitas for Medics, a new society set up to involve medical students in health policy discussions, and is a partner in Streetscape, a landscape gardening business that strives to take unemployed young people back into work. He is a regular contributor to print, broadcast and healthcare media on issues concerning the NHS.


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Afonasin Eugene, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; SB RAS Institute of philosophy and law (Novosibirsk, Russia), Head of Department; Novosibirsk State University (Novosibirsk, Russia), Professor
Afonasina Anna, CSc in Philosophy; Novosibirsk State University (Novosibirsk, Russia), Senior Lecturer
Alieva Olga V., CSc in Philology; National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia), Associate Professor
Alymova Elena, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; St Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor
Anderson Olga; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad , Russia), Research Fellow
Anufriev Timofei; St Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student
Begichev Aleksandr; St Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate
Berezovskaya Irina Petrovna, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Assistant Professor; Emperor Alexander I St. Petersburg state transport university (Санкт-Петербург, Russia), Assistant Professor
Biriukov Dmitry, DSc in Philosophy; National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia), Research Fellow
Bogomolov Alexey Vladimirovich, CSc in Philosophy; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad , Russia), Associate Professor
Botka Georgii Nikolaevich; St Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student
Chernoglazov Dmitri, DSc in Philology; St Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor
Danilkina Natalia, CSc in Philosophy; Pskov State University (Pskov, Russia), Postgraduate
Didikin Anton, DSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia), Professor
Dmitrov Igor Igorevich; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student
Dorofeev Daniil, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; St Petersburg Mining University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Head of the Department of Philosophy, Professor
Dudin Artem Olegovich; Khlopin Radium Institute (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Head of the Scientific and Technical Library
Dyomin Rostislav; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Lecturer
Dzhabrailov Ruslan Ilgarovich; National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia), Postgraduate
Ekrogulskaya Alexandra; St Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate
Evlampiev Igor, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; St Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor
Evlampiev Fedor Igorevich; St Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student
Fedorov Denis, CSc in Social science; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad , Russia), Associate Professor
Galanin Rustam, CSc in Philosophy; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Independent scholar, Research Fellow
Garadja Alexei; Russian State University for Humanities (Moscow, Russia), Major Research Fellow
Golovin Alexey Alexseevich ; Institute of the philosophy of a human, Herzen University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate
Gravin Artyom Andreevich, CSc in Technics; Sociological institute of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg, Russia), Researcher; A.M.Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia), Senior Researcher
Grebenkin Oleg; Voronezh Theological Seminary (Voronezh, Russia), Senior Lecturer
Gulakov Ilya Aleksandrovich, Master's student of Herzen University
Guryanov Ilya, CSc in Philosophy; Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (Moscow, Russia), Associate Professor
Ishchenko Nina Sergeevna, CSc in Philosophy; Lugansk State Pedagogical University (Lugansk, LPR, Russia), Assistant Professor
Ismiyeva Valeriya, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Institute of World Civilizations (Moscow, Russia), Associate Professor
Karavaeva Svetlana, CSc in Philosophy; North-Western State Medical University named after I. I. Mechnikov (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Assistant Professor
Katrechko Sergey Leonidovich, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; State Academic University for the Humanities (Moscow, Russia), Associate Professor; Foundation for Humanities (Moscow, Russia), Head of Chair "Studies in Transcendental Philosophy"
Khmara Igor; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Assistant Professor
Khmelevskoi Daniil; Southern Federal University (Rostov-on-Don, Russia), Research Assistant
Kupriyanov Gleb; National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia), Student
Kurbanov Andrey, CSc in History; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Research Assistant
Spyridonova Lydia, CSc in History; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Research Assistant
Kurdybaylo Dmitry, CSc in Philosophy; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Researcher; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Major Research Fellow
Kursenko Ilya Vadimovich; St Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), MA or MSc
Likhter Pavel, CSc in Law; Penza State University (Penza, Russia), Associate Professor
Lugovoy Sergey V., CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad , Russia), Associate Professor
Makhnov Arsenij, Independent scholar
Makovetsky Eugene Anatolievich, DSc in Philosophy; St Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor; Sociological institute of the Russian Academy of Science (Moscow, Russia), Associate Research Fellow
Malyshkin Eugene, DSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; St Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor
Mettini Emiliano, CSc in Pedagogy; Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia), Head of Department
Mochalova Irina, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; St Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor
Narovetskii Maksim; Department of Philosophy, FEB RAS (Vladivostok, Russia), Researcher
Neapolitanskiy Maximilian; St Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student
Nikonenko Sergey, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; St Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor
Nikulin Maksim Sergeevich; Institute of the philosophy of a human, Herzen University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate; Saint Petersburg Theological Academy (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Senior Lecturer; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Senior Lecturer
Nogovitsin Oleg Nikolaevich, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Sociological institute of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg, Russia), Senior Researcher
Ovsyannikov Maxim; Russian State University for Humanities (Moscow, Russia), Postgraduate
Panteleev Aleksey D., CSc in History, Associate Professor; St Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor
Pogoniailo Alexander, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; St Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor
Poliakov Alexander Valerievich; Yuri Gagarin State Technical University of Saratov (Saratov, Russia), Lecturer
Popova Varvara, DSc in Philosophy; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad , Russia), Professor
Prikhodko Maxim, CSc in Philosophy; The Parish of St. Nicolas Russian Orthodox Church (Seville, Spain), priest; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Research Fellow
Protopopov Ivan, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Saint-Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor
Protopopova Irina Aleksandrovna , CSc in Culturology, Associate Professor; Platonic Research Center (Moscow, Russia), Head; Russian State University for Humanities (Moscow, Russia), Major Research Fellow
Rassadin Sergey Valentinovich, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; RAS Institute of Philosophy (Moscow, Russia), Postgraduate, Associate Professor
Rokhmistrov Vladimir, MPh
Safiullina Galina Karimovna; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student
Savinov Rodion, CSc in Philosophy; St Petersburg State Academy of Veterinary Medicine (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor
Savintsev Vyacheslav Igorevich, CSc in Philosophy; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad , Russia), Associate Professor
Segalerba Gianluigi, PhD, Independent scholar
Serkova Vera , DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Professor
Sevastianova Alina Dmitrievna; St. Petersburg State University of Veterinary Medicine (Санкт-Петербург, Russia), Lecturer
Shcherbakov Fedor Borisovitch, CSc in Philosophy; St Petersburg Mining University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), assistent
Shchukin Timur; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate; Sociological institute of the Russian Academy of Science (Moscow, Russia), Associate Research Fellow
Shishkalov Vladimir Nikolaevich, нет
Sinitsyn Alexander, CSc in History, Associate Professor; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Researcher
Sobolnikova Elena, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Mechnikov North-West State Medical University (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor
Sorokina Marina; Herzen University (St. Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate; Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University (Veliky Novgorod, Russia), Teacher
Stavtseva Olga, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Leningrad State University named after A.S. Pushkin (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor
Stepanova Anna, DSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor
Svetlov Roman, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad , Russia), Director of the Higher School of Philosophy, History, and Social science
Tantlevskij Igor, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; St Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Head of Department
Tantlevskaya Elizaveta Igorevna ; St Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Post-graduate
Tonkovidova Anna Viktorovna; Kuban State University of Physical Education, Sports and Tourism (Krasnodar, Russia), Senior Lecturer
Tonoyan Larisa, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Researcher
Trofimova Valeriia Nikolaevna; St Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student
Udalova Valeria; Pushkin Leningrad State University (Vyborg Institute) (Vyborg, Russia), Lecturer
Volf Marina, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Institute of Philosophy and Law of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk, Russia), Director
Volkova Anna Andreevna; National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia), Student
Volodin Andrew Vladimirovich; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad , Russia), Student
Zakroshvili Nino, Researcher
Zemlyakov Gleb Sergeevich; The State budgetary professional educational institution of the Samara region «St. Alexius College of humanitarian and socio-pedagogical disciplines» (Tolyatti, Russia), The teacher
Zolotukhina Anastasia Igorevna, CSc in Philology; National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia), Research Fellow
Olga Stavtseva, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Leningrad State University named after A.S. Pushkin (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor
The report deals with Platonic themes in the existential philosophy of S. Kierkegaard - the image of Socrates and the concept of a moment - based on the analysis of S. Kierkegaard's works "Philosophical crumbs", "Final non-scientific afterword", "The concept of fear". The conclusion is made about the formation of Kierkegaard's non-classical philosophy in close connection with the Platonic heritage, especially the image of Socrates.
Keywords: Socrates, Kierkegaard, irony, moment, existential truth, existence, time, dialectic
Interestingly, one of the founders of non-classical philosophy is the Danish philosopher of the 19th century. S. Kierkegaard in his work repeatedly refers to Platonism. In the report, we will touch on several thematic points.
Firstly, Kierkegaard was inspired by the image of Socrates, he literally tried it on himself, drawing analogies between himself and Socrates, using Socratic moments for his criticism of his contemporaries. For Kierkegaard, the position of ignorance proclaimed by Socrates is primarily important, the Danish thinker, in imitation of Socrates, also says that he himself is not a Christian. Kierkegaard studies and practices irony, "with constant reference to Socrates," as the second part of the title of the Danish philosopher's master's thesis says. The irony of Socrates is necessary for Kierkegaard to develop in his contemporaries a subjective position, which is connected with the task of being oneself.
Secondly, Kierkegaard refers to the Platonic concept of "instant" to clarify the connection between eternity and time, which is important for his definition of existence. In The Concept of Fear, Kierkegaard, in a detailed commentary on Plato's Parmenides, contrasts the ancient understanding of the moment with the Christian one. In Parmenides, the moment is described as the moment from which movement begins, while this moment itself is outside of time. The concept of "instant" as "carrying at a certain time", according to Kierkegaard, as too abstract, as something sudden, invisible, almost "silent atomistic abstraction", he contrasts with the Christian concept of "fullness of time", in which the instant indicates eternity. For the existential thinker Kierkegaard, it is important to understand time not as a continuous flow of moments, but as a certain discreteness in which a choice is made, linking the present, past and future, and thus the temporality of human existence becomes valid.
Thirdly, Kierkegaard calls himself a dialectician, a practitioner of dialectics. It may seem that he learns dialectics from Hegel and the Hegelians, but the furious criticism of the latter forces one to look for the origins of the dialectical method in the thinking of Kierkegaard much earlier . Plato is a dialectical philosopher, who is attractive to Kierkegaard primarily because, thanks to the figure of Socrates, he thinks existentially, including through the introduction of aporias. Kierkegaard disagrees with Hegel on the grounds that he denies the identity of being and thinking.
Due to the stylistic brightness and existential orientation of Kierkegaard's philosophy, the unusualness of his biography, his philosophy is considered too original, based only on his personal choices, but a more thorough analysis of his works indicates something else: the rootedness of his argumentation and posing questions in the classical tradition, as ancient (Plato ), and modern European (Descartes) and German idealism (romantics, Hegel, Schelling). Dialogue with the image of Socrates (in his Platonic authorship) accompanies Kierkegaard's work throughout its entire length, which allows us to conclude that the formation of S. Kierkegaard's existential philosophy took place in a fruitful dialogue with the Platonic heritage.

