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Bait and Switch: Climate Alarmists have "Religious Conversion" to pro-nuclear
A New Generation of Nuclear Reactors, the logical "Solution" for the Climate Scare
Stephen Tindale
The "Switchers" and assorted prominent pro-nuclear climate activists:
George Monbiot – columnist with The Guardian newspaper in the UK, and author of Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning. "Atomic energy has just been subjected to one of the harshest of possible tests, and the impact on people and the planet has been small. The crisis at Fukushima has converted me to the cause of nuclear power."
Tom Wigley – of Climate-Gate infamy, he's a senior scientist in the Climate and Global Dynamics Division of the University Corporation of Atmospheric Research. "We need nuclear power to solve this problem … people don't realise just how bad climate change is."
James Hansen – author of Storms of My Grandchildren.
Barry W Brook – is the Director of Climate Science at Adelaide University, and Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Change, is on the board of the Science Council for Global Initiatives and the International Awards Committee of the Global Energy Prize.
Gwyneth Cravens – novelist and journalist, author of Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy.
Ted Nordhaus – Chairman of the Breakthrough Institute, political strategist and author of Break Through, Why We Can't Leave Saving The Planet To Environmentalists.
Mark Lynas – author of The God Species: How the Planet Can Survive the Age of Humans, also a frequent speaker around the world on climate change science and policy. "Let me be very clear. Without nuclear, the battle against global warming is as good as lost."
Tom Blees – author of Prescription for the Planet (the seemingly "intractable" problem of nuclear waste is "nothing of the kind") has "probably done more than anybody to move people to the cause of nuclear power." Tom also heads the Science Council for Global Initiatives.
Professor Gerry Thomas – of the Imperial College, London, "I am very pro-nuclear as I realise that we have an unwarranted fear of radiation."
James Lovelock – celebrated father of the Gaia principle.
Fred Pearce – an environment writer with The Guardian newspaper in the UK, and author of The Last Generation: How nature will take her revenge for climate change.
Stewart Brand – a prominent pro-nuclear "environmentalist" and author of Whole Earth Discipline: Why dense cities, nuclear power, transgenic crops, restored wildlands and geoengineering are necessary.
Ken Caldiera – with the Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution, recently co-authored an open letter to the environmental movement urging them to bring their support behind the development of new nuclear power.
Kerry Emmanuel – with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is known for his work on attribution of climate change to hurricane events.
Rachel Pritzker – is the founder and president of the Pritzker Innovation Fund. Rachel currently chairs the advisory board of the Breakthrough Institute.
Suzanne Hobbs-Baker – the brain behind Pop Atomic Studios, an organisation which uses the power of visual and liberal arts to "enrich" the public discussion on atomic energy.
Ed Davey – UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, "When I have listened to the arguments of pro-nuclear Liberal Democrats in recent years, the one argument I found increasingly difficult to answer is the climate-change argument, because climate change poses a real and massive danger to our planet. Not keeping a genuinely low-carbon source of electricity as an option looks reckless when we don't know the future."
November 14, 2014 Posted by aletho | Corruption, Deception, Environmentalism, Nuclear Power, Science and Pseudo-Science, Timeless or most popular, Video	| Global warming | 5 Comments
Spain's Unfinished Revolution and Its Minorities
By Dani Marinova | Dissident Voice | November 13, 2014
Spain's deeply rooted distrust of popular participation in democratic processes is reminiscent of the swift, top-down transition some forty years ago. As such, it is a painful reminder of Spain's unfinished revolution.
Spain's peaceful transition to democracy has been extolled as a model to emulate for democratizing nations across the globe. Following the death of General Franco in 1975, King Juan Carlos transformed the authoritarian regime into a European democracy, and did so without shedding a drop of blood. And yet Spanish democracy nowadays is not without its critics. The Catalan movement for independence unveils just what's amiss in Spain's celebrated democratic transition.
