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Dallas Stars Injured Defense Will Be Big Obstacle to Overcome Down Stretch
By Brad Gardner Mar 20, 2011, 3:59am CDT
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CHICAGO IL - JANUARY 05: Nicklas Grossman #2 of the Dallas Stars hits Marian Hossa #81 of the Chicago Blackhawks in the chest at the United Center on January 5 2011 in Chicago Illinois. (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)
At one point on Saturday night the Dallas Stars were playing with exactly three defensemen available to them.
While the fan base has whined and moaned about the inability of Mark Fistric to find his way, through no fault of his own, to an NHL shift the last couple of weeks, his way back became clear against the Flyers. Undisclosed lower body injuries to both Nicklas Grossman and Karlis Skrastins have paved the way for Mark Fistric to return on Wednesday; Surely not the way any of us had pictured it.
Nick Grossman played only two shifts on Saturday before being shelved for the game with a lower body injury. The defenseman had recently missed several weeks with a bum hip before returning and there is some speculation that the same hip could be bothering him now.
Skrastins left sometime in the third period and his situation is even more ambiguous and possibly serious. Reports (little more than rumors at this point) were that Skrastins had taken a skate blade to the leg and was dealing with a serious laceration. After letting a few hours pass and the dust to settle this appears to be little more than rumor, and we'll wait and see before calling it the truth. Neither ESPN Dallas nor the DMN can report such a thing at this time, evidently, so we'll wait and see. Some of you have confirmed that Joe Nieuwendyk did indeed say this on The Ticket last night.
What we can say is that Stars GM Joe Nieuwendyk sounded hopeful on the Ticket Post Game Show that Loui Eriksson could possibly return on Wednesday for what is probably the most important game of the season yet.
Ironically, after the Stars fell behind 2-0 and lost several blue liners to injury, it was their defense (the battered, battered, tired defense) that heroically scored both goals last night and earned them a point.
If Skrastins and Grossman both are injured for any extended period of time, the Stars have some rearranging to do on their PK. Calling up Philip Larsen is not going to replace the skill sets of Skrastins and Grossman. Dallas' PK is almost assuredly going to take a hit soon with those players being out.
Fortunus could be an option as things move forward. Dallas will need to call up at least one body to fill in on D. If there is a positive here it's that the Stars, despite how many teams loss to far inferior competition last night (Red Wings, Kings...) did not drop, though 9th place got a little bit closer.

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'Cool grandfather' skates through disease to buff thighs
If you look at Yoo Young-joon from behind, gliding down the streets on his inline skates, you could be forgiven for thinking he's just another 20-year-old doing his thing. But get up close and you find that Mr. Yoo is actually 74 years old, although it's not that easy to distinguish him from other skaters in their helmets and hoods. Mr. Yoo is 176 centimeters (5.8 feet) tall, weighs 61 kilograms (134.5 pounds) and has a strong upright posture, which makes him look much younger.
Seeing him these days makes you wonder if he has ever been ill ― but 16 years ago, Mr. Yoo was diagnosed as a diabetic, and 10 years ago he survived a heart attack.
In order to improve his health, Mr. Yoo started swimming and golfing, but became attracted to inline skating four years ago when he read an article about a skaters' community.
"People around me were dead set against the idea. They said, it was a 'dangerous' activity for the old, and asked if I would be able to get along with the community members who are mostly youngsters," he said. But Mr. Yoo didn't care about such worries and through the Internet joined the community, called ILIS or "I love inline skating," whose members skate in the World Cup Park.
"The younger members in the community, who are my grandchildren's age if not younger, are very polite. When I appear at the park, they greet me first and share some beverages with me," Mr. Yoo said. "I felt myself getting younger around them."
Mr. Yoo was not worried about falling ― he knew break-fall techniques from judo in which he is a third-dan black belt.
However, it did take him around six months to be fully comfortable with inline skating, coached by his young friends.
"Inline skating is an activity that any older person can enjoy as long as they wear safety gear and don't do it excessively," said Mr. Yoo. "When you're skating, you feel refreshed, you move your body much, and it makes your leg muscles tight. Thanks to that, my thighs are as hard as quartz," he added.
Asked why he changed from golf to inline skating, he said, "Golf costs a lot and it's not a sport you can do whenever you want. But if you buy a pair of inline skates, you can use them everyday for free. I go inline skating almost everyday for at least one-and-a-half hours."
On weekends, he travels about 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) along the banks of the Han River. "If it rains? I go to indoor arenas."
When he first started inline skating, he bought a pair with a brake, specially designed for beginners. But after two years, he bought his current "expert" set with no brakes, although he still takes the occasional spill.
"When racing, I occasionally fall on purpose in order to avoid children riding bicycles. But usually, if you don't become competitive, there's nearly no reason to fall."
Mr. Yoo said he has successfully fought back against diabetes and his heart attack. "For years, my blood sugar level on an empty stomach has been 80 mg/dl. I get a check up every three months, and the doctor says I don't have any problems."
His two grandchildren think Mr. Yoo, who still works as a tax accountant, is a "cool grandfather," especially when he takes them inline skating in the park.
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Steam starts. FS files verify ok. FS in the library but will not start. I note that request cd key hangs with a requesting key message. I have my key stored away if I need it.
Just turned off the windows firewall. Nothing changed.
I installed the non steam FS. It does not start. The windows firewall popped up and I cleared FS for internet access. FS is visible in the list of processes for about 30 seconds then disappears.


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Q: Why maximum likelihood estimation use the product of pdfs rather than cdfs I'm learning logistic regression and got confused when I saw the equation of the textbook. I knew that for a continuous distribution, to calculate the probability, the pdf $f(x)$ is meaningless. Instead the cumulative density function $F(x)$ shall be used. Thus, since we're maximizing the probability, shouldn't we use the product of cdfs rather than pdfs on the right side of the MLE equation? Thank you!

UPDATE, and further questions:
This question brings up an interesting point about why we don't often use the fact that $Y=F(X)\sim U(0,1)$ and then try to minimise the KL divergence between $Y$ and $U$:
$$\text{KL}(Y, U) = \int_0^1 f_y(y) \ln f_y(y) \text{d}y$$
Typically we have easy access to the form of $f$ (the original pdf) but $F$ might be less tractable and $f_Y$ is basically something we would need to estimate using empirical CDFs based on the samples $F(X_i), i=...$. The question is, are the two formulations (the usual MLE and the KL version above) very different in their results?

A: How can a CDF be used to rank two possible parametrizations for a model? It is a cumulative probability, so it can only tell us the probability of obtaining such a result or a lower value given a probability model. If we took $\theta$ to predict the smallest possible outcomes, the CDF is nearly 1 at every observation and this would be the most "likely" in the sense that "yup, if the mean height were truly -99 I am very confident that repeating my sample would produce values smaller than the ones I observed".
We could balance the left cumulative probability with the right cumulative probability. Consider the converse in our calculation: a median unbiased estimator satisfies:
$$P(X < \theta) = P(X > \theta)$$
Here the best value of $\theta$ is the one for which $X$ is equally likely to be greater or less than it's predicted value (assuming $\theta$ is a mean here). But that certainly doesn't correspond with our idea of being able to rank alternate parameterizations as more likely for a particular sample.
Perhaps, on the other hand you wanted to be sure $X$ was very probable in a small interval of the value, that is maximize this probability:
$$P(\theta - d < X < \theta + d)/d = \left(F(X+d) - F(X-d)\right)/d$$
But how big should $d$ be? Well if $d$ is taken to be arbitrarily small:
$$\lim_{d \rightarrow 0} \left(F(X+d) - F(X-d)\right)/d = f(X)$$
And you get the density. It is the instantaneous probability function that best characterizes the likelihood of a specific observation under a parametrization.

