The more I travel around the earth, the more I see the sickening conditions in the world today, and the more I glean from history, the more convinced I become that the real root cause of all of humanity's troubles and evils may be summed up in six words: "They didn't believe what He said." And they still don't believe what He says today!
Suppose you had suddenly come into consciousness – just now having been suddenly created the first human being. Your Maker is sitting beside you, revealing to you vital knowledge so direly necessary for you.
He tells you that He has made you and the wife He has created beside you so that you can reproduce your kind. In due time you will populate the earth with millions of your offspring.
He reveals to you that He has provided for you a WAY OF LIFE that will CAUSE and produce PEACE between individuals, groups, and nations that shall arise. This way of life is the result of following an inexorable spiritual law as automatic and relentless in continual action as the law of gravity, which He demonstrates to you. It is the basic law of His government by which He rules the vast universe He has created. It is the law of love. It will produce peace, happiness, joy, abundance, universal prosperity, and if you and your children choose it as your way of life, He will give you also the gift of eternal life, which you do not yet possess.
This way of life is symbolized by a tree, called the "tree of life," in the midst of the beautiful garden where He has placed you. But also, in case you decide to reason out your own way of life – taking to yourself the decision and knowledge of what is good and what is evil – then there is a second very special symbolic tree which also produces fruit. That tree is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. But your Maker FORBIDS you to take of this tree, which means disobedience to His law, and if you choose to disobey and take of that tree, you shall die, since the penalty of SIN (the transgression of His LAW) is DEATH.
Would you BELIEVE what your Maker said? Would you?
God their Creator had given them His way of life. If they rejected it, turning to their own way, it would bring sorrow, curses, unhappiness, suffering – and death!
But Satan, in the symbolic form of a serpent, came along and said God lied. They would not surely die. They were immortal souls. He reminded them of the superior human minds they had. They could work out their own way of life – and after all, could they believe God? They only had His word for it.
They made the first scientific experiment. Even today, the scientific method rejects revelation as a source of knowledge and understanding, and utilizes observation, experimentation, and human reason.
Adam and Eve rejected divine revelation as the foundational basis of knowledge, as does modern science today. They didn't believe what their Creator said! And it was "when the woman saw [observation] that the tree [of the forbidden fruit] was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise [human reason], she took of the fruit thereof [she did the experiment], and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat" (Gen. 3:6).
Some 4,000 years later, God sent Jesus Christ, His Son, into the world with a message from heaven. This message was essentially the same as He had instructed the first two humans. It had to do with God's government and rule over them, of His way of life that would cause every good, and with the gift of eternal life.
But again, humans (with few exceptions – 120 in all) did not believe what He said! They called Him a liar!
Let me quote: "As he [Jesus] spake these words, many believed on him. Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word [His MESSAGE], then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" (John 8:30-32).
They answered Him sarcastically and hostilely. They were Abraham's descendants and were already free, they said.
They believed on the messenger – but they rejected His message – they didn't believe what He said!
Before the end of the first century that message was suppressed and another false "gospel" substituted (Gal. 1:6-7–A.D. 58). Christ's message was not proclaimed to the world again until now – in the latter half of the twentieth century!
But God saw to it that His word – His message to mankind – was inspired and put into His written Word. But even today, the religions that have appropriated Christ's name preach about the PERSON of Christ – but they do not proclaim His MESSAGE – His true gospel.
And in many basic doctrines they teach the very opposite of what Jesus and the first apostles taught. They condemn the customs Jesus observed, and observe customs Jesus and the Bible condemn.
Humans have written books by the millions. People read and take them literally. They take them to mean what they say – and say what they mean. But the Bible? They can't seem to believe it can mean what it plainly says.
For example, the Bible says, "The wages of sin is DEATH" (Rom. 6:23). But professing Christians will say, "But death doesn't mean death – it means everlasting life in hellfire!" God in His Word SAYS "death" – but they don't believe what God says.
This same verse says, also, "But the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Do they believe eternal life is a gift of God? No, they believe we are "immortal souls" who already have eternal life. But God says in His Word, "The soul that sinneth, it shall die" (Ezek. 18:4). God says that – but professing Christians don't believe what He says! He says the same words again in Ezekiel 18:20.
God said the same thing to Adam and Eve: "… in the day that thou eatest thereof [of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil] thou shalt surely die" (Gen. 2:17). And in verse seven God says He "formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man [made of the dust of the ground] became a living soul." God told this "soul" he would "surely die" if he disobeyed by taking the forbidden fruit.
It was Satan who said, "Ye shall NOT surely die." Today those who profess Christ believe what Satan said. But they do not believe what God said!
And what about modern science and higher education? Like our first parents they reject revelation (what God says) as the basic source of knowledge. Do they believe there was a flood in Noah's day? God says there was, but they do not believe what He says! What about higher education? God says the waters of the Red Sea parted and the Israelites walked across on the dry floor of the sea. In His Word, God says the walls of water returned, covering and drowning Pharaoh and his army. But can you find that in the ancient history texts? They don't believe what God said!
God shows us the way to world peace – peace between individuals, between groups, between nations. But men do not believe what God says, and so we have no peace.
God shows us the way to peace, happiness, prosperity in abundance and eternal life as His gift. But men, except for the very few, don't believe what God says! Instead, humanity suffers on!