In Berlin last week, constitutional scholar Bruce Ackerman singled out the Spanish transition to democracy as one lacking in authenticity and, ultimately, in legitimacy. The transition was negotiated between elites behind closed doors. Franco's heir, King Juan Carlos, essentially preempted a revolt by co-opting opposition leaders Adolfo Suarez and Santiago Carrillo. A new constitution was drafted and passed through a popular referendum in 1978. Unlike the constitutional referenda in Spain's northern neighbor France, however, the new law of the land was not subject to political debate. The public was never fully mobilized.
This peaceful yet 'unauthentic' transition to democracy planted the seeds for grievances from Spain's regional minorities. In its cultural and linguistic diversity, Spain resembles modern-day Switzerland and Belgium — a fact that Catalans are quick to point out. Yet this heterogeneity is not reflected in the Spanish constitution. The law of 1978 granted minorities broader powers than were in place, including a regional government, a state police force and recognition of minority languages. As has become clear in the decades to follow, and again in recent months, the same constitution also impedes minorities' right to self-determination.
Spain's brisk constitutional process did not do justice to its regional minorities. Ethnically diverse democracies often thrive on complex power-sharing arrangements. A number of European countries, including Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland and, more recently, Bosnia, can attest to this. History has taught us that in ethnically diverse states, identity ought to take center stage when constitutions are drafted, or significant portions of the population will feel unrepresented and may eventually wish to jump ship, or worse.
The tense standoff between Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and the president of Catalunya's regional government Artur Mas has revealed Spain's unbudging resistance to a democratic resolution of Catalans' grievances. Madrid blocked not only the official referendum but also an unofficial consultation on Catalan independence through Spain's Constitutional Court. (And it takes any opportunity to block social and economic legislation passed by the Catalan government.) Rajoy has refused to negotiate with the Catalan region and has called the recent referendum – which the region held in defiance of the Court's ruling – an act of political propaganda.
Spain's intransigence is but a symptom of a deeper problem. Recall the brutal repression of high school students and teachers demonstrating in Valencia three years ago. The use of pain-inducing sound cannons, batons and rubber bullets against peaceful protesters is common practice in Spain. A bill introduced by the conservative Partido Popular in 2013 proposes to fine protesters up to 30.000€ for civil disobedience, videotaping the police or for simply gathering in front of parliament. Excessive use of force against demonstrators and repressive laws that restrict freedom of expression and assembly ignited a public statement by Amnesty International in 2011 (and again in 2013 and 2014). Spain's deeply rooted distrust of popular participation in democratic processes is reminiscent of the swift, top-down transition some forty years ago. As such, it is a painful reminder of Spain's unfinished revolution.
While Spain's elite — and particularly its conservative Partido Popular under Aznar and Rajoy — continues to practice politics old style, a new generation of politically active citizens gives reasons for hope. The peaceful and well-organized referendum in Catalonia last week is the culmination of a years-long grassroots movement, on which Artur Mas piggybacked two years ago. The rise of Podemos in the recent European elections is yet another example of grassroots at work. The far-left party rose not out of the Socialists but out of the indignados movement which itself gave rise to Occupy and numerous other social movements across the globe. A new generation of Spanish citizens is demanding inclusion in its state's governance.
Modern-day Spain made its first steps to democracy thanks to one leader's political will. Franco's heir invited outsider elites to take part in shaping Spain's future in 1975. It is high time that Spain extend decision-making privileges once again — this time to its citizens. Spanish citizens, Catalans included, should determine their own future — be that a new constitutional arrangement or the breakup of the Spanish monarchy.
Dani Marinova does research on political representation and democratization at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. In 2011-2012 she was a visiting researcher at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and attended several peaceful protests in Catalonia.
November 14, 2014 Posted by aletho | Civil Liberties, Timeless or most popular	| Artur Mas, Catalunya, Mariano Rajoy, Spain | 1 Comment
South Africa Marikana Massacre Defense Blames Victims
teleSUR | November 13, 2014
The defense team of the South African police who dispersed a demonstration by killing 34 miners on August 16, 2012, said on Thursday that the surviving demonstrators should be charged with treason.