A: You have an empirical dataset and want to find the best fitting parameters of a hypothetical distribution.  Say your empirical is Gaussian with mean 50, sd 10.
Let's let the algorithm make a guess... mean 0, sd 1. Your real points will be far in the tail of this guess, but we can summarize it by multiplying all the probabilities of your values based on an assumption of mean 0, sd 1.  Actually, instead of multiplying, let's sum the log, since that's more manageable.  Also, since our algorithm likes to minimize, not maximize, we'll flip the sign, so you end up with -logLiklihood.
Turns out that when you make a good guess for mean and sd, -LogLiklihood will be smaller than a bad guess. Rinse and repeat until the change in -logLiklihood is small enough, and there's your fit.
The CDF doesn't natively lend itself to this kind of objective function. Multiplying out the product of the PDF (or summing the log) tells you quite literally, the likelihood of your data under the hypothesis of a particular parameter set.

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Antique men's rings can be difficult to find for a few reasons. Men didn't buy jewelry for themselves as often as they bought it for their wives, so there was less of it made. Additionally, men worked with their hands more back then, which means less rings survived. This late 1930's ring is one of those few survivors.
This almost antique men's ring features nine Old European Cut diamonds of various sizes, set into a rimmed oval of white gold, surrounded by yellow gold, with an extremely fine checkerboard pattern on the shoulders. There are three main diamonds: two .20 (1/5th) carat and one .25 (1/4 carat). In between the main diamonds and on the ends are six more .03 carat diamonds. Total estimate carat weight for the ring is .83 carats.
The three main diamonds are all Old, Old European Cut (yes we meant to put old twice). This ring features older chunkier cut, Old European Cut diamonds. There is a chip on the center diamond, which is slightly noticeable by the naked eye. If you didn't know it was there, you wouldn't know to look for it. Two of the .03 carat diamonds also have chips that are noticeable under a 10x loupe; one is slightly noticeable by the naked eye. One of the .20 diamonds has a white feathery inclusion. The diamonds are mostly uniform in color and sparkle nicely, with the exception of the .03 carat diamonds on the end, which are darker than the rest.
Condition: Good, a few chips on three out of nine diamonds, slightly to not noticeable by the naked eye.
Date: We are dating this ring as 1930's - 1940's, due to the 14K purity mark (14K formally adopted in 1932), combined with the presence of white gold and Old European Cut diamonds.


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This Hallowe'en, check out a chilling collection of stories from North American authors, compiled and edited by Laura Callender of Collaborative Writing Challenge fame.
Tony Stark has included a tale in The Grim Keepers, entitled Remus. It is an accounting of the events that transpired following the pivotal incident of the founding of Rome… in this story, Remus, trapped on the edges of life following his murder, uses the magical time of All Hallows Eve to settle accounts with his brother Romulus.
Below, find the interview regarding the Anthology- Many thanks to Virginia Carraway Stark for the interview opportunity!
Interview with Anthony Stark about his upcoming short story in The Grim Keepers anthology available October 23!
1. What is your favourite part about writing scary fiction?
My favorite part about scary fiction is the more subtle, spiritual aspect of horror. I like finding the place where culture meets horror and expanding that membrane, making myths and legends meet the modern day.
2. What inspired your story for The Grim Reapers anthology?
My inspiration for this story is, of course, the Roman legend of Romulus and Remus. With the fading of the year, the plight of Remus the famous ghostly brother seemed fitting. I combined it with oriental ideas of Yang and Yin, because in the old myths, demigods didn't just die that easily… So I asked, what happened to all the life Romulus stole, and what dark place would that have left his brother?
3. What scares you most?
The things that scare me most are stories without beauty, hope and redemption. That's not a good scary, either, but a horrible terror. The current obsession with worlds and movies that are post-post apocalyptic in nature, where everything is FUBARed and a 'happy' ending is merely some twisted form of survival for another day, that scares me. It scares me just as much that people eat up these bleak tales as that people can think to make them, let alone make them into gigantic movies. So much energy goes into them; like any creative product, it propagates itself in the world. That is truly scary.
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SAN ANTONIO - Hours after an 18-year-old was fatally shot by a San Antonio police officer, Police Chief William McManus now says the teen wasn't armed, contrary to earlier reports that he had a gun in his waistband.
McManus said an officer was dispatched to a "known drug house" in the 200 block of Roberts Street around 1 a.m. regarding an assault.
McManus said someone who had knocked on the door "selling something" was assaulted by a person inside the house.
The officer called for backup, as the house was known to authorities who had been called to the home more than 50 times since Jan. 1, McManus said.
When backup arrived, the officers approached the home and saw the door was open. Police made contact with a 24-year-old man who was sitting on a couch inside the home, McManus said.
According to the chief, the 24-year-old, who has not been identified, immediately stood up and began walking away from the officer while reaching for a gun in his waistband.The officer saw this and shot the man several times.
The 24-year-old survived, but 18-year-old Charles Roundtree, who was sitting in the line of fire, was accidentally struck by at least one bullet that had passed through the 24-year-old. Roundtree died at the scene.
The officer who fired his weapon was placed on administrative duty. McManus said the officer has been with the department for approximately five years.
Police said a "very large pit bull who was threatening officers in the street" was also fatally shot.
Authorities said two people who were at the home at the time of the shooting were taken to police headquarters for questioning, but no one was charged.
McManus said that while the house is known as a drug house, legal issues have prevented the department from shutting it down.


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Snow accumulations of 1-3 inches are possible along the I-70 corridor of central Kansas, with a rain and snow mix more likely in south central and southeast Kansas, forecasters say. Wichita isn't expected to have any snowfall accumulation, but forecasters predict 2 inches in Salina and Great Bend and 4 inches in Concordia.
The cold temperatures will continue into a sunny and clear Monday, with a high near 45 and a low around 28, NWS predictions say. A widespread freeze is possible for much of the area next week with cold temperatures that could potentially break records.
Any measurable snowfall this weekend in Wichita would set a record. NWS data for maximum snowfall at Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport show no measurable snowfall has been recorded this early in October since record keeping began in 1888.
The earliest recorded autumn snowfall in Wichita was two-tenths of an inch on Oct. 22, 1996, NWS records show.
Chilly temperatures on Sunday and Monday will have a potential to set weather service records.
For Sunday, the predicted high of 44 would set a record for the coolest high-temperature for Oct. 14. The record is 45, set in 1937. The forecast low of 31 wouldn't break the record low of 30 set in 1969.
Monday's forecast high of 45 would break the record for coolest high-temperature for Oct. 15, set at 52 in 2009. The predicted low of 28 would be colder than the 33 set in 1974.