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will.i.am Accuses Flight Attendant Of Racism
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Noise-canceling headphones can expose racists? Rapper/producer will.i.am is accusing a flight attendant of racism on a recent flight from Brisbane to Sydney.
I'm currently on a flight from Brisbane to Sydney.
I'm sorry to say me and my group have experienced they worse service due to a overly aggressive flight attendant…
I don't want to believe she racist.
But she has clearly aimed all her frustrations only at the people of colour
— will.i.am (@iamwill) November 16, 2019
The Black Eyed Peas rapper took to Twitter to detail what happened. Apparently, it all started when passengers were told to put away their electronics, but will didn't hear the message thanks to using noise-canceling headphones while he was making beats on his laptop.
Despite claiming to immediately comply when he was tapped on the shoulder, will.i.am felt he and coincidentally other passengers of color were treated rudely.
"I'm currently on a flight from Brisbane to Sydney. I'm sorry to say me and my group have experienced they [sic] worse service due to a overly aggressive flight attendant…," he tweeted on Friday, Nov. 15. "I don't want to believe she racist. But she has clearly aimed all her frustrations only at the people of colour."
Even worse, will.i.am was greeted by five police officers at the airport. He went on to reveal the flight attendant's name while calling out the airline, Qantas.
This is how your greeted when you land from Brisbane to Sydney flying @qantas with a #RacistFlightattendant named Lorraine Marshall…She sent the police after me bacause I couldn't hear the P.A while making beats on the plane wearing noise canceling headphones… pic.twitter.com/9xT7WqTUoO
Sharing the flight attendant's name caused debate about whether will.i.a, took things too far. But he was adamant that he was using Twitter to file his complaint and that he wasn't the only one to experience maltreatment. He also noted that the police let him go after numerous fellow passengers co-signed the flight attendant's ill behavior.
The airline issued its own statement, saying it would follow up but took no accountability.
"There was a misunderstanding on board, which seems to have been exacerbated by will.i.am wearing noise cancelling headphones and not being able to hear instructions from crew," a spokesman said per News.Com.Au. "We completely reject the suggestion this had anything to do with race. We'll be following up with will.i.am and wish him well for the rest of the tour."
If it looks like racism, sounds like racism and smells like racism, it's probably racism.
Peep will.i.am's tweets below.
.@Qantas Your #RacistFlightattendant was beyond rude & took it to the next level by calling the police on me. thank god the other passengers testified that SHE was out of Control the police finally let me go. imagine if the police were as aggressive as Lorraine Marshall
I'm sorry? Is callin the police on a passenger for not hearing he P.A due to wearing noise canceling headphones appropriate? If didn't put away my laptop "in a rapid 2min time" I'd understand. I did comply quickly & politely, only to be greeted by police. I think I was targeted https://t.co/8WVIuMKXJa
thank you https://t.co/GK2D3aNS1Q
No one said she was a white supremest… I said she singled every person of colourbin the flight and gave them a hard time…and went to the extreme of calling the police on me when I did nothing wrong…other passengers on the flight agreed that she was out of hand… https://t.co/fyh6DUb9F8
I was intimidated by 5 police officers when I landed…for what? I put away my laptop when she asked…why would she feel threatened by me to call the police? What did I do wrong? I wasn't out of hand.. I was polite & did what she asked… now you're asking me to take abuse? https://t.co/1390ThymY3
Please do not send Hate…This type of disrespect and name calling is uncalled for…I don't support abuse & attacks like this…I hope that everyone can be more compassionate & understanding towards one another…because it was the lack of compassion that caused this #noH8 pic.twitter.com/zNwoIyyaBP
I don't regret my actions of taking to public to speak for the other for those who don't have the voice who felt the same disrespect… I am saddened that People chose to spread hate and attack… there were other people on the flight were disrespected https://t.co/IUy0hvETso https://t.co/V41bexQHjU
Have a goodnight…Twitter is the people's tool…rich and poor…a tool to use when things go wrong…it allows people can FEEL directly from the people that have FEELINGS…today I FELT discrimination…and I spoke for all the other people who are voiceless https://t.co/mZnXmVp0CT
If I did something wrong….or if I was the slightest bit rude to a FAN or a journalist during work, I would be publicly named…this is what Twitter is for…we are supposed to call out wrong doings so we can have a safer more compassionate world https://t.co/au4ibWeqWY
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Hans von Marées (ur. 24 grudnia 1837 w Elberfeld, zm. 5 czerwca 1887 w Rzymie) – niemiecki malarz.

W 1853 podjął studia w Berlinie, 1855-1863 pracował głównie w Monachium, znalazł się wówczas pod wpływem szkoły historycznej, w 1864 zamieszkał we Włoszech. W 1873 wykonał swoje najważniejsze dzieło - freski w bibliotece muzeum zoologicznego w Neapolu. Zmarł w zapomnieniu. W 1891 jego prace zostały zebrane na wystawie w Monachium, i dopiero wówczas jego twórczość została doceniona.

Hans von Marées był przyjacielem malarza Adolfa von Hildebranda.

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Niemieccy malarze
Urodzeni w 1837
Zmarli w 1887

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Q: switch easily between different main() I'm using VS2010
I have a project with several headers and one file with the main() function.
For testing purposes I'd like to be able to easily another main() function that would instanciate different things than my original main.
Is there an easy way to define 2 "main" function, and easily switch between them?
The best would be to compile 2 binaries, one that starts at main1() and the other at main2(), or it can be a solution that requires to recompile some files, it doesn't matter

A: You are almost always better off using a separate compiled binary with a separate main.
First, "for testing purposes" might include code that should never be in the real binary -- such as test library code.  That requires a second binary.
Second, if there is nothing that should be omitted, you still have the issue that anyone can supply an argument or copy and rename the binary to match argv[0] that will give this functionality.
I know it might be difficult to architect your project files to create separate real and test programs, but in most cases, you will have a much better result.

A: "There can be only one"  What you need to do is create a set of sub functions that main invokes biased upon conditions or though conditional compilation statements.

A: In linker options you have entry point name. This way you can have main1() and main2():
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/f9t8842e(v=vs.80).aspx

A: #ifdef TESTING
int main() {
    /* whatever */
}
#else
int main() {
    /* whatever else */
}
#endif

A: An application can only have one main. If you want to run two things, you need to do so in main, via:

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*The name of the executable run (hint: the first argv is the name of the executable)

*Further command line parameters (program -thingone)

*Lazily commenting out calls to functions which do something.

A: Besides specifying different entry points in the linker or having a real main() that calls whichever lower level function you want to pretend is a top level function, you could add a project for each main() you want.
This can be somewhat annoying in VS because separate projects aren't set up by default to share source code.. Some other IDEs make it easier have different executables (or other build products) built from different subsets of a shared set of source code, but I've never found that to be easy using VS's defaults.

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Q: How does import_array in numpy C API work? I am trying to convert a c-style array in c++ to a numpy array and ran into problems when trying to use the "PyArray_SimpleNewFromData" function. It turns out I need to call
import_array()

Though I do not understand how to call this function. Whenever I try calling it I get compiler error which I do not manage to understand. For instance writing the following simple script:
#include <Python.h>
#include <numpy/arrayobject.h>

int main(){
    Py_Initialize();
    import_array();
    Py_Finalize();
    return 0;
}

produces the compiler error

error: return-statement with no value, in function returning 'int' [-fpermissive]
  import_array();

I looked at several examples, such as :
Numpy C-Api example gives a SegFault
PyArray_SimpleNewFromData example
https://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/92266/sending-a-c-array-to-python-numpy-and-back
Numpy/CAPI error with import_array() when compiling multiple modules
But whatever I try (even when seemingly following those examples) I seem to run into the compiler error above. What am I missing or doing wrong? An explanation on how the import_array() function should be called would be very welcome. Thanks for the help!
Update:
I am using python 2.7.11, and I think it might be related to what is discussed here :
https://github.com/clemenscorny/brisk/issues/3
but I still have no idea how to fix it.

A: Reading the source code of import_array() from numpy, it is a macro that mainly calls the _import_array() regular function, and then does some weird exception handling. If you call _import_array() instead of import_array(), the compilation error disappears. And, at least in my case, the behavior is then correct (i.e. no segfault when calling Numpy C API functions)


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Q: Detecting patterns in residual plot I wish to automatically (not by visual inspection) detect where large deviations occur in a residual plot from a regression. For example, suppose I have the residual plot below:

I want to automatically detect the observations from about 30:35 deviate from a normal residual pattern.  Some clues are that the magnitude is quite large and the residuals do not appear independent in this region.  How can I go about this?