The Marikana Massacre happened after the Lonmin mine workers started a strike to demand better wages.
Prior to the massacre, two police were killed by the miners during clashes outside the Lonmin compound; however, the legal representatives of the miners union asserts that the police were killed by one or two workers and that not everybody was violent or even armed at the time.
Ishmael Semenya, who is representing the South African Police Service (SAPS), says that the miners were planning to attack the police, a state organ, so they should be charged with treason.
However, lawyer Dali Mpofu, who represents the miners, said that the tension was caused by the police, who failed to advise the demonstrators that they were planning to disperse the rally.
Police assert that the miners, some of whom were armed with spears and sticks, tried to kill them; however, the union legal advisers assert that the police reactions were a result of the anger of their two colleagues' death.
Mpofu also said that the police acted on political considerations and rushed to end the strike, fearing Julius Malema, a controversial politician who is popular among the poorer sectors of the population, could interfere and worsen the situation.
Malema said he was with the workers and urged them to maintain their strike. He has served in different public positions with the African National Congress party administration, but he was expelled from the party on 2012 over a hate speech accusation.
Now he is commander-in-chief of his new party, the Economic Freedom Fighters.
Both sides' arguments were submitted this week, marking the final phase of the investigation being carried out by the Farlam Commission of Inquiry, which was ordered by President Jacob Zuma.
November 14, 2014 Posted by aletho | Solidarity and Activism, Subjugation - Torture	| Africa, South Africa | 1 Comment
Jerusalem child shot by Israeli forces loses eyesight
Ma'an – 14/11/2014
JERUSALEM – An 11-year-old Palestinian child shot in the face by a sponge bullet during clashes in al-Issawiya on Thursday has been left blind in one eye, a local official said.
Member of a local neighborhood committee, Muhammad Abu al-Hummus, told Ma'an that Saleh Samer Attiyeh Mahmoud, 11, was shot in the face at close range by Israeli forces firing sponge bullets in al-Issawiya during clashes.
He was hit directly between the eyes, causing severe bleeding to his nose and the loss of sight in his left eye. The vision in his right eye is also severely damaged.
Villagers in the East Jerusalem neighborhood were protesting the closure of three out of four entrances to the village by Israeli forces when the incident took place.
Sponge rounds are made from high-density plastic with a foam-rubber head, and are fired from grenade launchers.
Israeli police have been using them in Israel and occupied East Jerusalem since the use of rubber-coated metal bullets was prohibited, but protocol explicitly prohibits firing them at the upper body.
November 14, 2014 Posted by aletho | Ethnic Cleansing, Racism, Zionism, Subjugation - Torture	| Human rights, Israel, Jerusalem, Zionism | Leave a comment
Israel Has Banned Renowned Doctor and Human Rights Activist Mads Gilbert from Entering Gaza for Life
By Ben Norton | Dissident Voice | November 14, 2014
Israel has banned Norwegian doctor and human rights activist Mads Gilbert from entering Gaza for life.
Gilbert, a professor at the University Hospital of North Norway, where he has worked since 1976, earned international renown for his philanthropic work in late 2008, during Israel's Operation Cast Lead, an attack that, according to Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem, killed roughly 1,400 Gazans, including almost 800 civilians, 350 of whom were children.
The aid worker, along with fellow Norwegian doctor Erik Fosse, decided to volunteer in Gaza as soon as he heard that bombing had started, on 27 December 2008. Thanks to diplomatic and economic support (in the sum of $1 million dollar of emergency funding from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs), the two physicians managed to arrive in the strip by 30 December.