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Posted on January 12, 2021 by Paul Mirengoff in Anti-Semitism, Joe Biden, Race and racial bias
Joe Biden's racist civil rights nominee, Part One
Kristen Clarke is Joe Biden's choice to head the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department. But Biden probably doesn't know Clarke, so in a sense she is the choice of the radical BLM crowd, which demanded a similarly radical pick in exchange for Biden having had the audacity to pick a White male to run the DOJ. It's no coincidence that Al Sharpton was quick to praise the selection of Clarke.
It turns out, however, that Clarke has a history of racism and anti-Semitism. As a student at Harvard, where she was president of the Black Students Association, she presented her views on the alleged genetic differences between blacks and whites to the school newspaper (The Harvard Crimson).
Clarke claimed that blacks have "superior physical and mental abilities." In support of this contention she cited the following:
One: Dr Richard King reveals that the core of the human brain is the 'locus coeruleus,' which is a structure that is Black, because it contains large amounts of neuro-melanin, which is essential for its operation.
Two: Black infants sit, crawl and walk sooner than whites.
Three: Carol Barnes notes that human mental processes are controlled by melanin — that same chemical which gives Blacks their superior physical and mental abilities.
Four: Some scientists have revealed that most whites are unable to produce melanin because their pineal glands are often calcified or non-functioning. Pineal calcification rates with Africans are five to 15 percent, Asians 15 to 25 percent and Europeans 60 to 80 percent. This is the chemical basis for the cultural differences between blacks and whites.
Five: Melanin endows Blacks with greater mental, physical and spiritual abilities — something which cannot be measured based on Eurocentric standards.
Among Whites, Clarke held Jews in particular contempt. She endorsed an anti-Semitic professor, Tony Martin, author of the book, The Jewish Onslaught: Dispatches from the Wellesley Battlefront.
Clarke invited Martin to speak at Harvard. In his address, Martin excoriated Jews and Judaism. He trashed the Torah, the Talmud, and the writings of Maimonides as being racist texts. He claimed that Jews were the first people to develop racist theories. "There was a Jewish monopoly over Blacks being cursed," he said.
What was Clarke's reaction? According to a report by The Harvard Crimson, she stated, "Professor Martin is an intelligent, well versed Black intellectual who bases his information of indisputable fact."
For Sharpton, Clarke's racism and anti-Semitism are features, not bugs. We'll see whether the Biden administration and/or Senate Democrats concur.
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Why would you interview a public speaker when your podcast is about meetings?
My wife asked me this question a number of times when I was preparing for this episode. To me, meetings and on-stage presentations are closely linked. Whether you are speaking at a conference or in front of a meeting room, you are putting yourself in the spotlights. And to most of us (myself included), that's not our comfort zone.
My guest for this episode is Spencer Waldron. Spencer is the Regional Director Europe of Prezi, the cloud-based presentation platform. A marketing veteran with more than 20 years of experience, he's also a frequent speaker at business conferences across Europe on topics like storytelling and leadership communication.
This episode is packed with the lessons that Spencer learned the hard way – by being on stage. How do you best prepare for talks, how do you handle your nerves when being in the spotlights and how do you create a story that people will actually listen to? To top it off, we also explore how you can use these lessons to make yourself heard in smaller settings like business meetings.
This is how Spencer Waldron (right) and I looked after our conversation on one of the hottest days ever measured in Amsterdam.


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Former Indian Idol contestant Avanti Patel, sister duped of Rs 1.75 lakh in cyber fraud
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A police officer confirmed that based on a complaint by former Indian Idol contestant Avanti Patel, a case was registered under section 420 of the Indian penal code and different sections of the Information Technology Act.


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Name and Logo Unveiled for David Beckham's MLS team
By Editor September 6, 2018
Football icon David Beckham has officially revealed the name and logo design of his Major League Soccer team.
Set to debut in the 2020 season, the team will be called Club Internacional de Futbol Miami – or Inter Miami CF for short.
The name celebrates Miami as "a truly global location that welcomes and embraces all cultures and communities," and is a nod to "Miami's international, diverse, inclusive, creative and ambitious spirit," according to a club statement.
"This is such a proud day for myself and for the entire team. It's an honour to announce the new name and crest to our fans," said Beckham in a press release issued yesterday. "We are taking another important step in establishing our club and today marks an important moment in the history of Club Internacional de Fútbol Miami."
The ex-Manchester United, Real Madrid, Paris St-Germain and AC Milan star says he was after "a South American flavour" when conceiving the new crest, which features two herons with interlocking legs as well as a solar eclipse that is said to represent "the people of Miami's determination to work day and night".
In addition to announcing its name and logo, the club yesterday also released its official website, social-media handles and motto, namely, "Libertas, Unitas, Fortuna." The latter is claimed to pay tribute to the concepts of "freedom, unity, solidarity, inclusiveness, opportunity and good fortune for all."
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Join us as we celebrate the connection between veterans and students at our inaugural fundraising dinner. Help honor Vietnam Veteran Rick Romley as we present him with our 2019 "Storyteller Award". Dance to big band swing music. Purchase a ticket to win one of our fabulous door prize packages...you may even win a trip to Washington, D.C.! Meet our special guest, Medal of Honor Recipient Sammy Davis. Your support will help us bring our program to more schools and communities.
Veterans Heritage Project is proud to recognize The Honorable Rick Romley with our inaugural "Storyteller Award". Rick served four elected terms as the Maricopa County Attorney [1989-2004] and was appointed as interim Maricopa County Attorney in 2010. Since leaving office, Rick started his own legal consulting firm and has served as a Judge in our Veterans Court since 2016.
Rick joined the United States Marine Corps as a youth and served as a combat infantry squad leader in Vietnam until wounded in 1969. Rick received numerous commendations, including the Purple Heart. In 2001, Rick received two additional National Awards for his service in defense of our country: LIFE's Presidential Unsung Hero Award and America's Outstanding Disabled American Veteran of the Year. Rick was inducted into the Arizona Veterans Hall of Fame in 2007.
Rick's service story was captured by Veterans Heritage Project (VHP) student Patrick Ward in the 2009 edition of Since You Asked.TM He shared lessons of inner strength and a heavy belief in "Service before Self," which he continues to demonstrate through a commitment to fellow veterans and to creating awareness for VHP's mission.
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Love them or hate them, but it is difficult to deny the huge role emojis play in how we communicate in modern times. The tiny images make our text-messages come alive, and new research shows people respond to emoticons the same way they would to an actual person, encouraging us to increase our interactions with one another.
These little graphics on our mobile devices have come a long way from their birthplace of Japan. Initially created by the country's premier mobile carrier, NTT DoCoMo, emojis were first launched as a set of 172 pictographic images to accompany the company's messaging platform. The characters were a quick hit with Japanese consumers, and as mobile messaging services expanded globally, emojis came along for the ride, demonstrating their global appeal.
But are emojis helping reenforce gender stereotypes? Makers, the digital and video storytelling platform of women's stories, is criticizing emojis' collection of female images, charging that choices for young girls remain limited to being brides and princesses, partaking in activities such as salsa dancing.
While Makers commends the recently diversified updated emoji alphabet, which includes emoji with a variety of skin tones, sexual orientation, and even professions, when it comes to women and girls the options suddenly run slim. It seems as though even in 2015, when it comes to women's rights our everyday technology is stuck in the 1950s.
"Compared to larger global women's issues, emojis may seem insignificant, but these tiny characters have become the primary language young girls use to express themselves in text messages or on social media," Makers says.
If you are having difficulty actually visualizing what empowering emojis, Makers is already a step ahead. By designing femojis such as feminist icon Gloria Steinem, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, comedian Mindy Kaling, media tycoon Oprah Winfrey, and pop diva, Beyonce Makers is telling Apple, and other mobile developers, that to really make an effort to advocate diversity, they need greater representation of women in their emoji alphabet. Anything would really send the wrong message to girls.
Limiting the roles we see women and girls depicted in emojis is also equally damaging for boys. Why limit a young user, regardless or gender, in the roles they should be conditioned seeing women in? If emojis are to be a permanent fixture in our global tech communication, is it not better they encourage girls to be business moguls or lawyers over princesses?
We should treat emojis the same way we approach advertising and products aimed at children. Bottom line? Messaging to our youngest consumers, our next generation should be one that teaches and encourages diversity and equality across the board.
While Makers deserves a huge applause for making us expand our vision of emojis, the next move is up to tech giants, like Apple, to make Makers' femojis come to life. By including them in their next IOS update, Apple could play a huge role in creating the next generation of feminists, and empowering young girls' vision.
Mobile companies should seize this opportunity. I know I would take the Oprah femoji over the bride or salsa dancer emoji any day. And I hope my daughter would, too if she had the choice.
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I had no idea femojis even existed!
They don't yet, but hopefully soon?


Following strong consumer demand, Entertainment One (eOne) has secured a raft of new partners for its pre-school show, Peppa Pig, in the US and Canada.
Boasting over 70 licensees and counting, eOne has secured additional new partners and renewed licensing agreements for the global show.
New partners include the likes of American Greetings and Colgate, plus the firm has secured renewals with Fiesta, Tin Box and more.
"Peppa Pig continues to be a well-loved brand in North America. We're excited to extend our existing partnerships and cement new relationships with such an outstanding group of companies for the world's largest market," said Joan Grasso, VP for licensing North America at eOne Family.