A: A dependent mixture model (hidden Markov model) may be of use, depending on the type of deviations expected.
Assume that your observations come from two distributions (or states), both of which are normally distributed, but have different mean and variance.
A number of parameters can be estimated: The initial state probabilities (2 parameters), the state transition probabilities between neighbouring data points (4 parameters) and finally the mean and variance of the two distributions (4 parameters).
In R, this model can be estimated using the depmixS4 package:
library(depmixS4)

set.seed(3)
y = rnorm(100)
y[30:35] <- rnorm(6,mean=4,sd=2)
plot(1:100,y,"l")

m <- depmix(y~1,nstates=2,ntimes=100)
fm <- fit(m)

means <- getpars(fm)[c(7,9)]
lines(1:100,means[fm@posterior$state],lwd=2,col=2)

See http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/depmixS4/vignettes/depmixS4.pdf for references

A: Residual plots like this can be used to harvest unspecified deterministic predictor series. If the data is known to be non-spatial or non-chronological then the result would be that there are a few pulses(additive outliers). If however the data has spatial or chronological characteristics then it is possible not only to detect pulses BUT seasonal pulses or Level/step shifts or Local Time Trends that are statistically evident in the residuals via Intervention Detection procedures. Detection and subsequent incorporation of these effects into the final model are very important in providing a robust prediction. Try searching the web for "automatic intervention detection" or simply "intervention detection". Be aware that if there is ARIMA structure that needs to be accounted for things get a little tricky as one needs to simultaneously identify the ARIMA structure and the required Intervention Detected structure. In a number of cases one needs to identify the ARIMA component first and then the needed intervention variables. Alternatively one might need to identify the intervention variables first and then the ARIMA structure. Analytics will tell you which approach is best for any one particular example.
When you have user-suggested causal variables the problem becomes even trickier as you have even more combinations to consider (6) to determine how to best integrate causal structure , arima structure and Intervention Detected structure.


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Q: About question tags
He did nothing*.

Which is the correct question tag for the sentence above?

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*didn't he?

*did he?
What is the effect of using nothing for negation?

A: Wikipedia says:

English tag questions may contain a negation, but need not. When there is no special emphasis, the rule of thumb often applies that a positive sentence has a negative tag and vice versa:

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*She is French, isn't she?

*She's not French, is she?

  These are sometimes called "balanced tag questions". However, it has been estimated that in normal conversation, as many as 40%-50% of tags break this rule. "Unbalanced tag questions" (positive to positive or negative to negative) may be used for ironic or confrontational effects:

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*Do listen, will you?

*Oh, I'm lazy, am I?

*Jack: I refuse to spend Sunday at your mother's house! Jill: Oh you do, do you? We'll see about that!

*Jack: I just won't go back! Jill: Oh you won't, won't you?

  Patterns of negation can show regional variations. In North East Scotland, for example, positive to positive is used when no special effect is desired:

*

*This pizza's fine, is it? (standard English: This pizza's delicious, isn't it?)

A:
He did nothing
Which is the correct question tag for
  the sentence above:
didn't he?
did he?

Hum, I think either one is possible. My interpretation of this is that if you said

He did nothing, did he?

it would mean that you think that I've said that he did nothing and you want me to confirm that. If you said

He did nothing, didn't he.

it would mean that you assert that he did nothing and you expect me to confirm that.

What is the effect of using nothing for negation?

My interpretation is that if you said

He didn't do anything.

it sounds more neutral (less emphatic) than if you said

He did nothing.

A: To expand on the current answers,
"He didn't do anything, did he?" and
"He did nothing, didn't he?"
Mean exactly the same thing.  The tag question asks for confirmation of the speakers belief that that he didn't do anything.
However,the phrase
"He did nothing, did he?"
Is a different type of tag question.  It does not mean that the speakers opinion is that he did nothing.  The speaker is in fact genuinely questioning the assertion that he did nothing.
for example:
"he rode a bike, did he?"
The speaker really wants to know if he rode a bike, and isn't sure of that fact.
"he rode a bike, didn't he?"
The speaker is rather confident that he did ride a bike, but is asking for confirmation.


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Q: Getting Effort or Hours to Roll up a item-type hierarchy I have the following hierarchy setup:
Epic
Feature
Backlog Item
Task

The problem that I have is that the hours I put in at the task levels, do not roll up to the Backlog Item, Feature, and Epic levels. I need a way for capturing estimated and actual hours or efforts (whatever is available), and have them automatically roll up to the highest level (Epic in this case).
Any suggestions?

A: Rollback is limited out of the box, as you can see here.
If you need something more complex, you can look at the (TFS) Aggregator project on GitHub https://github.com/tfsaggregator/ (disclosure: I am the main contributor).