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Home Business 58,712 Fiji National Provident Fund members have zero balance
58,712 Fiji National Provident Fund members have zero balance
The Fiji National Provident Fund (FNPF) says 58,712 of its members have zero balance in their accounts.
This, according to the FNPF's 2021 annual report tabled in Parliament last Thursday.
The fund said 7196 members between the ages of 50-54 years had zero balance while 6905 between 45-49 had no money at FNPF.
FNPF said 10,780 members between the ages of 35-44 years had nil balance while 6149 in the age category 25-34 years had no funds in their accounts.
"The issue of zero balance accounts is not unique to the fund," the FNPF report said.
"Other superannuation funds around the world also carry zero balance accounts in their membership numbers.
"While some key reasons are similar given the nature of operations and as a long-term customer-based institution, other reasons are unique to the fund.
"The fund is exploring a number of policy changes and operation adjustments to address our membership data and reporting.
"This includes the create an inactive account status for accounts with zero balances and with no transaction over a period of time.
"The fund will continue to improve our membership data and hope to present the new classification in future annual reports."
Meanwhile, the number of Fijians with balances in excess of $500,000 (US$250,000) in their Fiji National Provident Fund accounts has increased to 227, from the 217 recorded in the 2019 annual report.
And the FNPF's 2021 annual report says of the 227, 107 members were above the age of 55 years, 71 were aged between 50 and 54 years, 31 members between 45 and 49 years, and 18 are between 34 and 44 years.
The FNPF report said 836 members had balances between $250,000 (US$125,000) and $500,000 (US$250,000) compared with 796 in 2020. Of the 836, 272 members were between the ages of 50 and 54 years.
FNPF said a total of 7528 members had balances between $100,000 (US$50,000) and $250,000 while 32,043 had balances between $40,000 (US$20,000) and $100,000 (US$50,000).
The fund said 46,508 members had balances between $20,000 (US$10,000) and $40,000 (US$20,000), and 112,516 members had balances between $5000 (US$250,000) and $20,000 (US$10,000).
The remaining 188,288 FNPF members had balances between $1(US$0.50c) and $5000 (US$2,500).
SOURCE: FIJI TIMES/PACNEWS
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The Taipei Kid huh? Don't know what or where Taipei is, so I ventured on in. Next thing I noticed was the url: wanna be my friend.com. Very nice url to snag there. Sure why not, I'll be your friend. Of course you may not want me to be by the time this review is over.
The site loads to a generic black with white and grey text movabletype template. While it is nothing to shout about as the popularity of this template has diminished, it did diminish for a reason. With nothing spectacular to really "look" at, I took a read.
The title of the site is "Rants and raves about Taipei and false childhood memories". Again, an original title, but still not a clue as to what is going to happen here. The posts are a mix of things in the news and what is going on in his life.
One of the more recent political based posts caught my attention when he said he was on tv talking about the election. This got me looking for a link for an about me page to find out more about him. Unfortunately I was unable to find one of these. So I continued my quest to figure out who this author is.
The writing of this site is amazing. The author knows how to starkly get his point across when he wants to, and knows how to just tell it like it is. This is very rare with bloggers as most don't know how to do this.


No, you shouldn't inject both cheats at the same time.
I know that this is barely anything, but at least it's something.
Hey I have just bought the cheat. Any tips on where I should put the file, should I rename it to some random bullcrap or anything like that? And is there maybe like a settings guide to help me get started or is everything really straight forward.
Can i use this cheat at 5EWIN, the china competition client?
So supposedly, your ESP is working fine on esea? and i imagine that if you're being crazy and getting 50 kills a game then admins are more likely to check your screen and ban you, however if your calm and only get 15-20 kills a game, just so its enough to win and not cause suspicion, then the likelihood of admins checking your screen is less right?
We are not detected on 5EWIN but our software won't work on it either.
Not many users play on 5EWIN and the majority of our userbase lives in the EU and NA, so we have not interest into supporting 5EWIN at this moment.
Yes, that is correct! You can use every single ESP feature on ESEA. However! You must be EXTREMELY good at hiding it so you don't get a single report and raise risk of getting yourself manually reviwed. The thing is, our ESP is not screenshot proof and that is one of the main reasons our customers can get banned on ESEA. That's why we recommend our customers to use the EvoLAN on ESEA or buy a CPC.
quick thing though, lets say i was to buy the custom private build you guys offer for 300, can that have a screenshot cleaner or something like that?
You will have to talk to p7cheats over skype for that.