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The Health Department also serves as the pass-through agency for the state's Trauma Fund of about $9 million a year. Last year, however, the Trauma Fund initially lost six months of funding when its funding sources were swept into the state's General Fund. The Health Department was asked to make up the difference.
The Department of Health is now faced with an almost 50 percent cut in state funding, partly because funding for the state Trauma Fund now comes entirely out of the Health Department's budget allotment.
Our state has for too long had an unhealthy population with too many preventable deaths and injuries. The Health Department is tasked with making our state healthier, and the professionals who work at the Health Department work very hard to do just that.
If we fall back into doing what we have always done and slow the work to stop preventable deaths and the spread of communicable diseases by dramatically underfunding the Department of Health, we put the health of every Mississippian — from newborns to the aged —at risk.
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Lynn Evans is a former Jackson School Board member and a contributing columnist.


First real release for 2016 and it's Blue Sky Complex! Yay!(●´∀`)ノ♡ The next chapter will be the last for this series. I already passed it to our translator so hopefully we can update this again sometime next month or at the earliest (´∀`)♡ Thank you so much to the people who helped me with this project; you know who you are!
I will also update Sore o Koigokoro to Yobu no Nara by Ichikawa Kei soon-ish. Anyway, enjoy!
for Ichikawa Kei, for this series. I hope you are able to release the last chapter soon. I still really appreciate it though. I could read the original, but i can't even find it, so I'm kinda stuck waiting. But I really appreciate your work, really. Ok, I'm gonna shut up now.
I thought there were 12 chapters.
Oh my.. I missed so many releases. While I was madly busy, you've been even busier! Thank you so much for your hard work!!


On August 30, a supervision conference for the special national key R&D project on smart grid technology and equipment, the project "Research and Application of Key Technology for Intelligent Dispatching and Security Early-warning of Bulk Power Grid", led by CEPRI, was held in Nanjing. The attendees included the leaders and experts of the Science & Technology Department and the National Power Dispatching and Control Center of SGCC and other project undertakers.
The supervision team conducted rigorous assessment and inquiry on the organization & management, technical progress, phased results, and financial status of the project and its subjects. It was agreed that the project was appropriately implemented as scheduled, with the technical route being in accordance with the task specification and the phased assessment indicators being all reached.
The project, following the vision of "one power grid, one set of model and one set of system", aims to build a technical supporting system for dispatching & control applicable to distributed monitoring and whole-grid unified analysis and decision-making of large-scale AC/DC hybrid power grids. After its completion, dispatching & control centers will not conduct analysis and decision-making in their own way, instead, lean decision-making in dispatching & control within the whole grid will be realized, which will allow better prefiguration, pre-judgment and pre-control and better intellectualization in bulk power grid dispatching and realize "automatic navigation" for optimized grid operation and "smart decision-making" for security risk prevention and control.


I'm new to scribe and working on a project. At the beginning an image icon is drawn then the title is scribed (to the right) all while zooming in. Then, it zooms out so that the title is at the top of the canvas.
Q: An image that is to the left of the title is cut off when the title is being scribed. How can I prevent this?
Next, a rectangle is drawn below the img icon and title to act like a border. The rectangle is drawn centered but then shifted to different sides.
Q: Is there way to have the camera position completely fixed for the scribe so that the only zoom is during the img icon and title scribe?
By default VideoScribe will try and fill the screen with each image/text which is what I think you are describing.
You can select multiple items and set the camera position for them all at the same time or if you prefer you can set the camera for individual elements but there is no global camera setting for the whole scribe.
I couldn't find any tutorials for V2 earlier. This helps a lot!


Beetiful designed the book cover for Shadow Space, the second book in the Singularity Conspiracy trilogy by Nicholas Erik. Find out more about Nicholas and his books from the Nicholas Erik website. Beetiful also designed the book covers for the other two books in the series, Shadow Memories and Shadow Sunset, and the omnibus edition, The Singularity Conspiracy Omnibus.
Two months after the events of Shadow Memories, private investigators Cassie Atwood and Kurt Desmond have spiraled into the abyss.
Business is slow. Their relationship is in tatters. Then again, that's all pretty normal. Everything might be falling apart, but at least the Singularity haven't shown up again.
But one night, after bailing Kurt out of the drunk tank, Cassie hands him a cryptic new assignment: Track down a local reporter named Harmony Meadows and ask her about a mysterious man named Dobson. Less than 24 hours later, Cassie, Harmony and Kurt are on the run to San Francisco, in desperate search of a clandestine artifact smuggler known only as the Dragon.
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Q: Use TeamViewer for another PC to act as a 2nd Monitor? I have a second standalone PC with TeamViewer installed.  Is there any way I can use TeamViewer to set it up to serve as a second screen - (extend, not duplicate)?  i.e., the other PC should basically be showing a different screen to my PC, via TeamViewer.

A: I'd try this method. Fake that you have a second desktop, and then use team viewer to view the second desktop. Here's the link: Is there a way to fake a dual (second) monitor

A: You could only do this if you wanted a monitor clone - it would not work if you wanted a typical "extended desktop" dual monitor setup.
By Teamviewing one PC from another, you could see teh contents of the target machine on both monitors, but you cannot use it to extend one PC monitor to another.
What you want could be accomplished wiht a couple of long(ish) cables and either a dual-port graphics card or possibly a splitter (assuming your GPU supports it)