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Ion exchange extraction during continuous recrystallization of CaSO4 in the phosphoric acid production process: Lanthanide extraction efficiency and CaSO4 particle shape
C. Koopman*, Geert-Jan Witkamp
In the HemiDiHydrate (HDH) phosphoric acid production processes, calcium sulfate hemihydrate (HH) is formed from the reaction of phosphate ore with sulfuric acid. In a second step, the HH crystals are recrystallized to calcium sulfate dihydrate (DH, gypsum). With the phosphate ore, impurities enter the production processes. Some of these impurities, such as the lanthanides, mainly end up in the DH crystals. Some impurities, such as aluminum fluoride and lanthanides, not only cause contamination of the DH crystals, but also retard the crystallization and influence the HH and DH particle shapes. By adding ion exchange resin during the continuously operated recrystallization, lanthanides are removed resulting in cleaner DH and phosphoric acid. The simultaneous ion exchange extraction accelerates the recrystallization and can lead to differences in DH particle shape.
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0304-386X(01)00219-5
Ion exchange extraction
Lanthanide
10.1016/S0304-386X(01)00219-5
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Lanthanoid Series Elements Chemical Compounds 100%
Phosphoric acid Engineering & Materials Science 88%
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phosphoric acid Chemical Compounds 82%
Crystallization Engineering & Materials Science 68%
Crystals Engineering & Materials Science 62%
Koopman, C., & Witkamp, G-J. (2002). Ion exchange extraction during continuous recrystallization of CaSO4 in the phosphoric acid production process: Lanthanide extraction efficiency and CaSO4 particle shape. Hydrometallurgy, 63(2), 137-147. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0304-386X(01)00219-5
Koopman, C. ; Witkamp, Geert-Jan. / Ion exchange extraction during continuous recrystallization of CaSO4 in the phosphoric acid production process : Lanthanide extraction efficiency and CaSO4 particle shape. In: Hydrometallurgy. 2002 ; Vol. 63, No. 2. pp. 137-147.
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Posted on November 15, 2017 October 13, 2019 by Dylan Lepore
OURS Celebration of Research 2017
Students and faculty recognize research achievements at the inaugural Celebration of Student and Faculty Collaborative Research program, Oct. 20, at the Joseph P. Scartelli Atrium.
Since 2016, Radford University has seen publications in research, scholarship and creative activities by 32 faculty mentors and 96 undergraduate students, said Joe Wirgau, director of the Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarship (OURS) and associate professor of chemistry.
"The Office of Undergraduate Research & Scholarship (OURS) advances a sustainable culture of undergraduate research, scholarship and creative activities at Radford University," as stated on Radford's OURS website.
"This is a celebration of student-faculty teams that not only have successfully created new knowledge, but they've shared that new knowledge through successful publications, performances or showings of their work," Wirgau said at the program. "I am well aware of both the challenging and rewarding nature of that work. I want to thank every single faculty, both here and in the program, who were able to create these transformative, high impact experiences for our students. I also want to thank the student researchers…They push me to be more successful, and they certainly have me think about things from a different viewpoint. Thank you for your hard work, your curiosity and working to make the world a better place."
Wirgau gave thanks to many people for supporting OURS endeavors, but more specifically Mary Hagan in the Honors Academy and Jeanne Mekolichick, assistant provost for academic programs, for her tireless support of transformative high impact student experiences.
Wirgau mentioned he hoped this research celebration would be "a new and valuable tradition" for the university moving forward. Compared to Hemphill's first inaugural State of the University Address and last weeks second annual Radford Gives Back (RGB) Community Service Project.
Jessica Mundy, OUR executive student assistant, said she is grateful for the many research opportunities that she has embraced at Radford, including presenting at several conferences, being published and earning grants to further her studies.
"It is the continued support of faculty that has allowed me to do the research that I enjoy," said Conner Philson, a student researcher. "Thank you for all the opportunities undergraduate research, and high impact practices have given me and all the other students. Not just the students here today, but the ones who are working on publications now, the ones who will be coming in as freshmen next year and for many years to come…We will continue to produce great publications and work and share the Radford University name in all the opportunities that are provided."
Philson also mentioned of the many research and learning opportunities in which he has engaged in at Radford, including the Radford Amazonian Research Expedition (RARE) to Peru. Under the mentorship of Jason Davis, an Associate Professor of Biology, who is also researching automated animal data collection centers.
"The Radford Amazonian Research Expedition (RARE) provides undergraduate students with a unique opportunity to conduct original biological research in a primary Amazonian rainforest ecosystem," as said on Radford's website.
"Because of undergraduate research, I am a completely different person," Mundy said. "My confidence has grown drastically, as well as my efficacy – my belief that I can do good things here. I've made meaningful friendships, and I'm doing valuable things with my time…This institution is my home now – one of my favorite places in the world."
"You all [faculty] are so motivated, ambitious and everything I aspire to be when I grow up," Mundy continued. "It is faculty and students like you who have made Radford so successful."
For more information on research, travel funding, or more about OURS itself head to the office of Undergraduate Research & Scholarships in White 125 or Radford OURS website.
A majority of information for this article was from (OURS reception showcases student-faculty research projects) a piece written by Mary Hardbarg, a public relations writer for Radford.
*This article originally published on The Tartan*
My original piece before going to the Tartan (I didn't make this one pretty):
Jessica Mundy, OURS executive student assistant, said she is grateful for the many research opportunities that she has embraced at Radford, including presenting at several conferences, being published and earning grants to further her studies.
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November 19, 2014By zeekeeCompany News
One Stop Environmental CEO Wins Gold in Stevie Awards for Women in Businesszeekee2021-08-02T19:53:30+00:00
Birmingham, AL – One Stop Environmental, LLC (OSE), a woman owned company offering a full suite of environmental services throughout the United States, is proud to announce Shannon Riley, CEO, was presented with a Gold Stevie Award in the Female Executive of the Year- Business Services- All Other Industries category; and OSE's Earth Day Heroes program was presented a Silver Stevie Award in the Community Involvement Program of the Year category at the 11th annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business.
The Stevie Awards for Women in Business are produced by the creators of the prestigious American Business Awards and International Business Awards. The Stevies are widely considered to be the world's premier business awards. The 2014 awards received entries from 22 nations and territories.
"In the 11 years of the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, we have never had as many impressive women entrepreneurs, organizations, and executives nominated as we did in 2014. Their stories of success and innovation will be an inspiration to women around the globe who dream of starting and growing a business and making a difference," said Michael Gallagher, founder and president of the Stevie Awards. "We congratulate all of this year's Grand, Gold, Silver and Bronze Stevie Award winners for their achievements."
This year's Gold, Silver and Bronze Stevie Award winners were announced at an awards dinner at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City on Friday, November 14. More than 300 women and their guests from around the world attended the presentations, which were broadcast live by Biz Talk Radio and taped for a later television broadcast.
Details about the Stevie Awards for Women in Business and the list of Stevie Award winners are available at Stevie Awards.
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Shannon Riley- Gold Stevie Award Recipient for Female Executive of theYear
As the founder and CEO of One Stop Environmental (OSE), Shannon Riley is responsible for the leadership, strategy and technical foundation of this full service environmental company specializing in federal and private environmental cleanup services. Riley is the only female CEO in the Southeast whose company self performs industrial environmental cleanup and abatement.
This year Riley has focused on and succeeded at turning around the company financially after facing many hurdles over the last few years. In 2011 the small business took a 1.5 million dollar loss on a job. That same year the federal government defunded a 1.6 million dollar contract held long term by OSE and reduced it down to $100,000. Additionally, Alabama immigration laws eliminated their Hispanic work force. The loss of abatement laborers meant finding and training new crews and a loss of profit in OSE's abetment division.
Determined to keep the doors open and her employees in their jobs, Riley and her team worked hard increasing OSE's customer base by nearly 20% since July 2013. Riley and her team also increased revenue by offering new services to existing customers.
Riley was able to make positive changes without having to reduce workforce. Even with lean financials, Riley brought in a Health and Safety Supervisor and saw a safety rating improvement over the last year. OSE's current EMR is a .77, lower than 1 which is the industry standard.
OSE, under Riley's leadership, has now been profitable for the last 18 months. The bottom line is 3.5% higher than it has ever been. The company is back to traditional bank lending greatly reducing monthly interest rates. OSE celebrated its 15th anniversary this year, and looks forward to continued growth.
Riley's passion for growing her business is matched by her passion for serving and improving her community. One Stop announced its 3rd annual Earth Day Heroes program this year. OSE created the community program to educate elementary students in Alabama on the importance of keeping the planet clean and ways they can help protect the environment. The contest portion of the program rewards students for making Earth Day Pledges in preparation for National Earth Day. The 176 pledges collected during this year's program included creative ideas such as recycling in the classroom, school and neighborhood cleanup days, creative ways to reuse trash like making flower pots from milk cartons and dollhouses from cardboard, planting flowers and trees, and conserving water and energy.
Riley serves on several civic and professional boards including the College of Arts Leadership at the University of Alabama, Christ Health Center, Innovation Depot, Rev Birmingham and the Woodlawn Business Association. She continues to be a champion for the revitalization of Woodlawn, AL where her business is headquartered. She and her husband renovated one of the warehouse spaces in Woodlawn to include a gym and basketball court allowing inner city basketball teams to practice rent free. Riley also participates in the Holy Family Cristo Rey Catholic School's corporate intern program, providing students with real-world work experience and paying more than half of the students' cost of education.
Riley is wife to her high school sweetheart and fellow business owner Richard and mother to Griffin, James, Harris and Reagan.
Earth Day Heroes- Silver Award Recipient for Community Involvement Plan of the Year
This year One Stop Environmental, LLC (OSE) celebrated the growth and success of its third annual Earth Day Heroes program for local schools across the state of Alabama. OSE created the community program to educate elementary students in Alabama on the importance of keeping the planet clean and ways they can help protect the environment. The contest portion of the program rewards students for making Earth Day Pledges in preparation for National Earth Day.
"One Stop Environmental seeks to provide fun and useful information to students that will both educate and motivate them to start being conscious of the ways their decisions can affect the planet," said Shannon Riley, CEO of One Stop Environmental. "The company will reward classrooms for making Earth Day pledges that they will stick to throughout the school year."
A One Stop representative visited each participating classroom and took the time to speak with students about Earth Day and ways they can protect and celebrate the planet. Each class was asked to make an Earth Day Pledge and draw a picture of that pledge.
The 176 pledges collected during this year's program included creative ideas such as recycling in the classroom, school and neighborhood cleanup days, creative ways to reuse trash like making flower pots from milk cartons and dollhouses from cardboard, planting flowers and trees, and conserving water and energy.
Mr. Williams science class at Putnam Middle School pledged to be "walking school buses" where students have already begun walking a mile to school, calculating how much fuel they save each week and how many calories they burn walking. Many classes have put their pledges in action collecting recyclable items in their classes and reusing their waste.
This year Earth Day Heroes expanded into more schools in the Huntsville and Birmingham, Alabama areas. Participating schools in Birmingham included; Cornerstone Schools of Alabama, Putnam Middle School, J Oliver Elementary School, and Avondale Elementary School.
Huntsville participating schools included; Weatherly Heights Elementary School, Mountain Gap Elementary School, Challenger Elementary School, Horizon Elementary School, and the Huntsville Montessori School.
The One Stop Environmental program included a Facebook contest to determine Earth Day Heroes classroom winners from Huntsville and classroom winners from Birmingham, 75 finalists were chosen. The community was then invited to vote in the contest through One Stop Environmental's Facebook page.
The classes that received the most votes won a field trip to a local nature preserve, a pizza party, and a Samsung Galaxy Tablet pre-loaded with environmental science games and apps sponsored by One Stop Environmental. Each participating school will received a donation to their library to add to their environmental science teaching resources.
"Watching the students start to think creatively about ways to help the planet and seeing them excited about making small changes in their routine that make a huge difference and in the community is extremely rewarding. We are already looking forward to growing the program in 2015," said Riley.
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Q: How to select records from table for a given date using sql server 2008 I have a table in sql server
News(News_ID,Title,Article,Attatchment,Date)
I want to select all records of News table for any date provided by the user from asp.net c# using calender extender. The Date column in News table is of datetime.I have used following query:
select distinct  News.* from News where News.Date =@Date and
                    News.Publish_Status=1 order by News.News_ID desc
but is not working when i am supplying any date no result is found.Please help me someone.