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Mini-Glossary of Geospatial Terms
Pixel – is the smallest unit of a digital image or graphic that can be displayed and represented on a digital display device. A pixel is the basic logical unit in digital graphics. Pixels are combined to form a complete image, video, text or any visible thing on a computer display.
Cluster Analysis – a statistical technique that allows users to identify areas that are similar in some sense
Geographically Weighted Regression – a statistical technique that allows users to identify trends in observations and processes that may be spatial in nature
Hyperspectral Datasets – imagery with multiple bands of spectral data covering narrow frequencies; a traditional multispectral dataset has 4 spectral bands each covering a frequency range of a hundred to several hundred nanometers, versus hyperspectral data which can have 256 spectral bands each covering only a single nanometer of the spectrum
NVDI – a simple analytic technique to assess the health of vegetation, it is calculated as: (Near Infrared – Red) / (Near Infrared + Red)
Object-oriented Classification – an advanced remote sensing technique that identifies clusters of similar pixels based on spectral and spatial characteristics as opposed to traditional unsupervised classifications which identify similar pixels based only on their individual spectral characteristics
Spatial Overlay – a mathematical technique for spatial analysis whereby users assign weighting values to a set of spatial layers and then sum these values for a comprehensive ranking system
Orthorectification – is the process of removing the effects of image perspective (tilt) and relief (terrain) effects for the purpose of creating a planimetrically correct image. The resultant orthorectified image has a constant scale wherein features are represented in their 'true' positions.
Mosaicing – is blending together of several arbitrarily shaped images to form one large radiometrically balanced image so that the boundaries between the original images are not seen.
Digital Elevation Model (DEM) – is a representation of a terrain's surface created from a terrain's elevation data.
Radiometric Resolution – refers to how much information is in a pixel and is expressed in units of bits. A single bit of information represents a binary decision of yes or no, with a mathematical value of 1 or 0.
Spatial Resolution – is a term that refers to the number of pixels utilized in construction of a digital image. Images having higher spatial resolution are composed with a greater number of pixels than those of lower spatial resolution.
Map scale – refers to the relationship (or ratio) between distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the ground. For example, on a 1:100000 scale map, 1cm on the map equals 1km on the ground.
Map Projection – is a way to flatten a globe's surface into a plane in order to make a map. This requires a systematic transformation of the latitudes and longitudes of locations from the surface of the globe into locations on a plane.
Datum – is a model of the earth that is used in mapping. The datum consists of a series of numbers that define the shape and size of the ellipsoid and it's orientation in space. A datum is chosen to give the best possible fit to the true shape of the Earth.
Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) – is a system for assigning coordinates to locations on the surface of the Earth. Like the traditional method of latitude and longitude, it is a horizontal position representation, which means it ignores altitude and treats the earth as a perfect ellipsoid.
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Old and busted: White Supremacy New Hotmess: White Averageism (mediaite.com)
More: Murica, The Star-Spangled Banner, national anthem, social justice, select messages, NFL season, players' helmets, regular season, Megyn Kelly
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Circusdog320
She's ugly on the inside too
Use the mute button or don't watch if it bothers you that much. I have an attention span longer than a goldfish, I don't need to hear the national anthem to be reminded what country I'm in.
physt
conservatives are away so worried about things be shoved down their throats.
Fark it, white lady... pro sports is ONE area where black Americans have a high profile. Why should they stifle their voices to ensure old white people aren't jimmie rustled?
Racists hate being reminded they are racists.
Benevolent Misanthrope
I thought that was Indiana. I swear, I have never seen a people so proud of being "average".
jethroe
Did subby time-travel from 2004 to submit this headline?
dothemath
Lift Every Voice and Sing, which is often referred to as the Black National Anthem.
I thought it was "Whoomp! There It Is!"
I know it is my personal anthem.
The objection I have to "Lift Evry Voice" is that it's a hymn, and I don't really want more religion in public spaces.
It's honestly a better song than the national anthem we do have, and I wish it were more widely known, but I don't support that level of forced religiosity.
PlaidJaguar
Keep yer danged politics out of my sports.
Sports is about two things:
Big meaty men slapping meat
Over the top displays of nationalistic patriotism celebrating the armed forces.
Por que tan serioso
dothemath: Lift Every Voice and Sing, which is often referred to as the Black National Anthem.
"I don't want no scrub."
swahnhennessy
Sports mix with politics all the time. Especially the NFL and its broadcasters. Aside from the standard fetishization of the military and jingoistic truck ads every 3 minutes, we've seen both Dennis Miller and Rush Limbaugh in the booth.
God forbid they throw a bone to the majority of their players.
Hoblit
She's definitely trash.
I can't help but agree with her a little on the following:
"...we're one country," Kelly said. "We don't need separate anthems."
So I vote we just don't do either anthem. I'm sick of that propaganda anyway.
/How many native Americans have to stand, take off their hat, put their hand over their heart, and sing the national anthem?
Eravior
Huh. There's a Black National Anthem?
the Jeffersons intro theme song(Movin on Up)
I think my brain might be racist.
Squid_for_Brains
Oh hey I found the National Anthem for Fox News
Grungehamster
danvon
~70% of the NFL players are African-American. If the "average" American can tolerate watching a minority dominated sport, then the "average" American can deal with an anthem that celebrates, or shows respect to, a majority of the participants.
Someone Else's Alt
Making white people uncomfortable while watching sportsball is not allowed in this country. White TV lady says so.
If you are a white person that is uncomfortable with pro black messaging, while watching a sport that is dominated by black athletes, you may need to ask yourself why that is.
palelizard
"I don't think that the average American - Black or White - wants to hear the Black national anthem before they hear the national anthem..."
I don't actually care. I don't particularly want to hear the national anthem either, but I'll say neither hurts me or degrades me in any way, or hurts who I am. If it bothers you, you should be thinking about why rather than how.
jake_lex
swahnhennessy: Sports mix with politics all the time. Especially the NFL and its broadcasters. Aside from the standard fetishization of the military and jingoistic truck ads every 3 minutes, we've seen both Dennis Miller and Rush Limbaugh in the booth.
If this blonde idiot had had a job in 1947, she'd be decrying the Brooklyn Dodgers signing Jackie Robinson as "woke" and that average Americans don't want to see someone like them out there.
anjin-san
Megyn Kelly Rips NFL for Shoving 'Race Based' Messaging on Fans: 'Average Americans' Don't Want the 'Black National Anthem'
Why not? It's a good song. Conservatives should be thrilled a song with powerful religious overtones is being played on national television. I thought that's what they wanted? If nobody told them it was unofficially known as the "Black National Anthem" they would love this.
JustLookin
I'm Team "Scoop, There It Is."
Fart_Machine
AVERAGE HOMEBOY - DENNY BLAZIN HAZEN - OFFICIAL VIDEO
sophus_tree
Hoblit: She's definitely trash.
"I don't think people want politics in their sports,"
Then why do they sing the national anthem before games?
I don't care to hear either of them before a sportsball game, but if I gotta Lift Every Voice and Sing certainly is a better jam.
Playing both for most folks at the stadium just means more time to wait in line for nachos
Megyn Kelly thinks "End Racism," "Stop Hate," "It Takes All of Us," "Black Lives Matter," "Inspire Change" and "Say Their Stories" are divisive messages.
JustLookin: Megyn Kelly thinks "End Racism," "Stop Hate," "It Takes All of Us," "Black Lives Matter," "Inspire Change" and "Say Their Stories" are divisive messages.
I mean she should consider it divisive, if they end racism and stop hate she'll no longer have an audience.
I Browse
Yes, that's the official black national anthem. But any black person who's ever been to a cookout (which is to say all of us besides Candace Owens, Larry Elder, and Alan West) knows this is the real black national anthem:
Frankie Beverly And Maze - Before I Let Go
Meh, post stories about Megyn Kelly when she's doing something worthy of her intellect, like MILF porn. No other reason to read anything by her or about her.
derpes_simplex
gonegirl: The objection I have to "Lift Evry Voice" is that it's a hymn, and I don't really want more religion in public spaces.
It started as a poem by James Weldon Johnson. It only became a hymn (in some hymnals) later on. God isn't even mentioned until the 5th stanza.
In other words ... Lighten up Francis.
Yakk
Average White Band - Pick Up The Pieces
dracos31
Conservatives are literally the biggest delicate snowflakes in existence. Every accusation is a confession strikes again!
bighairyguy
The social commentary and social change push through sports is unfortunately happening because it couldn't gain any real traction through regular means. And it still gained traction, eventually, despite Kaepernick's poorly planned and worsely executed knee-taking. Fortunately, more organized and articulate people finally figured what he was sort of trying to accomplish.
CheatCommando
Considering the state of the nation today, I believe a decent replacement for the national anthem may well be Stuck in the Middle With You.
Well, yes. Megyn Kelly's idea of getting along is "fall In line, do what you're told". She's a fascist, she supports fascists, and her response to being attacked by fascists was to carry more water for fascists.
saintstryfe
JustLookin: dothemath: Lift Every Voice and Sing, which is often referred to as the Black National Anthem.
SPRINKLES.
Puglio
I'm only in favor of it if they stand for the black one and kneel for the other one.
DrD'isInfotainment
Hey Meggers, America would probably welcome a Black National Anthem
They already have.
spongeboob
And The Trump anthem is
Tag Team Helps With Dessert - GEICO Insurance
vrax
Firstly: No national anthems. Fark the national anthem!
Secondly: How does playing the "Black national anthem" help anything at a sportsball event? It's basically as low effort as it gets. When the teams start giving millions of dollars to civil rights and other organizations that can actually make a change and use their outsized weight to push for political change directly, then I'll give them credit. Playing a song? Fark off!
Quick and Dirty
Holy sh*t, we're back? We've been waiting for all this time with our chest hair & half-unbuttoned silk shirts -- what with our split-ends & bad embroidery.
LADIES, THE WHITE AVERAGE IS BACK!
Bread - Make it with you (1970)
Malenfant
physt: conservatives are away so worried about things be shoved down their throats.
Nah. They hate being reminded that racists are considered to be trash. They love talking to each other about their malicious racism.
ToastmasterGeneral
Ah! There's the Megyn Kelly i know and love!
For a moment there, the narrative was that she changed somehow (because she was actually trying to HELP Trump deal with the obvious challenges appealing to women that he had.) But deep down, we all knew that sorta standing up to Trump, and going to MSNBC, and pretending like white knighting the white race wasn't her goal, were all just passing fads. I'm glad to see her return to type. It has been far too long since someone has told me that Santa Claus was really Santa Claucasian. And I was REALLY worried that my first grader might grow up not hearing that while he's yellow on the outside, Spongebob is really all white internally.
cocozilla
fsbilly
I'm guessing zero people of color want to be systemically oppressed for centuries, either, yet here we are.
1funguy
Really, tho, any mindlessness to numb out reality...religion, sports, politics...
Drugs and alcohol for some people.
I prefer to combine mine. Shrooms and politics is my favorite, but in a pinch alcohol and arguing politics while football (american) is on will do.
Football (soccer) is great with alcohol, lots of bawdy, disrespectful songs regarding possible lineage of miserable players.
God is often invoked late in most games. Generally, he is less likely to provide requested plagues and socially transmitted diseases on demand regardless of the team.
The explanations offered for the need of these diseases are suspect at best, but any corner kick not resulting in the evisceration of the goalie is almost certainly the fault of one of the forwards parents having a job washing camels, and therefore the incompetence of the player. It does seem unrelated the farther from alcohol one becomes.
So, I guess religion is acceptable in certain circumstances, but god doesn't seem to be as willing to join in as most people would suggest.
tintar
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ToastmasterGeneral: Ah! There's the Megyn Kelly i know and love!
She's just another moral-free, political sellsword. A pathetically awful lot.
thehobbes
ToastmasterGeneral: For a moment there, the narrative was that she changed somehow (because she was actually trying to HELP Trump deal with the obvious challenges appealing to women that he had.) But deep down, we all knew that sorta standing up to Trump, and going to MSNBC, and pretending like white knighting the white race wasn't her goal, were all just passing fads.
How much money did the networks toss at her?
LarryDan43
Stop shoving the national anthem down our throats while at the same time saying masks don't work and you don't trust the government.
spongeboob: dothemath: Lift Every Voice and Sing, which is often referred to as the Black National Anthem.
[YouTube video: Tag Team Helps With Dessert - GEICO Insurance]
Hey now, don't you desecrate one of the finer pieces of advertising to come out in the past few years by bringing that Trump coont into it.
$10 a month since 19 aught diddly.
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Djibouti Votes
A Djiboutian casts his vote for president in Djibouti, East Africa, Friday, April 8, 2011.
Election officials in Djibouti say President Ismail Omar Guelleh has been re-elected, giving him an unprecedented third term leading the small Red Sea state.
Election officials in Djibouti say President Ismail Omar Guelleh has been re-elected, giving him an unprecedented third term leading the small Red Sea state. The Djibouti Ministry of the Interior reports that the president received about 80 percent of the April 8th vote to 20 percent for Mohamed Warsama, former president of the Constitutional Court.
The United States looks forward to reviewing the findings of the independent election observers who monitored the balloting, which was boycotted by some opposition parties unhappy with President Guelleh's decision to run again. Observers from the African Union, League of Arab States and other groups followed the vote, including 50 from the U.S. Embassy there.
The United States supports the right of the people of Djibouti to choose their own president, and at the same time has strongly advocated that the government expand the political space and allow the opposition to participate fully in electoral competition. We believe that steady political reform will enhance stability in this strategically important country.
We look forward to continuing a U.S. Agency for International Development program there on elections and political processes, with a view of enhancing free and fair competition for the regional council elections and parliamentary elections in the coming years.
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When are you going to know what's in your milk?
Consumer Stapes Industry Outlook Consumer stapes industry outlook Consumer stape industries, which include ice cream, ice cream bars, ice tea, ice creams, and ice cream drinks, are growing faster than the rest of the food industry, according to a report by the Consumer Products Industry Association (CPIA).
According to CPIA, total U.S. sales of dairy products increased 1.6% in 2016, while the total U,S.
volume of ice cream decreased 3.2%.
Meanwhile, sales of ice creamed products fell 0.6%, while ice cream products increased 2.1%.
The report noted that the market is expected to grow by 5% in 2021, with sales growth in the category of ice and non-alcoholic beverages likely to be higher than that of the dairy products market.
CPIA expects the dairy market to continue to grow until 2036, with growth expected to be driven by higher milk prices, which it expects to be between $3.50 and $3,75 per gallon.
The report also notes that ice cream sales are expected to increase by 0.5% in 2020, and by 2.5%, by 2021.
The market for ice cream will likely continue to increase, CPIA says, as demand for ice creameries is expected in 2021.
"Demand for ice and other beverages is expected at the higher end of the price range," the report said.
"As demand for nonalcoholic drinks continues to increase across the industry, ice will remain a significant market."
CPIA said that it expects the ice cream market to be dominated by two brands: the Dairy Queen brand and the Lululemon brand.
Dairy Queen ice cream is already a dominant market in the U.K., with the company currently selling an estimated $2 billion worth of ice.
According to the CPIA report, sales growth for the Lulu brand will be between 3.4% and 3.8% in the next five years, while sales growth from the Dairy King brand will likely be between 2.9% and 4.3%.
"The Dairy King and Lullemon brands are the two most dominant brands in the market," the CPIE said.
Lulululeman Ice Cream Sales: 2015 to 2020 (CPI) Sales Growth for Dairy King, Lulu: 2.7% to 3.3% Lululus sales growth is expected over the next 5 years: 3.5%-4% LULULU Sales Growth: 2020 to 2021 (CPi) Growth for Lululo: 3-4% In 2021, CPI expects sales growth to be in the range of 4.5-5% for the two Lulules brands.
"Sales growth for these brands are expected between 3-5%.
This represents growth in both growth and market share," the study says.
"Lululemans ice cream volume growth is predicted to be up to 10% in this period, while growth from Dairy King will be around 6-7%."
CPIA also noted that it is forecasting that the average cost of ice will increase from $1.49 per serving in 2020 to $1,79 in 2021 with the average price of a serving increasing from $2.50 to $3 per serving.
"The average cost for the average Lululiun ice cream purchase will increase to $2 per serving, which will translate to a price increase of approximately 8% for consumers," CPIA noted.
"This price increase will translate into a 20% price increase in the average customer."
The CPIA study also noted the potential for more consumer loyalty among ice cream drinkers.
"While consumer loyalty is expected for ice, it is not clear if this will be the case for other ice flavors and/or dairy products," CPI said.
CPI predicts that Lulumas consumer loyalty will be higher among women, younger consumers, and those who purchase ice more frequently.
"For Lulula, we expect this to be true across the board and that its consumer loyalty has a greater impact than other ice brands," CPIE added.
"We also expect that LULU will be one of the most loyal ice brands, with a much larger percentage of its customers who say they will purchase LULURU ice cream for life."
CPI's research is based on its analysis of data from consumer surveys conducted in the first quarter of 2020.
CPII research is sponsored by the CPI Association, which represents about 2,000 manufacturers and manufacturers of specialty foods, beverages, and consumer products.
CPIII research is supported by the Institute for Consumer Research, which is a private research group in the United States.
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Malformed UTF-8 characters, possibly incorrectly encoded