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And so we begin to move on . . .
We'll spend one more day deep into Tebowmania – what was and what wasn't and why – then we'll let the aftermath drift into the rearview.
I could wax poetically a while longer, but I'm a bit worn out from checking and re-checking the timeline, and from doing my small part – albeit unsuccessfully – keep the sides sane. Time to start moving forward.
Let's get to it . . . Ryan from Jacksonville:
First, words can't express how happy I am that Tim Tebow isn't coming to Jacksonville. However, I don't like how the reports are saying that he turned us down. Is this just another shot at Jax from the national media or did our front office lose their collective mind and push for him?
John: Shad Khan had Gene Smith explore the possibilities of trading for Tebow. The front office did that. Reports Thursday are that the Jaguars offered a slightly better financial and compensation package (i.e., draft picks) to the Broncos and that Tebow chose the Jets because he felt more wanted there. That appears to be because Tebow thought he would get more of a chance to play quarterback with the Jets and because the Jets' coaches and front-office perhaps wooed him more during the process. The Jaguars have said for a while that they plan to develop Blaine Gabbert as their quarterback. Khan said it in a statement again Wednesday, and the result of Tebow's decision seems to support that. Bottom line: The Jaguars wanted Tebow a certain way, and it appears that wasn't to be the franchise quarterback. They're far from alone on that front, and it appears the Jaguars' biggest misstep in the Tebow sweepstakes may have been honesty. That' a "misstep" I can live with.
Tom from Jacksonville:
I doubt this will get printed, because it is a direct shot at the new man in charge. It is extremely obvious that Gene was not behind or wanted anything to do with this. I think it is very arrogant to come in and play football god when you are an owner. I cannot be more disappointed because the writing is on the wall – this owner does not understand basic football. I have not met one person that would buy season tickets if Tebow was coming. I am very skeptical of Mr. Khan and extremely disappointed. What has Khan done to his relationship with the WHOLE personnel department? You worked in Indy and saw how you build a successful franchise. You will never admit it, but I know you are 100 percent behind me. It will be our little secret. You got to feed the family so go answer some lollipop questions.
John: No reason for secrecy, and it's indeed a question that has been asked often in the last few days. I thought Khan's statement Wednesday answered many questions and I thought how the trade played out revealed much about the reality of the pursuit. Did Khan ask that Smith explore the idea of a trade? Yes. But if Khan had really been of the mind to override everything Smith was building and to sacrifice the development of Gabbert for Tebowmania he could have done so: all it would have taken was offering the Broncos more than they received from the Jets – i.e., a third-round selection. The Broncos may have wanted to do right by Tebow, but do you think they would have turned down a significantly better offer just to make Tebow happy? Also, Khan in theory could have told Smith, "I want Tebow badly enough to make him the starting quarterback. Get him at any cost." Had that been the scenario, a second- or third-rounder wouldn't have been too much. Khan in the end did what he indicated in January he would have done had he been the owner in 2009 – he tried to acquire Tebow at something resembling a reasonable price and to play a role that made sense from a football standpoint. When it didn't happen, he didn't force Smith to be ridiculous about it. Credit to Khan for that.
Richard from Boulder, CO:
Mr. Khan strikes me more and more as an excellent leader. As an organizational development consultant, I was particularly interested how he was going to navigate this situation with Tim Tebow, because of the strong dichotomy between a football-only issue and a business issue. The two issues are often considered mutually exclusive, and as a result, decisions tend to favor one side over the other. In my view, Mr. Khan allowed both sides the opportunity to be considered and in the end made a decision he feels is best for the organization moving forward. As a fan, I find that approach to be quite reassuring and hopeful. John, I think wherever people fall on the Tim Tebow debate, I would hope they can understand -- just a little bit -- how difficult a situation this was for the organization. It may not have been the outcome some fans wanted, but Mr. Khan tackled this situation head-on and did so with integrity. The Jaguars are in good hands.
John: Well put.
Brett from Ocoee, FL:
I'm elated that Tebow did not find his way onto the Jaguars roster. Florida Gator, Tim Tebow fanatics are not Jaguars fans. I know plenty of them who became Broncos fans all of a sudden and I'm fairly certain they will all be Jets fans by the weekend. I hope that Mr. Khan soon realizes that real Jaguars fans that grew up watching Mark Brunell, Jimmy Smith and Fred Taylor are graduating from high school and college and getting jobs and one of the first things we intend to do is get a permanent seat in Jacksonville to watch our team play. We want to be relevant in December, not in March.
John: I include your email because it speaks to a crucial issue in this. Many readers believe I did not want Tebow here, and I have been pretty up front that I have my doubts that he will be a long-term answer at quarterback in the NFL. I am hardly alone in that, and it should be noted that while there are fans who are slanting this as if the Jaguars missed on their lone opportunity to be relevant, 31 other teams also opted to not spend more than a fourth- and seventh-round selection to get him. That shows there is league-wide doubt as to his value. That said, I was still intrigued by the idea of Tebow because it is my hope that the Jaguars are relevant and drawing crowds for the long-term. I am from Jacksonville, work for the Jaguars and consider this home. Therefore, I have a vested interest in the long-term stability of the team. Your email speaks to a central issue of Tebow – i.e., would he have solidified the franchise on a long-term basis? On that point, I wonder. I was intrigued by the possibility, but skeptical if it would occur in reality. My concern was that the fans that would have come to the Jaguars for Tebow would have left had something gone wrong – i.e., had he just been a situational player, had he earned the job and become average, had he been the disaster some predicted. Would some of those fans have stayed? That is a possibility, and that would have been the most important thing to watch. We'll never know, but I agree with what I sense is the gist of your email – that this team will solidify itself over the years not based on signing or not signing Tebow, but on continuing to do things the right way, winning over the long haul and building a loyal, passionate fan base. That takes time, and I believe they're still on the path to doing that.
John from Alexandria, VA:
Dear Jaguars: I'm a Jets fan now.
John: If you pull back and think rationally, I think you'd find you're a Tebow fan. And that's OK.
Curry from Jacksonville:
So now that the Tebow uproar is over, I have a serious question that I hope you answer. The Jags are looking at LEE EVANS and LEGEDU NAANEE. Are we looking to sign both of them? I heard Evans was here on Wednesday.
John: It likely would be one or the other. Evans was here Wednesday, and he makes some sense. He may not be the player he was in his prime, but he played for Mike Mularkey in Buffalo and his lack of productivity last season was in large part due to injury. His production had declined in two years before that, too, so I don't know that you're thinking of him as a 1,000-yard, go-to-guy as much as a veteran who can help you get better and be a bridge to the future.
Dustin from Jacksonville:
I think Goodell has officially ushered in a new era in the NFL, the "Business Era." Failing to hand out drastic punishments would have opened the league up to lawsuits that would cripple the league. I'm also glad it's over because I am fed up with hearing "It's not fair because everybody's doing it." Not only does that not justify bad behavior, but it's that exact attitude that perpetuated this entire debacle. What's your take on the whole situation?
John: My take is what it has been from the beginning. The league investigated the Saints and told them to stop with the bounties. The Saints did not stop and as is the case with my son, the punishment from dad is a lot worse when I've already told him no, not that he would ever defy the O-Zone.
Stan from Jacksonville:
Forget the day Jags got sold and Del Rio got fired. This may be the craziest day in our history.
John: I don't know if it was the craziest day I've covered in sports, but it wasn't far off. And I was there when Del Rio was fired and when Jim Mora said, "Playoffs."
Kristian from Belo Horizonte:
I think Jets just showed us why jaguars.com doesn't post anything until moves have been totally finalized. But seriously, I don't really care where Tebow ends up - this Jets blunder is the most fun I've had all week.
John: It certainly has been something to behold, and yes, this scenario is the reason for jaguars.com's policy. While we at jaguars.com are in the business of bringing Jaguars information to fans as quickly as possible, there are football reasons for the way we do things.
Candice from Jacksonville:
I feel hurt, betrayed and downright pissed off!! I feel like the ole high school sweetheart that had a chance to be reunited with her first love, but instead he chose Kim Kardashian. MEN! I hoped Tim was different!!
John: Thanks, Candice. That one made me smile.
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(1983-07-04) 4 July 1983 (age 37)[1]
Calcutta, India
British, Indian
Graveney School
Downing College, Cambridge
Channel 5 (formerly)
The Independent (formerly)
Media Editor of BBC News (2016–present)
Charlotte Faircloth
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Amol Rajan (formerly V. Amol and Amol Varadarajan;[1] born 4 July 1983) is an Indian-born British journalist and broadcaster. He has been the BBC's Media Editor since December 2016.[2]
Rajan was editor of The Independent newspaper from June 2013.[3] When The Independent announced it was dropping the print edition in February 2016, and continuing as only an online operation, Rajan was retained for a period as "editor-at-large".
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Rajan was born in Calcutta, India, to a mother from Pune and a Tamil father from Kumbakonam.[1] Due to Tamil naming customs, Rajan was born V. Amol, with the V. for his father's given name of Varadarajan.[1] This name was modified to Amol Varadarajan when he came to England, and the family later changed their surname to Rajan.[1]
Rajan was three when his family moved to England,[3] and was raised in Tooting, South West London.[4] The son of Hindu parents, he has not believed in any god since the age of 15.[5][6] He was state school educated at Graveney School[7][3] and read English at Downing College, Cambridge,[8] where he contributed to Varsity.[9] He was editor of the student newspaper for a term in 2005.[10] At the age of 18, Rajan worked in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) for one year during his gap year.[11]
Rajan was the secondary presenter on The Wright Stuff, the daytime talk show on the Five network,[12] during its 2006–7 series. He was also a researcher on the programme.
He joined The Independent newspaper in August 2007, where he was over the next few years a news reporter, sports correspondent, columnist, comment editor,[13] and editor of Independent Voices.[14] He has also written a Monday column for the London Evening Standard, restaurant criticism for The Independent on Sunday,[14] and has contributed to The Salisbury Review. The latter publication, according to Rajan, "still publishes writing on politics, history and culture that is among the finest produced in English today. It is frequently offensive, and I cannot say I often agree with its editorial position, but that is all the more reason to read it."[15]
In 2013, aged 29, Rajan became the first non-white editor of a national newspaper when his Independent appointment was announced,[3][7] although that claim has also been made on behalf of Rachel Beer.[16] His predecessor as editor of The Independent, Chris Blackhurst, became Group Content Director.[17] When The Independent proprietor Evgeny Lebedev announced a move to digital-only in February 2016, with the imminent closure of the print edition, it emerged that Rajan would remain with the company to help facilitate the change in direction.[18]
His role as editor-at-large for The Independent website ended after he was appointed as the BBC's first Media Editor in November 2016, and he assumed his new post on 12 December.[2][19] He has also hosted The Big Debate on the BBC Asian Network.[20]
From May 2017, he has presented The Media Show on BBC Radio 4 in succession to Steve Hewlett.[21] Since 2017, Rajan has provided holiday cover for several presenters on BBC Radio 2, including Simon Mayo,[22] Jeremy Vine[23][24] and Zoe Ball.[25] Rajan has occasionally presented The One Show.[26]
Rajan is a cricket enthusiast,[27] and plays for the Authors XI cricket team.[28] His first book, Twirlymen, the Unlikely History of Cricket's Greatest Spin Bowlers, was published by Random House in 2011.[29] He married Charlotte Faircloth, an academic, in Cambridge in September 2013.[30]
^ a b c d e Rajan, Amol (17 March 2018). "Two words, nine letters and the endless, infinite trauma of my name". New Statesman. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
^ a b "Amol Rajan appointed as BBC's first media editor". BBC News. 21 November 2016. Retrieved 21 November 2016.
^ a b c d Josh Halliday "Amol Rajan appointed as Independent editor", The Guardian, 17 June 2013
^ Amol Rajan "From Tooting to Islington, our high streets are bereft of buzz and variety", The Independent, 13 November 2012
^ Rajan, Amol (6 January 2012). "Belief without a faith to follow". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
^ Rajan, Amol (27 December 2011). "Amol Rajan: Religious lessons of Christmas for a non-believer". The Independent.
^ a b The Independent's Amol Rajan Becomes UK's First Non-White National Editor", The Huffington Post, 17 June 2013
^ "Asian Network;s Big Debate: Amol Rajan", BBC Asian Network, retrieved 12 June 2020.
^ Mark Sweney; Chris Johnston (12 February 2016). "Independent aims to keep stars and boost quality in digital shift". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
^ Rosie Boycott "What I learnt from a night with Daisy", The Observer, 17 April 2005
^ Amol Rajan [1], standard.co.uk, 14 August 2014
^ Amol Rajan "Still top of the morning: Channel Five's The Wright Stuff turns 10", The Independent, 16 September 2010
^ "Amol Rajan" Archived 19 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine, David Higham (agent's page)
^ a b "Amol Rajan", Independent biography page
^ Amol Rajan "Sooner or later, every voice is heard and heeded", The Independent, 15 March 2012
^ Nina Macintyre "The First Lady of Fleet Street", Prospect (blog), 19 June 2013
^ William Turvill "Amol Rajan is made editor of The Independent as Chris Blackhurst becomes group content director", Press Gazette, 17 June 2013
^ Armstrong, Ashley (12 February 2016). "The Independent newspaper confirms an end to print production". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
^ "Former Independent editor Amol Rajan named BBC's new media editor". The Independent. 21 November 2016. Retrieved 21 November 2016.
^ Ponsford, Dominic (21 November 2016). "Amol Rajan appointed as the BBC's first media editor". Press Gazette. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
^ "Amol Rajan announced as presenter of BBC Radio 4's The Media Show". BBC Media Centre. 28 April 2017. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
^ "BBC Radio 2 - Simon Mayo Drivetime, Amol Rajan sits in". Retrieved 29 July 2017.
^ "Airport Drinking and Mental Stability, Jeremy Vine - BBC Radio 2". BBC. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
^ "Amol Rajan sits in". BBC Radio 2.
^ "Amol Rajan sits in...joined by Peter Crouch". BBC. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
^ Harp, Justin (24 September 2020). "The One Show suprises [sic] Mercury Prize 2020 winner on air in live TV reveal". Digital Spy. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
^ Hasan Suroor. "Amol Rajan makes Fleet Street history". The Hindu.
^ "My Education Blog". theauthorsxi.com.
^ Andy Bull "Rejoicing in the Twirlymen and the forgotten art of medium-paced spin", guardian.co.uk (blog), 17 May 2011
^ Rajan, Amol (9 September 2013). "Five good reasons why I am ready to be wed". London Evening Standard.
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1994 Ian Hargreaves
1995 Charles Wilson
1996 Andrew Marr
1998 Rosie Boycott / Andrew Marr
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2008 Roger Alton
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2013 Oliver Duff