A: Try below query :
var fromDate = selectedDate.Date; // date with 0 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds
var toDate = selectedDate.Date.AddDays(1).AddSeconds(-1); // date with 23 hours, 59 minutes, 59 seconds

var query = "select distinct News.* from News where News.Date >= @fromDate  and News.Date <= @toDate and News.Publish_Status=1 order by News.News_ID desc

A: Try below Query:
select distinct News.*
from News
where CONVERT(VARCHAR(MAX),News.Date,101) = CONVERT(VARCHAR(MAX),@Date,101)
      and News.Publish_Status=1
order by News.News_ID desc

It will work for any date formate.


I have been busy gardening this week, and wouldn't have dared to put my hands in any food because I have had the hands of a mechanic… Yup, that bad! But after soaking in the pool for a good hour, and a manicure, I can now do some baking! Btw, can't wait to show off some garden pics! I'll posted later this week, still have a couple beds to finish.
So onto the good stuff…food! I have really been trying to reduce the amount of sugar I have been eating. But, I have to say that I have the willpower of a jellyfish (I don't actually know if a jellyfish possesses enough brainpower to comprehend willpower….which is part of why I though it made a good comparison) Anyways, part of my twisted logic when it comes to eating sugar is that if you bake smaller cookies, you can eat more of them, and if you add good things like hemp hearts or wheat bran, the good balances out the bad… Right? Well, a good justification for being able to eat chocolate is to mix it with something not so bad, like rice crispies, so you can eat more. Makes total sense to me.
I started by melting some chocolate….
Then added a few handfuls of rice crispies, and some hemp hearts (you know, to make it healthy).
Gave it a good mix.
Spread it out on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper, and put it in the fridge for an hour or so.
I'll share some garden pics soon! Enjoy the hot weather!