while I did have success passing the array with using utf8_encode to the data in Hebrew, the text turned into
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מערכת רישומית
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When Apologia's Exploring Creation with Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day by Jeannie K. Fulbright arrived to be reviewed, I was thrilled because my son loves animals, especially flying insects! Let me tell you a little bit about this book on flying creatures that were created on the fifth day. This elementary/middle school age textbook can be understood by every age and grade level, but I would recommend 4th through 7th grade.
Along with reading the textbook, suggestions to complete the course include narration, notebooking, projects, and experiments. Narration is simply the student telling Mom about what he/she has just finished reading orally or in writing. Conversation with Mom is a great way to remember the material. I love reading textbooks aloud with my children, no matter what age, but upper elementary children and older will have no problem reading it on their own with understanding.
Notebooking activities often involve narration. Here is an example from lesson 9, A First Look at Insects. "Write down what you remember from the lesson in your notebook. The topics we covered were: classification of insects, exoskeletons, eyes, heads, antennae, the three types of mouths, the thorax, and the abdomen. See how much you can remember from each of these topics. Record it on paper and make illustrations......After you have written down what you learned, draw an insect with every feature that makes an insect an insect..." (Page 145 of the textbook) Other times notebooking activities are more light-hearted, such as making an advertisement.
Projects and experiments are varied and include making an insect zoo, building a birdhouse, discovering which color birds prefer, building a bird bath, discovering which food birds prefer, or a nature scavenger hunt. All experiments and projects are easy and fun!
Topics covered in this textbook: what is zoology?, classification, extinction, bird watching, what makes a bird a bird, bird feathers, flying, nesting, matching & hatching, bats, flying reptiles, insects, insect life cycles, social insects, beetles, flies, interesting insects, and lepidoptera. If you want want to learn more, there is a password for the course website where students and teachers can dig deeper. But, I can't give you the password. You have to buy the book for yourself! But do check out Apologia's website!
I also received Exploring Creation with General Science by Dr. Jay L. Wile to review and was thrilled! One more Apologia textbook to add to my growing collection: all the high school textbooks, zoology, botany, and physical science.
Exploring Creation with General Science is written for middle schoolers, but could be read aloud to younger children or even used by high schoolers. What a neat textbook! It covers so many different topics: a little bit of physics, some earth science and geology, some biology, and several chapters on anatomy! I love the way it touches on a little bit of every kind of science. The only science not really addressed is chemistry.
Like all the other Apologia textbooks, this one contains the "Need Help?" pages with every possible way for you to receive the help you need to teach General Science to your child. There is also a companion CD available with video and animation to accompany the textbook. The multimedia CD also gives pronunciations and works out problems related to the material. This textbook has a special website too.
Exploring Creation with General Science is a beautiful book! There are lovely charts, graphs, illustrations, photographs, and funny cartoons to keep your interest throughout the whole book. I enjoyed leafing through the entire book. The illustrations of body systems and organs are bright, colorful, and easy to understand. Well-written and easy to understand, your middle school student will have no problem reading this book on his/her own. However, the whole family may enjoy listening to Mom read it aloud too!
This is the best General Science textbook I've read! For the vast amount of information that is covered, great detail is shared without it being dry and boring. Another great job, Apologia!
Christ-centered with an emphasis on the wonder of God's living creatures, we have used Apologia's Exploring Creation with Biology in our home for years. In fact, Jimmy will be using this textbook next year in ninth grade for Biology. I was thrilled to receive another copy of Exploring Creation with Biology by Dr. Jay L. Wile to review.
Exploring Creation with Biology is the best biology textbook I have ever seen. With a Bachelors degree in nursing, I have taken my fair share of biology classes and read numerous science textbooks at the high school and college level. I am impressed with the thorough coverage in Exploring Creation with Biology.
The "On Your Own" Questions, throughout the module, have answers at the end of each module. Also, at the end of each module is a study guide for the student to fill out in preparation for the tests.
Exploring Creation with Biology is another beautiful book! You could spend hours just looking at the pictures, reading the charts, and looking at the diagrams.
These textbooks are not cheap, but worth the price!
For the biology class, you can purchase a microscope, slide set with microscope, a microscope slide set alone,or a dissection kit with specimens. Everything else you need for the course can be found around your house or picked up at Wal Mart.
Do not underestimate the effect that the study of science has on your child's walk with the Lord. As the Word of God reminds us, "For since the Creation of the World, God's invisible qualities--His eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse," (Romans 1:20 NIV).
Nature reveals the glory of God. Studying God's Creation from a perspective that gives honor and glory to Him changes us from the inside out! As we behold his power and divine nature, we cannot help but be amazed and impressed! Introduce your children to the Amazing Creator and the wonders He has made!
Yes, in case you haven't guessed, I highly recommend these textbooks! Blessings to all you mothers of future scientists in the service of their Creator-King! Happy Homeschooling! Enjoy the journey of learning more about God and His Creation!