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Tanni Grey-Thompson told there was 'no room' on train for her
Paralympian Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson has said she was stopped from boarding a train after a passenger told staff there wasn't space for her.
She said in a tweet: "Merry Christmas to the person on the train who just stopped me getting on. Told member of staff 'there's no room for her'."
"Everyone else waiting on the platform got on," added Baroness Grey-Thompson, a wheelchair user with 11 gold medals.
The athlete explained in further tweets that the passenger "wouldn't move".
Baroness Grey-Thompson, 48, said this put the member of train staff in an "awkward position".
She later returned to Twitter to say she would not be commenting further on her experience, and described her original tweet as "a moment in time".
But she did pay tribute to the "lovely" station staff.
News of the incident was greeted with shock by other social media users, including the columnist Grace Dent - while some questioned why the train staff had not intervened.
Baroness Grey-Thompson, one of Britain's most successful disabled athletes, was named a Life Peer in 2010 and also sits on the BBC Board.
Since retiring in 2007, the Cardiff-born athlete has become the patron of numerous charities, including Sportsaid Foundation and the Duke of Edinburgh Awards scheme, and was appointed Chancellor of Northumbria University.
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Earlier this year, Paralympian Anne Wafula-Strike said she was left "humiliated" after wetting herself on a rail journey because the disabled toilet was out of order.
She eventually received a financial settlement over the lack of accessible toilets on the three-hour journey.
The wheelchair racer said: "To my amazement the toilet was boarded up with a sign saying it was out of order."
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Mitch McConnell appoints Sen. Tim Scott to lead draft of police reform measures
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Senate Republicans are taking measures to address the topic of police reform in the aftermath of the Black Lives Matter riots in Washington and other American cities.
Protesters took to the street for nearly two weeks calling for justice for George Floyd, who died following a troubling incident in which a Minneapolis police officer was seen on camera pinning Floyd to the ground with a knee on his neck.
And while Floyd's death has been politicized by Democrats, who see it as the next "big thing" to take down President Donald Trump in November, the calls for police reform have been loud.
On the other hand, as Larry Elder noted, given the actions of the left, "Maybe it's the people, not the cops, who need 'better training.'"
Maybe it's the people, not the cops, who need "better training."#GeorgeFloydProtests pic.twitter.com/f3Gl8ghC2k
— Larry Elder (@larryelder) June 8, 2020
There is an argument to be made that, with an assist from the liberal media, people in this country have been led to believe that they can not only dispute the actions of cops if they disagree, but that they are justified in resisting — this being a byproduct of the Obama years. Biased reporting on incidents like the death of Michael Brown have not helped matters when it comes to a lack of respect for police.
Nonetheless, amid the calls for reform, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told reporters Tuesday, "I think it's important to have a response."
"None of us have had the experience of being an African American in this country and dealing with this discrimination, which persists here some 50 years after the 1964 civil rights bill and the 1965 civil rights bill," McConnell said, according to The Hill.
In reference to slavery, the GOP leader said the country still has a long way to go
"We're still wrestling with America's original sin," McConnell said. "We try to get better but every now and then it's perfectly clear we're a long way from the finish line."
The majority leader selected Sen. Tim Scott, the only black Republican in the Senate, to lead a working group of GOP senators in drafting police reform legislation, The Hill reported.
"I think the best way for the Senate Republicans to go forward on this is to listen to one of our own, who's had these experiences — he's had them since he's been in the United States Senate," McConnell said of Scott.
Scott is reportedly advocating for a nationalized database to document police misuse of force incidents and for the implementation of bias and intervention training.
Saying "time is of the essence," the senator expects to see something happen soon.
I think it's important for this nation to take a very powerful stand and position that says we're listening we're hearing, and we're reacting, we're responding in a positive, constructive manner," he said.
The Democrat-run House of Representative unveiled "sweeping" reforms this week in a partisan bill titled, "Justice in Policing Act."
The measure would ban any type of chokehold, as well as no-knock warrants in drug cases. It also seeks to end qualified immunity, which gives cops broad immunity from civil lawsuits.
With an eye on November and lots of uncertainty over how much support President Trump has among black voters, Democrats are certain to pass the legislation — at the same time, it's certain to have enough poison pills to ensure GOP resistance.
"We cannot settle for anything less than transformative structural change," Speaker Nancy Pelosi said. "The martyrdom of George Floyd gave the American experience a moment of national anguish as we grieve for the black Americans killed by police brutality today."
McConnell's push back to the Democrats' efforts to de-fund police suggests that any measure out of the Senate will not vilify police.
"The vast majority of men and women in law enforcement across our country are not evil, are not racist, do not wake up every morning looking for violence," he said from the Senate floor this week.