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Red States, Including the 'Newly-Reds,' Excel at Job Growth
By Tom Blumer 2011-07-29T03:00:25
Now that state employment information for the first half of 2011 is available, one can't help but notice which states are up, as well as a particularly telling example of one which is down.
Though admittedly the comparison isn't apples to apples, it's worth noting that of the 757,000 seasonally adjusted jobs added in the overall economy this year from January through June, the ten states with the highest percentage employment growth were responsible for well over half, or 390,000 of them, even though they only have about 20% of the nation's population:
What's more, as the economy by all accounts decelerated in May and June, the ten states above stayed relatively strong. While the country as a whole gained only 43,000 seasonally adjusted jobs in those two months, they added over 90,000. Democrats who accuse Republicans of wanting the economy to tank, please note: If it weren't for these ten states, we might already be in the midst of another recession instead of possibly heading towards one, as Goldman Sachs and others have recently asserted.
Six of the ten (Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming) have been conservative strongholds for decades. Montana, though its governor and two senators are currently Democrats, has been a red state in all but one presidential election since 1972. The final three highlighted above -- Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin -- were previously governed by Democrats who were replaced with GOP governors this year. All three are in the early stages of what may be remarkable turnarounds. I call them "the newly-reds."
Led by Governor John Kasich, Ohio's January-June seasonally adjusted jobs pickup is the Buckeye State's best performance since 1994. Not coincidentally, that's about when then-Governor George Voinovich stopped being even sort of conservative. Regardless of the party in charge, Ohio was governed like a blue state until Kasich came along. Even more impressive, in terms of what has actually occurred (i.e., the not seasonally adjusted figures), the state has added just over 200,000 private-sector jobs in the past five months, the best February-June total since 1999, when the national economy, largely due to Kasich's previous work on the federal budget as a congressman, was far stronger.
In March, Kasich and the General Assembly tentatively won a bitter battle with the state's public-sector unions and passed "SB5." As I noted several weeks ago, SB5 prohibits public employee strikes, limits the subjects of collective bargaining, requires public employees to pay 15% of their health insurance costs, and prohibits forced union "contributions" by nonunion public workers. In June, the governor signed a two-year budget which closed a projected $8 billion deficit dumped on the state by predecessor Ted Strickland without raising taxes and while keeping all-funds spending virtually flat. The Buckeye State reaped an almost immediate reward: Standard & Poor's, which had downgraded the state's debt rating just as Strickland departed in January, revised it to "stable" shortly after the budget's passage.
The SB5 victory just noted is tentative because opponents have succeeded in getting a repeal initiative on the November ballot. It may not be an exaggeration to say that the state's nascent recovery hangs in the balance.
Michigan's performance is a bit less impressive, principally because it still has so far to go. Wolverine State employment contracted by over 600,000 on Democratic Governor Jennifer Granholm's watch, so one shouldn't be too impressed with the improvements achieved just yet. Nevertheless, Republican Rick Snyder, who succeeded Granholm, seems to have put a foundation in place for continued employment progress. In stark contrast to recent contentious budget battles, the state created an atmosphere of relative certainty by passing a budget four months ahead of time. Most notably, it features "a big reduction in business taxes," which consumers end up paying anyway, and "an almost equal increase in income taxes."
Then there's Wisconsin. Has any state's governor ever been vilified as severely and viciously as Scott Walker during his battle with the state's public-sector unions earlier this year? Walker won't get a thank-you card from them any time soon, but he should, because the alternative was massive government layoffs, most of which, as the Weekly Standard's John McCormack has noted, have been avoided:
Walker's budget repair bill, known as Act 10, is working just as he promised. To make up for a $2.8 billion deficit without raising taxes, state aid to school districts (the largest budget line) was reduced by $830 million. Act 10, Walker said, would give districts "the tools" needed to make up for the lost money as fairly as possible.
... Now that the law is in effect, where are the horror stories of massive layoffs and schools shutting down? They don't exist — except in a couple of districts where collective bargaining agreements, inked before the budget repair bill was introduced, remain in effect.
McCormack goes on to explain that schools in Milwaukee and Kenosha have each laid off hundreds of teachers because those districts' unions "cleverly" concluded contracts which avoided the employee health care and pension contributions contained in Walker's budget repair bill. Teachers who have lost their jobs might be questioning union leaders' "wisdom." Meanwhile, the state's employment pickup this year is more than triple that seen under Democrat Jim Doyle during all of 2010.
As to poorly performing states, the booby prize goes to Connecticut, which after eking out small early gains has lost 9,000 seasonally adjusted jobs in the past two months. Only a fool would believe that this result has nothing to do with Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy's poor public policy choices since he took office this year.
Malloy pushed billions of dollars of tax increases through the Nutmeg State's legislature with promises that he would rein in spending in negotiations with the state's unions. Fat chance of that. As of when this column was written, the unions, in the midst of a 20-year contract expiring in 2017 (you read that right), still hadn't budged, even though because of their intransigence Malloy had to lay off over 6,500 state employees earlier this month.
Imagine that. A Democratic Party politician promises he'll rein in spending after he gets his "needed" tax increases, and then fails in his followthrough. We've heard that tune far too many times, including now from President Obama and Democrats in Washington. Far too often in the past, spendaholic Dems have been accompanied off the cliff by go-along, get-along Republicans. Governors Kasich, Snyder, and especially Walker have shown that the "newly-reds" have a better way.
https://pjmedia.com/blog/data-show-majority-of-job-gains-in-red-states/
The Morning Briefing: Spare Us the Wrath of the Commies


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the first question to ask
If you're interested in Book of Mormon geography, the first question to ask is this:
Where is Cumorah?
The answer, of course, is in western New York, where Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery said it was. If someone tells you it's somewhere else, or that there are "two Cumorahs," you know they are repudiating Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery.
For me, there's no point in considering geography theories that put Cumorah anywhere else but in New York. This also applies to the "abstract maps," including those being taught at BYU.
You will find dozens, even hundreds, of different maps if you look online. You can assess them easily by seeing how they treat Cumorah.
One of the best known is the one at BYU Studies, here. https://byustudies.byu.edu/
Scroll to the bottom of the page. The first item under "Popular Pages" is "Charting the Book of Mormon." Click on that.
You'll find some useful material here, but there is also some misleading material. Scroll to
Section 13: Geography in the Book of Mormon
Here's the direct link: https://byustudies.byu.edu/charts/13-149-ten-essential-features-book-mormon-geography
This entire section is a disaster, IMO, Look at this one, for example.
13-149 Ten Essential Features of Book of Mormon Geography
These "Essential Features" have little if anything to do with the text. They are pure Mesomania, an effort to persuade people that the text actually described Mesoamerica.
The first one says "A narrow neck (isthmus) separated the land northward from the land southward and was flanked by an east sea and a west sea."
Of course, the text never uses the term isthmus. This is classic for Mesomania. The text doesn't describe anything about Mesoamerica--no jungles, no volcanoes, no huge stone pyramids, and even no Mayans--so the Mesoamerican advocates have to change the wording in the text to make it work.
You can go through all of the items in Section 13, and you'll see how they use this substitution technique throughout to justify their Mesoamerican theory.
Regarding the narrow neck, there are exactly, and only, two verses, and they're talking about two different features:
Alma 63:5
5 And it came to pass that Hagoth, he being an aexceedingly curious man, therefore he went forth and built him an exceedingly large ship, on the borders of the land bBountiful, by the land Desolation, and launched it forth into the west sea, by the cnarrow neck which led into the land northward.
Ether 10:20
20 And they built a great city by the anarrow neck of land, by the place where the sea divides the land.
Right here you see there are two different features described as a "narrow neck."
In Alma, the "narrow neck" led into the land northward. This is the one by which Haboth launched his ships, implying this is a narrow neck of water.
In Ether, it was a "narrow neck of land" which is a different term; i.e., this verse distinguishes the narrow neck from the one in Alma 63 by calling it a "narrow neck of land."
And yet all the Mesomania scholars conflate the two terms to fabricate their Mesoamerican setting.
The other analytical and logical fallacy used by Mesomania scholars is to treat the terms "land northward" and "land southward" as proper nouns instead of relative terms. If you're in Provo, Utah, Salt Lake City is "northward." But it you're in Logan, Salt Lake City is "southward."
The terms "northward" and "southward" describe locations relative to the location of the speaker or author at the time he/she speaks or writes.
This is just one example of how far afield people can get when they ignore what Joseph and Oliver said about Cumorah in New York.
You'll find plenty more. But you can avoid all of that by going to http://moronisamerica.com/
As always, I'm interested in anyone who can come up with a better explanation of Book of Mormon geography with Cumorah in New York.
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The sons of Eli, the priest, were not saved and did wicked things. They took the meat offered to God, in sacrifices, before it was ready for them to take; and took more than they should take. The sons of Eli had a right to have the meat, but they should take it just as God had said they should. But they wanted to have their own way. Their hearts were bad. Their father, Eli, had not punished them as he should for doing wrong, and God was not pleased with the sons nor with their father.
The Ark of the Covenant was an oblong chest made of wood, and covered with gold. It was 45 inches long, 27 inches wide, and 27 inches deep. It contained the Tables of Stone, a pot of manna -– a sample of the food God rained down from Heaven -– and Aaron's rod. The ark was very holy and was to be kept in a holy place. God was very particular about the way it was carried, and by whom it was carried. It was carried on the shoulders of four men. The Ark meant to those people somewhat the same as the Bible means to us today.
The Israelites decided to take the Ark with them into the battle. They thought God would help them if the Ark was there, but that was a terrible mistake, as we shall see. God had not told them to take the holy Ark into the battle, and he was not pleased with what they were doing. He let the enemy win the battle, and they took the holy Ark into their country. Many of the Israelites were killed, and Eli's two sons were killed. Eli was an old man now, almost a hundred years old. When he heard that the Ark was taken by the enemy, and his sons had been killed, he fell down and died.
When children disobey their parents they bring sorrow to their parents. But more than that -– they grieve the heart of God. It also brings great sorrow to parents if they do not punish their children and try to teach them the right things, the things God has commanded. It is wrong for parents not to punish their children when they should. It is terrible to disobey God. God will punish those who disobey Him. He punishes them for their own good and for the help of others.
A little girl named Grace had been playing outdoors, and the wind blew a hard, sharp bit of cinder into her eye. It hurt so much that the tears came into her eye, but they did not wash out the cinder. When she rubbed it, that only made it hurt worse. So she ran to her mother. The mother took Grace on her knee, and with the corner of a soft handkerchief tried to get the cinder out. But that hurt so badly the little girl cried even harder. She slid down from her mother's lap, and would not let her mother help her. But the mother told her that unless she took the cinder out, it could make Grace's eye so sore that she might not be able to see any more.
Grace came back and sat on her mother's knee again; and although she could not help the tears coming into her eyes, she did not scream nor struggle, even though it hurt her. Grace understood now that her mother knew best, and it was because her mother loved her that she worked until she had the cinder out of the eye. Although it pained her, it was all for her good. Just so God sometimes permits pain to come to us for our own good.
Mothers and fathers who are saved know what is best for their children. When they punish them it is for the good of the children. The greatest desire of Christian parents is to have their children saved and grow up to love and to serve the Lord with all their heart, and do all they can to help others to love Jesus and do His work.
1. Who won the battle? [1 Samuel:4:10And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen. ].
2. What happened to the Ark of God during the battle? [1 Samuel:4:11And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain. ].
3. What happened to Eli's two sons? [1 Samuel:4:11And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain. ].
4. Did Eli seem to be concerned about the Ark of God? [1 Samuel:4:13And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon a seat by the wayside watching: for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city, and told it, all the city cried out. ].
5. Do you think Eli was a good father to his children? [1 Samuel:3:13For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not. ].