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GOP congressional majority likely to change way it crunches numbers
Rep. Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), left, Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) and House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) arrive for a Republican strategy session on Capitol Hill in Washington. Ryan is poised to take charge of the House Ways and Means Committee as leaders are chosen for the new 114th Congress that convenes in January.
(J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press)
By Jim Puzzangherawriter
Reporting from washington —
The incoming Republican majority in Congress is preparing to give number-crunching a controversial twist, and the new math could make it easier for the GOP to cut taxes.
For years, leading GOP lawmakers have wanted to change the way that the nonpartisan congressional staff calculates — or, in Washington parlance, scores — the budgetary cost of changes to the tax code.
Budget scoring now is fairly straightforward: Just figure out how much more money a tax increase would produce for the Treasury or how much a tax cut would cost in lost revenue.
Republicans, however, want two key congressional offices to use complex models to try to predict the broader effect of hikes and cuts on the economy. The process is called dynamic scoring.
"I prefer to call it reality-based scoring," Rep. Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), the incoming chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, said in a recent speech to financial executives.
He and other Republicans said the current process fails to take into account the idea that tax cuts can increase economic growth — and therefore government revenue — by encouraging businesses and individuals to invest more.
"We can do so much more in measuring effects of tax changes," Ryan said.
But Democrats have their own description of dynamic scoring. They call it voodoo economics, a term dating to the Reagan administration's trickle-down economic theory in the 1980s, holding that more money for the wealthiest eventually makes its way to everybody else.
"What's dynamic about it?" asked Rep. Sander M. Levin (D-Mich.), the panel's top Democrat. "It can backfire."
The Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation produce cost estimates for legislation that typically assume the overall size of the economy and the workforce remain fixed. That provides a baseline with which to compare different types of legislation.
Dynamic scoring produces cost estimates using scientific models that take into account how the economy and workforce might change if a bill is enacted.
Democrats have strongly opposed the mechanism in congressional policymaking, saying that the methodology is unreliable and that the basic premise that tax cuts won't increase the budget deficit is false.
There's no consensus among economists on the arcane issue, which is fiercely debated among liberal and conservative budgetary experts.
"Those on the left, who think it's the end of Western civilization, need to calm down," said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the conservative-leaning American Action Forum think tank and a former Congressional Budget Office director.
"And those on the right, who think it's a magic bullet to make policymaking easier, I think are going to be sadly disappointed," he said.
In April, the Republican-controlled House voted 224-182 in favor of a bill that would require dynamic scoring estimates on major legislation. The Democratic-controlled Senate never took it up.
But when Republicans take control of the Senate in January to go along with their strengthened House majority, they will be in a position to make the change.
By controlling both sides of Capitol Hill, they are expected to direct the Joint Committee on Taxation and the Congressional Budget Office to add dynamic scoring cost estimates to major bills.
By doing so, Republican could advance one of their top legislative priorities: an overhaul of the business tax code.
"Tax reform has been and will continue to be a long and difficult process," Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), incoming chairman of the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, said in a speech this month.
"I believe the expanded and sensible use of dynamic analysis can, if done correctly, be an important tool to help us achieve our goals," he said.
Republicans have committed to an overhaul that would eliminate some tax breaks and reduce the corporate tax rate to 25% from 35% without increasing the budget deficit.
Using standard congressional scoring, Republicans would have to cut a host of tax breaks coveted by businesses to accomplish the goal. Dynamic scoring could alter that equation.
"At the end of the day, it may mean that you don't have to eliminate as many loopholes as you might have thought you had to," said Scott Hodge, president of the nonpartisan Tax Foundation.
The concept has been around for years, and Hodge said its time has come.
"I liken it to instant replay in baseball," he said, noting Major League Baseball's long resistance before adopting it this year.
"As people watched umpires make bad calls, they really felt they needed to give them more information to get the call right," Hodge said. "We're at that point with tax and budget scoring where the scorekeepers need more information to get the call right."
The Congressional Budget Office said it takes into account some behavioral changes that could be triggered by legislation, but does not do broader dynamic scoring because "estimates of macroeconomic effects are highly uncertain."
Still, dynamic scoring estimates have been made for some legislative proposals to provide lawmakers with additional information on top of the standard determinations of budgetary effects.
Last year, the Congressional Budget Office incorporated some dynamic scoring components into its cost estimate for the bipartisan immigration overhaul that later passed the Senate.
The office said it did so because the bill, with its path to citizenship for about 11 million people in the country illegally, would significantly increase the size of the U.S. labor force.
The CBO concluded that the legislation would reduce the budget deficit by $197 billion in its first decade and an additional $700 billion in the following decade.
Then in February, the Joint Committee on Taxation provided a dynamic estimate for a tax reform plan by outgoing Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) using two different models and a variety of economic assumptions.
The estimate said the plan, which included reducing the corporate rate to 25%, could increase tax revenues by $50 billion to $700 billion over a decade, depending on which model is used.
Supporters of dynamic scoring point to the Camp estimate as an example of how tax cuts can increase economic growth, though the information was admittedly not precise.
"It gives us a more realistic idea of how fiscal policy changes will affect the economy," said Curtis Dubay, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.
Critics said the wide range of the estimate on Camp's proposal showed the limitations of dynamic scoring.
Edward Kleinbard, a former chief of staff to the Joint Committee on Taxation, said the process has a fatal flaw: "No person alive" can correctly predict the future path of the economy because there are too many variables.
"It's like trying to map out the mating dance of butterflies along the side of a highway," said Kleinbard, a USC professor of law and business. "Just when you think you've seen an interesting pattern, a tractor-trailer goes by and blows the butterflies away.
"There are too many big things that can happen in the economy."
jim.puzzanghera@latimes.com
Jim Puzzanghera
Jim Puzzanghera covered business and economic issues from the Los Angeles Times' Washington, D.C., bureau. He joined The Times in 2006 and won the paper's Editor's Award in 2009 for coverage of the financial crisis. He has worked in the nation's capital since 1998 and is a two-time National Press Club award winner for Washington coverage. A Northwestern University graduate, he previously worked for the San Jose Mercury News, Newsday and the St. Petersburg Times. He left The Times in 2019.