The public are being overwhelmed with a multitude of information and pressures regarding going green.
That's the verdict from Managing Director of the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership (LowCVP) Andy Eastlake, who at the organisation's annual conference, spoke to ELN about how this can be detrimental to the adoption of low carbon transport across the UK.
He said one challenge being faced is that for some consumers, too much is happening at once, such as them being pressured about increasing the fuel economy of cars, improving the efficiency of their home, adopting new transport systems, worrying about air pollution and dealing with changing forms of taxation.
Mr Eastlake suggested groups such as the LowCVP are working to bring the relevant information together, help consumers make sense of it and advise them accordingly, to create a situation where going low carbon is a logical and economical choice.


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Twenty-six participants from ten countries arrived to take part in the European celebration of the IOS's twenty-fifth birthday at Dušan Plaček's Quercetum near Podĕbrady in the Czech Republic. The main event ran from early afternoon on July 21st to the afternoon of the 23rd, but some members arrived as early as the 19th, and by the evening of the 20th there was a quorum sufficient to dine together in the event hotel, Hotel Golfi, where we lodged. After our night's stay we departed by bus the next morning to view the gardens within the grounds of Prague Castle, which offer superb and enticing views over the city. The next stop for the group was for lunch just outside the entrance to Průhonice Park, where excellent logistics by Dušan's team ensured that the remaining participants were able to join us to complete our number for our first "official" visit of the event in the Park itself.
ourselves on a terrace overlooking a steep-sided valley with a lake, beside which was a tree of enormous significance for Dušan and thus for oak collecting in the Czech Republic. Our mentor for the entire event, Ondřej Fous, described how this Quercus imbricaria showed Dušan that oaks have great diversity of leaf shape, and that a collection of oaks would be much more rewarding in terms of interest and variety than Fagus, Dušan's original preference. We wandered along paths through forested hills and riverside meadows in this delightful landscape park before returning to the hotel, where during dinner we enjoyed a showing of Dan Keiser's excellent collation of IOS events over the years, Quercophiles Abroad. After dinner, Allen Coombes, who had come all the way from Mexico to participate, made a presentation.
checkered history, having been inherited by the daughter of a Czech Prime Minister between the wars, before being used during the Communist era to contain a range of aerials designed to block the signal of Radio Free Europe. Dušan acquired it in 1998, and work commenced both on the house and on returning some sort of order to the garden, including the removal of overgrown and dead trees.
Winter cold limits the range of oaks that can be grown in the open ground: whilst mild winter lows are between -10 and -15 °C, -29 °C has been measured, and this spring there was frost in May, with two late frosts at a three week interval. However, a protected bed, a new "trench" area (to be covered in winter), and a large greenhouse extend the range of possibilities. Annual rainfall is a miserly 480 mm, but there is groundwater.
this expedition has been carried out in closely planted groups of the same species from the same location, and thinning will be carried out as necessary – an interesting idea and one that remains close to nature. Josef Souček, who also accompanied us during the event, had recently made an expedition to China (2013).
birthday celebration was more than generous.
Thus ended the "official" Oak Open Days, to be followed by two "unofficial" days. Next morning we were at the Průhonice Dendrological Garden, where a discussion about weeding prompted a quote I can't resist from Lloyd Kenyon: "How can you tell a weed from a rare plant? If you pull on them, the rare plant comes out easily." The Garden combines research into and preservation of plants suitable for the region with educational and environmental awareness programs.
We then returned to Prague, where we visited the Palace Gardens: a steep and splendidly decorated series of Italianate terraces on the hillside just below the Castle.
the, ahem, decorative possibilities of the remnants, and their re-juxtaposing became something of a tradition, culminating in the present unique and extraordinary arrangement dating from 1870. After this astonishing experience, we spent the rest of the day touring both the town and its cathedrals, all of which are justifiably UNESCO World Heritage listed.
It is impossible in such a short report to do justice to the kaleidoscope of experiences which awaited us in the Czech Republic, but much fuller coverage will appear in due course in International Oaks, the IOS Journal.
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Twenty-fifth Anniversary Banquet at Podĕbrady Castle. As the evening was drawing to a close, Dušan offered to all participants a gift box containing two Bohemian-crystal tumblers with the IOS logo engraved in the base (right).