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DOJ hasn't uncovered widespread fraud that would change election results: Barr
The comments to AP undercut allegations made by Trump and his legal team.
ByAlexander Mallin
December 1, 2020, 11:08 PM
• 10 min read
Attorney general declares no evidence of widespread voter fraud
Despite President Doanld Trump's claims, Attorney General Bill Barr told The Associated Press, "We have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election."
Jeff Roberson/AP, FILE
Attorney General William Barr said in an interview Tuesday that the Justice Department has uncovered no evidence of widespread voter fraud that would tip the results of the presidential election, a comment directly undercutting allegations being made by President Donald Trump and his legal team.
"To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election," Barr told the Associated Press.
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The comments are likely to infuriate President Trump and members of his legal team, who have increasingly turned their ire towards the Justice Department and FBI in recent days over the agencies' refusal to investigate baseless conspiracies of widespread voter fraud.
"You would think, if you're in the FBI or Department of Justice, this is -- this is the biggest thing you could be looking at," Trump said in a Sunday interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo. "Where are they? I have not seen anything. I mean, I just -- they just keep moving along, and they go on to the next president."
Attorney General William Barr speaks during a roundtable discussion, Oct. 15, 2020, in St. Louis.
Barr specifically singled out one theory peddled by Trump and his allies that vote tabulation machines had been tampered with in a way to skew the election towards President-elect Joe Biden.
"There's been one assertion that would be systemic fraud and that would be the claim that machines were programmed essentially to skew the election results. And the DHS and DOJ have looked into that, and so far, we haven't seen anything to substantiate that," Barr said.
Attorney General William Barr arrives at the White House on Dec. 1, 2020 in Washington.
Separately, Barr appointed Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham as special counsel to investigate the origins of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Durham was previously appointed to investigate any criminal wrongdoing in the way top leaders at the Justice Department and FBI handled the investigation, but Barr's decision to elevate him as a special counsel, done two weeks prior to the election, gives Durham an extra layer of protection -- he can't easily be fired in a Justice Department under a new administration.
"I decided the best thing to do would be to appoint them under the same regulation that covered Bob Muller, to provide Durham and his team some assurance that they'd be able to complete their work regardless of the outcome of the election," Barr told the AP on Tuesday.
Barr was seen arriving at the White House shortly after the interview was published but a spokesperson said it was for a "previously scheduled meeting" and not with the president. The attorney general left at about 5 p.m.
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The Trump campaign immediately released a statement from President Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and Trump campaign senior adviser Jenna Ellis saying Barr's "opinion appears to be without any knowledge or investigation of the substantial irregularities and evidence of systemic fraud."
They added, "With all due respect to the Attorney General, there hasn't been any semblance of a Department of Justice investigation."
In the days after Biden was officially projected as the winner of the election, Barr provoked outrage from current and former prosecutors when he issued a memo reversing longstanding DOJ policy intended to prevent announcements of election fraud investigations prior to states moving to certify their votes.
Barr said prosecutors were authorized "to pursue substantial allegations of voting and vote tabulation irregularities" in the event there are "clear and apparently-credible allegations of irregularities that, if true, could potentially impact the outcome of a federal election in an individual State."
At the same time, Barr urged investigators to be vigilant against "specious, speculative, fanciful or far-fetched claims" that he said "should not be a basis for initiating federal inquiries."
The memo led a top career official in the DOJ's elections crimes division to resign from his position, and a group of current federal prosecutors later sent a letter to Barr asking he rescind the policy reversal, calling it "not based in fact."
Sources close to Barr at the time who defended his decision to pen the memo described the elections policy as "antiquated," while saying that if no such investigation announcement was made as a result then it would, in the end, bolster arguments that the election was conducted securely and without massive fraud.
Samuel Corum/Getty Images
Attorney General Bill Barr leaves the U.S. Capitol after meeting with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in his office, Nov. 9, 2020 in Washington, D.C.
More than three weeks later, the DOJ and FBI have announced no such investigations relevant to the parameters of Barr's memo as an increasing number of states have moved forward with certifying their vote tabulations.
Barr told the AP that, to date, the department's investigations have been more isolated instances of potential fraud rather than anything indicating a systemic failure in how the election was carried out.
"Most claims of fraud are very particularized to a particular set of circumstances or actors or conduct," Barr said. "They are not systemic allegations and. And those have been run down; they are being run down," Barr said. "Some have been broad and potentially cover a few thousand votes. They have been followed up on."
Trump, who initially celebrated news of Barr's memo with a retweet, on Sunday went as far to suggest that the FBI and DOJ might be "involved" in an unspecified fraud conspiracy to elect Biden.
Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger criticized the comment in a tweet accusing the president of peddling "baseless conspiracies."
"The @FBI did not rig the election," Kinzinger, of Illinois, said. "If you find yourself believing they did, please stop, and say it out loud, and you will realize how silly it sounds." https://twitter.com/RepKinzinger/status/1333162550431801344
Other Trump allies have expressed similar exasperation at the FBI's unwillingness to involve itself, amid their ongoing campaign to convince Republican electors that they should refuse to validate their state's votes over incremental allegations of fraud.
"I don't know where the FBI has been for the last three years," Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani said in a Nov. 19 news conference. "What do we have to do to get the FBI to wake up? Maybe we need a new agency to protect us."
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Prior to his interview, Barr had gone more than a month without holding a public event and avoided giving any media interviews.
It was a notable contrast from his relatively frequent public appearances throughout the summer, including interviews where he repeatedly stoked conspiracies about foreign countries being able to flood the country with fraudulent mail-in ballots.
"This is playing with fire," Barr told CNN in a September interview. "We're very closely divided country here. And if people have to have confidence in the results of the election and the legitimacy of the government."
Barr's claim, however, was disputed by statements from top intelligence officials including the head of DHS' cyber division Christopher Krebs and National Counterintelligence and Security Center director William Evanina, who argued mail-in ballot systems were too complex for a foreign country to be able to successfully mount such a scheme. No evidence has thus far surfaced of any foreign countries successfully tampering with the election by mailing ballots into the U.S.
ABC News' Will Steakin contributed to this report.