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Hyde Park is one of the 4 subbarrios of Hato Rey Sur, itself one of 18 barrios of the municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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Hato Rey, Puerto Rico
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The webinar series comprises of 15 session starting from today till the end of the month April 2015. …Nothing fancy here, just introduction and demo of Azure product features. But what caught my eyes is the name they given to the series, Azure Vidyapeeth.
If you're interested in learning this Microsoft Cloud computing/hosting technology? Go ahead and register there for free, and don't forget to check the Botpress site as well!
PS: There's mobile app exclusively created for Azure Vidyapeeth for WindowsPhone. I hope the same app is available for other mobile platforms.
This entry was posted in technology on April 8, 2015 by Johny.


A new report from the Department of Transportation says just 7 streets throughout the five boroughs are responsible for nearly half of New York's pedestrian fatalities. These target roads will become the target of de Blasio's Vision Zero program, which aims to make streets safer for pedestrians by adding things like crosswalks and speed cameras and increasing police enforcement. You can expect extra safety measures coming to stretches of Westchester Avenue in the Bronx, Linden Blvd in Brooklyn, Columbus Avenue in Manhattan, Rockaway Blvd in Queens, and Lincoln Avenue on Staten Island.


Great hotel and good price- have a wonderful breakfast- and very friendly staff. Love how close it is to the aquarium and other fun places. I have stayed here twice and both times have been happy with it.
Room was exceptionally small for a 4 night stay. There was no chair beside the desk chair at the computer desk, so one had to use the bed for reading or watching TV..
Nice motel good value for money.
Enjoyed the experience and plan on staying there in the future.


This is a full size sketch of a hand holding a drawing board in place while the other hand draws on it. I drew this with graphite pencil then painted it very quickly with watercolor and a brush. The skin tone you see is the 'flesh" color of that particular brand of watercolors. I did not mix or dilute it except as usual with water to make brush pick up the paint. I was drawing using my own left hand as my model but I drew it larger than my hand. My own hand is visible in part in the lower right corner. You will see the difference in skin tone between my actual white flesh and the watercolor "flesh pink" paint. I didn't let that worry me much since people come in all shades of white, tan, brown, black, and olive so anybody could think what they want about this sketch. This sketch is on 8 x 11 paper that I sized to begin with using a vegetable starch paste to make the paper impermeable to water. I clipped the paper to my own portable drawing board to photograph it and got it lop-sided again. I really have to remember to use a carpenter's level or something since I seem at times to see things lop-sidedly.I made this, signed it, photographed it, uploaded it and posted it. I had to login back in to add this statement and when I did a wire tap notice came on my cell phone. I am praying its the good FBI not the bad [criminal 2nd exhusband DBP] stalker trying to get info of mine. Copyrighted.
You can follow me on twitter at these accounts of mine: @gloriapoole; @gloria_poole; @Tartan_Bliss; @tweetie0817; @ProlifeNurse; and @personhood1. The two obvious prolife twitter names are specifically for me to tweet on the issues of the prolife and personhood cause of saving the human race from the premeditated destruction by evil killing organization named Planned Parenthood. Each twitter is different but there is some similar content but I do not conform them and I categorize them sort of on topics to discuss.
Also, you can follow one of my blogs with RSS. The feed for my blog gpoole817 is http://feeds.feedburner.com/TalkingwalkingPainting. Or you can see the posts at the bottom of this blog listed as links [in red]. Also, remember that I do not have a boss nor a supervisor and all telephones listed on this account belong to me and are physically in my apt in Missouri. See statement at bottom of post. Also remember that I work from my own private apt for my own purposes and have no need for employees. I received a resume sent to my email but did not reply to it because I have never posted anywhere at any time any offer of employment of any sort.
This is my 2016 personal logo I painted yesterday to add to my blogs as a way of marking the change to the new year. Copyrighted.
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And other blogs, sites and opublic albums of mine that include art I made and photographs I photographed.


What three themes are introduced here? What is the righteous life that God desires? What more is to be done than just hearing the Word?
Why would favoritism be a problem in this setting? How do Abraham and Rahab prove James' point? What kind of faith is being criticized?
Why is stricter judgment placed upon teachers? How is it possible for human beings to both curse others and praise God?
How is James' ten-fold prescription an effective antidote? How does this cure fit the other themes in James? What are some outward signs of this inner submission to God?
What lessons are provided by the farmer? The returning Judge? By the prophets? By Job?


Open Sunday Sept 13th, 1230-2pm. Perfect starter home! Well maintained colonial style home in desirable Riverdale neighborhood. Oversized 2 car garage is great for keeping cars out of the snow in the winter or for a mechanic or tradesperson to use as a workshop. You may be able to repurpose the space for a hobby or as a man town...the possibilities go on!!! Kitchen has been remodeled with oak wood cabinets and granite counters. 1st floor has a good size living room which opens to dining area (hardwoods under carpet). The spacious front porch has remodel potential for extra living space. 2 beds with hardwoods upstairs with small 3rd room, good for walk in closet. Bath in good shape. There is a separate storage shed for lawn equipment etc. Private, lovely screened in back deck overlooks low maintenance yard. Great neighborhood. Perfect for dog lovers. . .walk to Riverside Park on the Charles River. Riverdale elementary school is right around the corner. Your next chapter may begin here!