The Israeli government prevented all international press from entering Gaza during Cast Lead (a documentary, The War Around Us, was made about the only two foreign reporters in the strip at the time), in what Gilbert called Israel's insidious "PR plan." The doctor, as one of the only international aid workers in Gaza, thus devoted considerable time to speaking with local Palestinian news outlets, some of whom were reporting on behalf of foreign networks including BBC, CNN, ABC, and Al Jazeera.
BBC aired an interview with Gilbert, conducted in the hospital. The questions asked, and the answers garnered, were eerily similar to those he would give just five years later, during Operation Protective Edge. The interviewer began asking him to respond to Israel's claims that it was not targeting civilians, that it was only attacking Hamas militants. Gilbert called the claim "an absolutely stupid statement" and explained that, among the hundreds of patients he had seen at that point, only two had been fighters. The "large majority" were women, children, and men civilians. "These numbers are contradictory to everything Israel says," he reported.
Gilbert drew attention to the fact that the overflowing hospital did not have enough supplies to treat all of its patients, and censured the international community for doing nothing to assist them. Israel would not let in foreign doctors, and yet Palestinians were "dying waiting for surgery." "This is a complete disaster," he remarked, calling it "the worst man-made disaster" he could think of. "There are injuries you just don't want to see in this world."
Operation Protective Edge
In 2008 and 2009, Gilbert treated Palestinians who had been grievously wounded by Israel's use of experimental and illegal chemical weapons, including white phosphorous, dense inert metal explosives (DIME) munitions, and flechette shells. In July 2014, in the midst of Israel's most recent attack on Gaza, Gilbert spoke with Electronic Intifada, revealing that he saw indications of renewed use of DIME weapons and flechettes.
While volunteering in Shifa hospital, Gaza's principal medical facility, Gilbert penned an open letter, lamenting the unspeakable horrors the Israeli military was instigating.
[Israel's] "ground invasion" of Gaza resulted in scores and carloads with maimed, torn apart, bleeding, shivering, dying… All sorts of injured Palestinians, all ages, all civilians, all innocent.
The heroes in the ambulances and in all of Gaza's hospitals are working 12 to 24‑hour shifts, grey from fatigue and inhuman workloads (without payment in Shifa for the last four months). They care, triage, try to understand the incomprehensible chaos of bodies, sizes, limbs, walking, not walking, breathing, not breathing, bleeding, not bleeding humans. Humans!
Ashy grey faces – Oh no! not one more load of tens of maimed and bleeding. We still have lakes of blood on the floor in the emergency room, piles of dripping, blood-soaked bandages to clear out – oh – the cleaners, everywhere, swiftly shovelling the blood and discarded tissues, hair, clothes, cannulas – the leftovers from death – all taken away… to be prepared again, to be repeated all over.
More than 100 cases came to Shifa in the last 24 hours. Enough for a large well-trained hospital with everything, but here – almost nothing: electricity, water, disposables, drugs, operating-room tables, instruments, monitors – all rusted and as if taken from museums of yesterday's hospitals. But they do not complain, these heroes.
Now, once more treated like animals by "the most moral army in the world."
The doctor directed one heart-wrenching passage to President Obama, writing "Mr Obama – do you have a heart? I invite you – spend one night – just one night – with us in Shifa. I am convinced, 100 per cent, it would change history. Nobody with a heart and power could ever walk away from a night in Shifa without being determined to end the slaughter of the Palestinian people."
Israel later attacked Shifa hospital. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) "strongly condemn[ed]" the incursion, saying it "demonstrate[d] how civilians in Gaza have nowhere safe to go." MSF director Marie-Noëlle Rodrigue stated, in an official statement, "When the Israeli army orders civilians to evacuate their houses and their neighborhoods, where is there for them to go? Gazans have no freedom of movement and cannot take refuge outside Gaza. They are effectively trapped." Shifa was one of the over 10 medical facilities Israel bombed in its 50-day offensive.
Human Rights Work
In 2000, Gilbert made headlines for saving the life of a skier who had been trapped in sub-zero water. She had been pronounced clinically dead, with a body temperature of 57 °F, but Gilbert managed to revive her. For his service, Gilbert was awarded the Northern Norwegian of the Year award.