Why should the Future not be known to us as the Past?
The Soul knows all things, the Soul being the Eternal Mind.
The self-inflicted eclipse of the Soul will not last for ever.
Sin is the result of Ignorance and Ignorance the cause of sin.
and man becomes a regenerate being.
of the Creator in the World and in Nature.
of Love that we can love and that loves us.
By Nature we mean the creative Life in Nature.
how differently we should live!
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The Elementary and Early Childhood Education (ECEE) major prepares candidates to teach all content areas in Pre-Kindergarten through grade 4 (PK-4). Requirements for successful completion of the major include coursework specific to elementary and early childhood learning environments, child development, and field experiences in grades PK-4 classrooms, as well as content and teaching methods courses specific to teaching language and literacy, mathematics, science, and social studies. Students who successfully complete this major will have met all coursework and field experience requirements for the PK-4 Instructional I Certificate issued by the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE). In addition, they will have been prepared for the appropriate PRAXIS exams, which are the standardized assessment required by PDE for this certification.
What is Elementary and Early Childhood Education?
The Elementary and Early Childhood Education (EECE) major prepares teachers of children from birth through fourth grade. Students in this program explore progressive theories of teaching and learning; learn how to be professional educators in diverse school settings; and develop skills in educational leadership, inclusive education, and professional inquiry. Our program is distinct in the opportunities it offers to work in exceptional preschools, an award-winning Professional Development School, and other educative settings.
You want to do the critically important work of teaching young children, and you recognize that being an educator is a learned profession that is both demanding and rewarding.
Students must apply for admission to the major. Students interested in the major should contact their advisor and enroll in a CI 295 field experience, which features participation in the classroom.
A minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.00.
Requirements 3-8 must be met by the end of the fourth semester when students typically participate in the Entrance-to-Major process.
Completion of at least 48 semester credit hours, including Rhetoric and Composition (ENGL 15) or Honors Freshman Composition (ENGL 30), six credits of quantification, and three credits of natural science as well as three credits of literature.
27 of the 45 credits for General Education are included in the Requirements for the Major. This includes: 6 credits of GH courses, 9 credits of GN courses, 6 credits of GQ courses, 6 credits of GS.
No additional coursework permitted during Student Teaching. Student Teaching may be completed fall or spring semester.
May be used to fulfill GHW.
Biologocial Science, Earth Science and Physical Science Selections lists of acceptable courses available here.
U.S. History Selection list of acceptable courses available here.
Literature Selection list of acceptable courses available here.
Family and Relationships Selection list of acceptable courses available here.
Educational Selection list of acceptable courses available here.
Must complete at least 3 cr. of United States (US) and 3 cr. of International Cultures (IL).
ETM notes a course is required for entrance to major/certification program.
All students must complete one lab course as indicated on the Natural Sciences (GN) Course Selection List.
Summer study could reduce some of the credit loads above.
Effective Fall 2012, all incoming Schreyer Honors College freshmen at University Park will take ENGL/CAS 137H in the fall semester and ENGL/CAS 138T in the spring semester. These courses carry GWS designation and replace both ENGL 030 and CAS 100. Each course is 3 credits. At the discretion of the college, ENGL/CAS 138T satisfies the first-year seminar requirement.
Academic Advising Notes: The course series listed above is only one of many possible ways to move through this curriculum. Please be sure to also use the curriculum checksheets and degree audits, as well as consult with an adviser about appropriate scheduling sequences, clearances for field experiences and Testing requirements. Advisers also can assist students in identifying coursework offered at Penn State in the SUMMER.
*MATH 200 and any 3 credits of GQ are accepted for ETM.
**Using KINES 126 and/or 127 for the GHW requirement will require 1.5-3 credits of additional electives.
At least one GN course must have a lab. Consult an adviser for more details. One GN course is needed for entrance to major (ETM).
MATH 200 and any 3 credits of GQ are accepted for entrance to major (ETM).
The SPLED minor or ESL cert should be completed by the end of Summer of the junior year.
All science selections must be met before enrolling in this course.
Biological Science, Earth Science and Physical Science Selections lists of acceptable courses available here.
The following courses are offered Fall Semester only: CI 280, 405, 495A, ECE 451, 479, KINES 126, LLED 497, MTHED 420, SPLED 400, SSED 430, SCIED 458.
The following courses are offered Spring Semester only: AED 303, CI 495D, 495F, ENGL 202B, LLED 400, 401, 402, MATH 201, MUSIC 241, KINES 127, SPLED 403A.
Students who want to enter this teacher certification program must earn a minimum cumulative GPA of a 3.00 by the end of the third (3rd) semester and pass three (3) PECT-PAPA exams in Reading, Writing, and Mathematics by the end of the third (3rd) semester in addition to the Entrance-to-Major requirements listed above. Consult adviser for details.
Courses listed in Semester 6, Semester 7, and Semester 8 must be taken together during the same semester. Consult adviser for details.
* Using KINES 126 and/or 127 for the GHW requirement will require 1.5-3 credits of additional electives.
No additional coursework permitted during Student Teaching. Student teaching may be completed in fall or spring semester.
Education is a profession and all teachers are expected to continue studying and developing new skills throughout their careers. In most U.S. states, teacher certification is a multi-stage process, with graduate study beyond a bachelor's degree expected early in a teacher's career. Graduates of this program who work in public schools usually go on to earn a master's degree, and often use those studies to earn additional credentials in areas like counseling, reading, teaching English learners, or special education. Graduates who work in early childhood education or nonformal settings also have the option of earning advanced degrees, and, as with public school teachers, have access to continuing education (CE) through school intermediate units, museums, and other nonprofits, and web-mediated CE systems. Alumni who wish to continue their studies at the graduate level through Penn State can do so at University Park and through the University's World Campus.
In addition to resources such as the College's Advising and Certification Center and Penn State Career Services, the University hosts large education career fairs in both the fall and spring semesters, which bring recruiters to campus from throughout Pennsylvania and the United States.