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CISA's head was fired. How a leadership vacancy impacts the private sector
"I know that most, if not all, of my colleagues would currently pass on opportunities in the public sector, which is a shame," said RunSafe Security's Joe Saunders.
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The federal government is playing catch-up in cyber and its leaders know it. The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) succeeded DHS's National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) in 2018 to bolster cyber resilience across sectors.
Chris Krebs worked in the private sector before he joined DHS in 2017 and was confirmed by voice vote in the Senate in 2018 for CISA. He's left a mark on the agency as its first director overseeing two secure elections.
Cyberspace Solarium Commission Co-Chair Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, commended Krebs's efforts, alongside Director of the U.S. National Security Agency Paul Nakasone for work that resulted in a "boring" Election Day.
But in the days following the election, Krebs was criticized by President Donald Trump for assuring the integrity of the election amid the president's legal disputes. Trump tweeted Krebs's termination Tuesday night.
"Chris Krebs did his job and did it extremely well. The country is safer and our last two elections were secure from foreign interference because of his leadership," said Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wisconsin and co-chair of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, in an emailed statement to Cybersecurity Dive. Krebs worked with King and Gallagher to finalize the nonpartisan Commission's inaugural report this year.
"We want working at CISA to become so appealing to young professionals interested in national service that it competes with the NSA, the FBI, Google, and Facebook for top-level talent (and wins)."
Cyberspace Solarium Commission's 2020 report
While Krebs's termination won't change CISA's mission, it might have unintended consequences on how the federal government acquires cyber talent. Krebs's firing could discourage applicants from wanting to work in federal spaces.
"I would not want to be a cybersecurity staff person at any level in the federal government or in any state government where the governor behaves like the current president," said Dr. Donald F. Norris, professor emeritus of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. "Politicizing cyber is something I thought I'd never see."
Prior to working within DHS, Krebs was director for Cybersecurity Policy in Microsoft's U.S. Government Affairs. The federal government already struggles with attracting and retaining technology and cyber talent when the private sector offers larger salaries. The federal government is "not optimized to be quick or agile," while private sector companies are, according to the Cyberspace Solarium Commission's report.
The U.S. government has always had an issue luring talent away from the private sector. As it stands, "I know that most, if not all, of my colleagues would currently pass on opportunities in the public sector, which is a shame," said Joe Saunders, CEO of RunSafe Security.
The Cyberspace Solarium Commission estimates there are more than 33,000 unfilled cybersecurity positions in the U.S. government. CISA was supposed to help change that.
CISA is meant to be the "lead agency for federal cybersecurity and the private sector's preferred partner. We want working at CISA to become so appealing to young professionals interested in national service that it competes with the NSA, the FBI, Google, and Facebook for top-level talent (and wins)," the Cyberspace Solarium Commission's report says.
Because the pandemic opened up the possibility of remote work, it "opens up the aperture for our hiring significantly," CISA's Former Assistant Director for Cybersecurity Bryan Ware said during a virtual FedScoop's Security Transformation Summit this week, before he departed the agency. But government officials are already concerned about the ripple effect it might have on existing CISA and cybersecurity personnel.
"Chris was fired and Bryan forced out for telling the truth and doing their job," said Suzanne Spaulding, senior adviser at DHS, International Security Program and Cyberspace Solarium Commission member, in a statement. The termination might result in national security professionals "tailoring" assessments for individuals.
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Krebs wasn't the only high-profile name to depart the agency this week. Ware resigned Nov. 12 and Deputy Director Matthew Travis exited following Krebs's dismissal on Tuesday. Brandon Wales, executive director of CISA is taking over Krebs's leadership in an acting capacity. Wales, who is a civil servant, can't be fired in the same capacity as Krebs, according to CyberScoop.
Ware told CyberScoop Wales is stepping into a $2 billion startup "whose entire leadership team was just decapitated in the last week," but Wales is "the best guy for the job."
While there is always agency turnover when administrations change, cybersecurity "will not go away," said Jonathan Reiber, senior director for Cybersecurity Strategy and Policy at AttackIQ and former chief strategy officer for Cyber Policy in the Office of the U.S. Secretary of Defense under the Obama administration. The partnership between sectors is a "pre-eminent requirement for effective national cybersecurity."
But with CISA's leadership uncertain, the impact on the relationship the agency cultivated with the private sector is not yet clear.
Because the federal government relies on companies as buyers and sellers, it "shapes the playing field for cybersecurity [at] large," said Saunders. "The real power is in setting the agenda, standards, requirements and acquisition regulations."
If companies lose confidence in the standards promoted by agencies, it will ripple through other areas of collaboration, including information sharing, Saunders said.
Cross-sector reliance
Together, CISA and companies are creating layered cyber deterrence. The agency's existence is "almost exclusively for, and measured its success, by brokering a strong partnership with the private sector," said Jerry Ray, COO of SecureAge. Due to the work done under Krebs, it's unlikely those relationships will quickly deteriorate. "The reasons behind the firing of Krebs did nothing to tarnish the image of him or the agency."
One or two people do not make or break an agency and its progress, but depending on who takes over CISA's leadership before the Biden administration takes office in January, it will impact the strength of those relationships. "Any lack of integrity or loss of trust could turn off both current and potential partners," said Ray.
The market received a signal saying, "don't take this job and you can't trust us."
Joe Saunders
CEO of RunSafe Security
Because the private sector owns most of the U.S.'s critical infrastructure, the federal government relies on its participation in cyber deterrence. Outside of election security, CISA has made "equally important" but "less publicized" contributions in protecting U.S. critical infrastructure, King said in a statement Tuesday night. "We should be empowering Chris and his team to do more, not punishing them for doing their job."
During the pandemic, CISA increased its information-sharing structure with the pharmaceutical industry while it worked to develop COVID-19 vaccinations. CISA is currently deploying sensors in pharma networks for threat hunting, said Ware, during the FedScoop event. "We've really taken this pandemic as an opportunity to pilot out, learn from, and really work with industry to come alongside them and help protect them."
While Operation Warp Speed, the project designated to safely deliver a vaccine, will continue, there are some residual fears CISA's leadership turnover might have on information sharing. The market received a signal saying, "don't take this job and you can't trust us," Saunders said.
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Epilepsy is brain disorder caused by abnormal brain activity. Epilepsy is brain disorder in which patients have seizures, caused by abnormal brain activity. Traditionally, people think of a seizure as complete body shaking with unconsciousness. This is a type of seizure called a generalized tonic-clonic, or grand mal, seizure. There are other types of seizures though too. Simple partial seizures can just involve an abnormal taste, abnormal smell, focal hand shaking or abnormal sensation. Absence seizures may involve being awake, but somewhat unaware of one's surroundings or "daydreaming".
Some patients have seizures infrequently. Some patients have 20-30 seizures a day.
Some patients have a warning sign before the seizure, often called an aura. This can be an abnormal feeling in their stomach, fearful emotion, metallic taste, flashes of light, or abnormal smell. An aura may be a simple partial seizure itself.
Some patients have various changes following a seizure, which is often called the "postictal" period.
The initial treatment of seizures is medications. There are many antiepileptic medications, and many people control their seizures on them. In a famous 2000 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, nearly 50% of patients can be seizure-free with a single medication. This indicates that monotherapy response is a good prognostic factor. However, certain patients still have seizures despite many medications. A patient is often considered to have "refractory epilepsy" if they fail 2-3 single medications and one attempt at taking multiple medications. Refractory epilepsy usually takes about 9 years to develop.
When a patient has refractory epilepsy, they may be considered for seizure surgery. The type of seizure surgery depends on numerous factors. Some patients develop epilepsy because they have a tumor, birth defect, or collection of abnormal blood vessels in the brain. This is lesional epilepsy, because some sort of lesion is causing seizures. In these cases, surgery may be able to remove the causative factor and improve the seizures. It is important to remember that surgery cannot guarantee seizure freedom even in this scenario. Other people have an abnormality in the temporal lobe of their brain. This may require removing a portion of the temporal lobe.
Unfortunately, some patients do not have a specific focus ("non-focal epilepsy") and many different areas of their brain are causing the seizures. This can be a difficult thing to treat.
Vagal nerve stimulation (VNS) is a type of seizure surgery used to treat non-focal epilepsy. The main indication is "medically intractable complex partial epilepsy". It was previously noticed that some patients could stick their head in ice water to stop a seizure. While this was a primitive solution, it gave insight to the idea that vagus nerve stimulation could stop a seizure.
Vagal nerve stimulation involves placing an electrode on the vagus nerve, which is connected to a battery in the upper chest. It is thought that stimulation of the vagus nerve sends signals to the thalamus, which can stop the seizures. The left vagus nerve is used to avoid extra side effects of the surgery.
A small incision is made in the left neck, and the VNS device is carefully wrapped on the vagus nerve. The electrode is then passed under the skin to the upper chest where a battery pack is placed. The battery does require future surgery to replace the battery. Both the initial surgery and battery replacement surgery is often outpatient.
The VNS works in two main ways. The stimulator automatically sends an electric pulse roughly every 5 minutes to prevent a seizure from forming. However if a seizure still starts, the patient or a family member can place a magnet over the battery to send an extra electric pulse. Newer versions of the VNS can also sense a dramatic increased heart rate associated with seizures which also can instigate an electric pulse.
The most common side effects of VNS surgery are side effects of the stimulation. The vagus nerve has many functions in the body and connects to the brain, heart, voice box and belly organs, to name a few. Some patients may feel an abnormal feeling in their stomach. Some may slightly feel the stimulation sensation in the neck. Some may note a slight change in their voice if they are speaking when the device sends its electric pulse, or experience throat pain or coughing. Rarely, patients may develop an abnormal heartbeat. Usually these side effects resolve with time or after changing the stimulation parameters of the device.
Newer studies may show more seizure improvement over time. A VNS device is unlikely to completely stop seizures. The main goal is to diminish seizures and medication use. Historically, patients could expect about 20-30% improvement in seizures in the first 3-6 months, which could increase up to 40-50% improvement after a few years. Newer studies may show more seizure improvement over time. There may be up to 75% reduction is seizure frequency at 10 years. Unfortunately, there is no way to predict a success rate prior to surgery.
It should also be noted what we mean by seizure improvement. Epilepsy outcome is often classified on a scale. Engel class I outcome is often thought to be complete seizure freedom or rare non-disabling seizures. Engel class II outcome is often thought to be >90% seizure frequency reduction. Engel class III outcome is ~50-90% reduction. Engel class IV is less than 50% reduction. Engel class V is no reduction. Engel class I is rarely achieved.
A VNS device is compatible with brain MRIs, however recipients cannot undergo body MRIs following the procedure.
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