Welcome to Motoview presented by Thor MX Australia on MotoOnline.com.au and, three weeks into the new year, January has flown by. No doubt, the man of the moment is Toby Price coming off of a second Dakar Rally win in Peru and arriving home to an immense reception on Sunday.
As we do every year, we closely followed Price's progress through the rally's 10 stages and it was spectacular to see him maintain the lead once he got there with a couple of stages to run. That final day was a nerve-wracking one, but in the end he got the job done.
It's always mega to see Australia get behind Price at this time of the year, his achievements certainly being recognised and it was even a plus to see the mainstream news meet him on arrival in Brisbane. Since then he's been involved in a variety of media activities and there's been little time to rest.
Price confirmed yesterday that he has further damaged his wrist as a result of the 5000 kilometres and will undergo surgery to help his scaphoid heal from this point. He doesn't have a lot of time to recover however, as the opening round of the Cross-Country Rallies World Championship is scheduled for the end of March with the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge.
Elsewhere, right around the corner is the brand new bLU cRU 2-Stroke Amateur Nationals, operated by Williams Event Management – the MX Nationals organisers – and beginning in a few weeks on 10 February at Traralgon, Victoria. There will be two more rounds following that, at Coolum and Canberra.
It's clear that riders are right into two-strokes, so with multiple classes for Junior (65cc, 85cc and 125cc) and Senior (All Powers and All Powers Retro) riders there will be a lot of interest in this series from a competitor's perspective. We'll also follow it where we can and look forward to seeing it all take place.
Hasn't the start of the 2019 Monster Energy AMA Supercross Championship been an odd one? Three rounds in and we've witnessed three different winners, two being career-first victories in Blake Baggett (Rocky Mountain ATV/MC KTM) and Cooper Webb (Red Bull KTM Factory Racing).
Webb's victory has been a long time coming, and he really rode to the level he became known for at A2's Triple Crown. That last lap pass on Ken Roczen (Team Honda HRC) in the first main? That was something pretty special from the youthful talent. His graduation to the premier class has been somewhat lacklustre, failing to make a significant impact following a lot of hype from his 250 days.
It seems the change of scenery at KTM, along with training with teammate Marvin Musquin (Red Bull KTM Factory Racing) at Aldon Baker's facility is proving to be a fruitful combination, and hopefully this is just the beginning for a reinvigorated Cooper Webb as he sits third in the standings.
The championship is anyone's – there are no clear favourites after the way the first three rounds unfolded, and just seven points separate the first five riders in the standings with Roczen leading the charge, two markers ahead of Eli Tomac (Monster Energy Kawasaki).
News rolled through this morning that the series will be without a significant contender – defending champion Jason Anderson. The Rockstar Energy Husqvarna Factory ace suffered multiple injuries to his arm and ribs in a practice crash this week, forcing him out of the title hunt as he undergoes surgery. It's a bitter blow for the number one, who'd been experiencing a mixed start to his championship defence.
It seems as though Australian fan-favourite Chad Reed (JGRMX Yoshimura Suzuki Factory Racing) hasn't been able to catch a break, although he's been showing strong signs of promise at 36 years of age. Remember that inspiring heat race performance he put in at Glendale? Well, unfortunately that didn't translate in the main.
Looking to make a mends at A2, the number 22 experienced a rare and bizarre mechanical – the thread stripped to his clutch cover – a factory piece of equipment – causing oil to leak on the line for race, ultimately preventing him from starting. In typical Reed fashion, he bounced back for an impressive fifth in the final encounter, proving he still has the speed to mix it up with the leaders.
Lastly, if you weren't aware, Aussie Tomas Ravenhorst has been trying his luck in the 250SX West category. Unfortunately, he hasn't made a main just yet – which is his goal – although he has come incredibly close. He's on the cusp of making the big show, and we think his time is just around the corner.


Thu 2 Mar 2017 – The goal of stabilising rather than reducing emissions from international aviation through the use of international carbon credits fell below EU climate ambitions but the agreement reached at the ICAO Assembly last October on the CORSIA scheme starting in 2021 was a welcome and necessary first step on climate action for the sector, Climate Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete told EU environment ministers at a Council meeting on Wednesday. The EU's responsibility now, he said, was to make the scheme work and improve it over time, consistent with the goals agreed under the Paris Agreement. Intensive ongoing negotiations at ICAO on the rulebook and governance of the scheme were challenging, he reported. The Commission proposes a continuation of the EU ETS 'stop the clock' (STC) legislation until 2020 to allow for the discussions to continue, with further assessment needed to ensure the aviation sector contributed to EU 2030 climate targets. Cañete urged the Council to swiftly reach an agreement with the European Parliament on STC.
He said the effectiveness and credibility of CORSIA (Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation) relied on implementing key rules on transparency and accounting, including double-counting avoidance and the quality of offsets to be used for compliance.
The EU was well advanced on transposing the required legislation on CORSIA implementation but this was not the case in most countries, he told ministers.
However, he went on, there was a responsibility to both support the ongoing discussions in ICAO and ensure the EU acted on aviation emissions so that the sector contributed to European climate objectives, first by 2020 and later by the EU-wide target of reducing emissions by at least 40% compared to 1990 levels by 2030.
The present STC scope of the EU ETS, which is restricted to covering emissions from intra-EEA (European Economic Area) flights, was working well, he said, with compliance – including by airlines from third countries – very high at 99%. The Aviation EU ETS was also contributing carbon emission reductions of 17 million tonnes under the cap, he reported.
He said an agreement had been reached with EU Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc to propose a continuation of the reduced scope of the Aviation EU ETS until 2020.
He said the European Commission proposed to report back to the Council on developments and come up at a later date with new amendments to the Aviation EU ETS to make it consistent with the 2030 target.
CORSIA applied to intra- and extra-EEA flights, while maintaining the legal base for EU action.
The ministers at the Environment Council were meeting to discuss and vote on proposals for the EU ETS in the 2021-2030 period as a whole, which include tougher rules that would also apply to aviation. The proposals were carried by a majority vote.
Cañete told the ministers that in the meantime there was "an imperative necessity" for the Council to reach a swift co-decision with the European Parliament with regard to the 2017-2020 period of the Aviation EU ETS, in which the Commission proposes to continue with STC. Under present legislation, STC ended in 2016 and provides for an automatic snap-back to the full scope of the EU ETS that covers both intra- and extra-EEA flights.
"Any delay or failure to reach a timely agreement means that we would automatically revert back to the original full scope with all the implications this would immediately have with our international partners," he said.
Representing EU member states as the current President of the Environment Council, Malta's environment minister Jose Herrera said work in the Council was already underway on the Commission's response to the CORSIA agreement and the next steps on the EU ETS.


I think Santa and I are becoming friends again.
As long as I can remember, I've had a conflicted relationship with the jolly old elf.
As a child I was skeptical. I have some vivid memories of my life at age 4 and 5, but not many of Santa or Christmas. My most intimate memory of meeting Santa was when I was 6, the year we moved from Ann Arbor, Mich., to Thunder Bay.
My parents, my two brothers and I were learning to ski that winter. Six days before Christmas in 1971, I broke my leg. It was my second day skiing and second run down the bunny hill. The ski patrol didn't have a splint, so they made one out of a box that new skis come in and some duct tape. I spent Dec. 19th to the 23rd at the hospital, learning how to walk on crutches.
One of those days, Santa paid a visit. I was in a wheelchair in the hallway when he arrived, Ho Ho Ho-ing and handing out candy canes. As he came near I noticed his beard was fake. This clearly was not Santa.
Last year in this column I wrote how I'd become a Grinch, upset by the commercialization of Christmas. I felt Western society's biggest holiday had lost almost all of its spiritual meaning. I had 6-month-old twins and I was hoping becoming a father would return some of the magic.
A year later, I can say my distaste for worshipping at the altar of the credit card has not changed, but Santa may be getting his mojo back.
I can't say the same for Jesus. I haven't found religion, but when my children are older I will introduce them to Jesus. At some point my wife will tell them about Zarathustra, the prophet of her religion.
Right now, it's easier to introduce them to Santa.
Popcorn and Sweet Pea, now 18 months old, got to meet Santa up close a few weeks ago at Sherway Gardens. This Santa has a real white beard and spends some time with a group of kids whose parents have bought tickets for the Santa Experience.
My wife briefed them in advance using the book, Can You Make Santa Giggle? The book, equipped with sound, was like a reference manual for his jolly Ho, Ho, Ho, red suit and bushy white beard.
That evening at our appointed time, Santa entered to an imaginary snowball fight with kids of all ages. My son became worried for Santa's safety when he rolled on the floor after being hit by an invisible snowball. Popcorn reached out his arms and started crying. I scooped him up onto my knee and he watched the rest of the show with a cautious fascination.
When it was time for the much-anticipated photo with Santa, my wife and I carried the twins to the man in red. My daughter, who had enjoyed herself until then let out a wail as soon as she landed on his knee. We couldn't get through this without both of them crying.
A few weeks later, our local Business Improvement Association held its Etobicoke-LakeShore Santa Claus parade. They don't do the same thing for Jesus. The parade route passed a few dozen metres from our front door.
On parade day, we bundled up the kids, our neighbours did the same, and we lined up along Lake Shore Blvd. It was a festive atmosphere that brought some excitement to our neighbourhood. Everyone appeared to have a good time. I know I enjoyed watching Popcorn and Sweet Pea dancing to the music.
Before jolly St. Nick rolled by, another world famous character stirred up the crowd — Rob Ford. The Toronto mayor, walking beside his undecorated black Cadillac Escalade, tossed fistful's of candy at the kids. Ford, however, only delivered his version of Christmas cheer to one side the street, the right side. We were on the left.
The power of Santa and his sack of toys cannot be denied. Our kids have learned many words and some commands, they listen intently to their story time books, but are still too young to know who, or what, Santa is.
What they do know is: Santa is special.
Despite greedy shoppers, controversial elves in Holland, or Rob Ford on the parade route, Christmas has the power to enchant and captivate. A generous, jolly Santa is whatever you want him to be.
I still struggle with the meaning of Christmas in the early 21st century. For religious Christians it has always been about the birth of Christ. I'm not sure about the rest of us. What I do know is having children is making Christmas magical again.
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Abstract: We have measured the effect of the temperature on the polarization-resolved characteristics of a 1550-nm singletransverse mode vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL). Two double polarization switchings (PS) are observed. For low temperatures a PS from longer to shorter wavelengths (Type II PS) followed by the opposite PS (Type I) is observed. For higher temperatures Type I followed by Type II PS are measured. A simple expression relating the spin flip rateto the dichroism, differential gain, threshold current and PS current is derived. With this expression the dependence of the spin-flip rate on the temperature is obtained.
Description: Trabajo presentado al Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers XIX, celebrado en San Francisco, California (US) del 11 al 12 de febrero de 2015.


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❤ How to Find Friends or Family with Find My iPhone , iPad , Mac
Galaxy Expert January 23, 2020 Apple, Apple iPad, Apple iPhone, Apple Mac, Find My iPad, find my iphone, Find My Mac, iPad, iPhone, iphone repair, iPhone Repair Costs, iPhone Screen Replacement Costs, iPhone Sydney CBD Repairs, Mac
1 How to Use Find My on iPhone or iPad to Find People
2 How to Use Find My on a Mac to Find People
The FindMy app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac can be used to easily find people, whether they are friends, family, or anyone else sharing their location with you. You can quite literally find them on a map where ever they are located with this feature, a very handy feature for many people.
Finding people is super easy and it can be very useful, too. You'll be able to find anyone who is part of your family, plus anyone who has explicitly shared their location with you as well. That could be friends on a night out, a relative, your children, a partner or spouse, or even someone trying to locate someone in a strange town who got lost and you're trying to assist. Whatever the reason you're looking for someone, Find My makes it easy to locate them and you can use the feature on any iPhone, iPad, or Mac.
The steps required to locate someone are slightly different depending on whether you're using an iPhone, iPad, or Mac. But don't worry, we're going to run through them all. Let's start with finding people with FindMy on iPhone and iPad.
How to Use Find My on iPhone or iPad to Find People
Using Find My on iPhone or iPad is very similar to using it on the Mac.
Open the FindMy app to get started on the iPhone or iPad
Tap the "People" tab to see a list of all the people who share their location with you.
Tap a person to see their location on the map. Tap the "i" button to change map settings such as the view type and distance units.
A number of options appear when you tap a person.
Contact – Opens the person's contact card.
Directions – Opens the Maps app and displays the directions required to reach the person.
Notifications – Tap "Add" to set a new notification to inform you or the person when someone arrives or leaves a location.
Add to Favorites – Adds the person as a favorite.
Edit Location Name – Allows you to edit the name of the person's current location.
Stop Sharing My Location – Prevents the person from seeing your location.
Remove – Removes the person from the Find My app.
That's how easy it is to locate and find someone on a map with FindMy.
Remember, whoever you are trying to find (yourself included) must have Location Sharing enabled and they must have specifically chosen to share their location with you, and vice versa. This can be done through the Find My app as well. That allows this feature to be used privately and without exposing location data to the world.
You or anyone else can share current location easily from Messages on iPhone, perpetually share their location via messages, and you can also choose to share location from the FindMy app directly on iPhone or iPad too.
How to Use Find My on a Mac to Find People
To start, open the Find My app on your Mac. You'll find it in the "Applications" folder. Once the app is on-screen, it's all fairly simple.
Click the "People" tab at the top of the left-hand panel to see a list of all the people who are sharing their location with you.
Click a person to see their location on the map. You can also change how the map appears by clicking "Map," "Hybrid," or "Satellite." The "+" and "-" buttons zoom in and out, respectively.
Right-click a person to see additional options:
Show Contact Card – Click this to see the person's contact card in the Contacts app.
Directions – This will open the Maps app and provide directions for reaching the person.
Add to Favorites – You can add people to your Favorites list if required.
Remove – This will remove the person from Find My completely.
That's how FindMy works on Mac, but of course you can use FindMy on iPhone and iPad too, and all the features are the same and compatible with one another.
The FindMy app on modern macOS releases basically replaces the Find My Friends feature in Mac OS X from prior versions, but the core functionality is the same.
The Find My app is a really powerful tool that you may or might not make a lot of use of. But if you do have cause to use it you'll be really pleased that it exists. Many parents use this feature, and so do a lot of friends and partners too, for many different reasons. There are even some employers and organizations that use the FindMy feature on employee owned devices. And of course, it's all free and included with all iPhones, iPads, and Macs right out of the box, as long as everyone has an Apple ID and iCloud account enabled on their devices.
Being able to locate and track devices and people makes Apple's renamed Find My app name make much more sense. Previously, Find My iPhone was able to do that, plus find any other Apple device. And people, for that matter. The app rename makes it clear that the Find My app can find – almost – anything, as long as it's in the Apple ecosystem and either on your Apple ID or sharing their location with you.
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KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — As votes were counted Monday in Congo's long-delayed presidential election, the internet was cut across the vast Central African country in an apparent effort by the government to prevent social media speculation about the results after a day of balloting plagued by malfunctioning machines and other problems.
The election was held Sunday to choose a successor to President Joseph Kabila in what could be Congo's first peaceful, democratic transfer of power since independence from Belgium in 1960. Kabila is stepping down after 18 years.
The country's two major observer groups deplored the shutting down of the internet, and Bishop Abraham Djamba, head of Congo's Symocel observation mission, asked the government to restore it.
The official results are to be announced on Jan. 15, though preliminary results are expected within a week.
Election observers reported numerous difficulties on Sunday, though many Congolese showed a calm determination to vote. More than 40 million were registered to cast ballots.
Hundreds of polling places opened hours late because they did not have the needed lists of registered voters. Many voters could not find their names on the lists. And there were problems with more than 500 of the electronic voting machines.
Many polls stayed open into the night to allow those waiting in line to cast ballots. At least one Kinshasa polling station didn't manage to open until after the official closing time.
Also, the Kabila government decided at the last minute to bar an estimated 1 million people in two opposition-stronghold cities from voting on Sunday, citing the deadly Ebola outbreak in the eastern part of the country.
Among the 21 candidates, top opposition leaders Martin Fayulu and Felix Tshisekedi are challenging Kabila's preferred successor, former Interior Minister Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary, who is under European Union sanctions for a crackdown on people protesting delays in the election.
The election had been postponed since late 2016, prompting the opposition to charge that Kabila was trying to stay on past his mandate.
At stake is the future of a country that is desperately underdeveloped, with widespread corruption and armed militia groups operating in the east, but also rich in minerals, including those crucial to the world's smartphones and electric cars.
Parole Kamizelo, 31, of Kinshasa, said he was disappointed in the disorganization of the election.
"If Shadary is elected, it would be with a magic trick," he said.
The government postponed balloting in the cities of Beni and Butembo in the Ebola-stricken east until March, long after Congo's new leader is inaugurated in January, effectively canceling the votes from those two cities.