Before Operation Protective Edge commenced in early July 2014, Gilbert toured medical and health facilities and individual homes in Gaza, researching for a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) report on the dire state of the strip's health sector. He wrote of "overstretched" health facilities, widespread physical and psychological trauma, "a deep financial crisis," a lack of needed medical supplies, and a "severe energy crisis." He also noted the "devastating results of the blockade imposed by the Government of Israel," with rampant poverty, a 38.5% unemployment rate, food insecurity in at least 57% of households, and inadequate access to clean water. All of these already extreme ills were only exacerbated by the July-August Israeli assault on Gaza, an onslaught that left roughly 2,200 Palestinians dead, including over 1,500 civilians, more than 500 of whom were children.
Gilbert is not the only one Israel has recently prevented from entering Gaza. In August, just after the end of its military assault, Israel refused to allow Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, the world's leading human rights organizations, from entering the strip, impeding them from conducting war crimes investigations. The organizations had been requesting access for over a month, before Israel had even begun its ground invasion of Gaza, yet were continuously prevented from doing so, Israeli journalist Amira Hass reported in Haaretz, "using various bureaucratic excuses."
Israel has banned Human Right Watch investigators from entering Gaza since 2006; Amnesty International has been refused access since 2012. Dr. Mads Gilbert is the latest esteemed persona non grata to be added to this growing list.
Solidarity, Not Pity
Other aid workers and medical professionals have faced even worse consequences for volunteering to help Palestinians. In August, Israeli occupation forces killed a social worker. In the same month, as the Israeli military engaged in a campaign to target and openly murder Palestinian civilians who spoke Hebrew, Israeli forces assassinated volunteers working with the Palestine Red Crescent, a non-profit humanitarian organization, part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
A common myth suggests that Israel ended its occupation of Gaza with its 2005 disengagement. The state's ability to ban, and even kill, internationally recognized human rights organizations and doctors—not to mention food, construction equipment, and medical supplies—from entering Palestinian territory, however, demonstrates that Gaza is by no means autonomous. Israel's siege of the strip is clearly a continuation of its 47-year-long illegal military occupation.
As legal scholar Noura Erakat explains
Despite removing 8,000 settlers and the military infrastructure that protected their illegal presence, Israel maintained effective control of the Gaza Strip and thus remains the occupying power as defined by Article 47 of the Hague Regulations. To date, Israel maintains control of the territory's air space, territorial waters, electromagnetic sphere, population registry and the movement of all goods and people.
Palestinians have yet to experience a day of self-governance. Israel immediately imposed a siege upon the Gaza Strip when Hamas won parliamentary elections in January 2006 and tightened it severely when Hamas routed Fatah in June 2007. The siege has created a "humanitarian catastrophe" in the Gaza Strip. Inhabitants will not be able to access clean water, electricity or tend to even the most urgent medical needs. The World Health Organization explains that the Gaza Strip will be unlivable by 2020. Not only did Israel not end its occupation, it has created a situation in which Palestinians cannot survive in the long-term.
In his July interview with Electronic Intifada, Gilbert made it clear that his work as a medical professional cannot be done—the Palestinian people cannot live healthy, yet alone free, lives—while Israel continues its illegal siege and occupation. "As a doctor, my prescription is very clear. Number one, stop the bombing, and that means stop Israel from bombing civilians and indiscriminately hitting families. Number two, lift the siege. And number three, find a political solution," he stated.
In a late October discussion with the Daily Targum, Gilbert encouraged Americans to do what they can to speak out against Israel's illegal occupation and blockade of the Palestinian territories, and to pressure their government to stop its indefatigable support for Israeli crimes.
At present, the US provides Israel with over 3.1$ billion of military aid per year. In the past 52 years, over $100 billion US tax dollars have been given to the country in military aid alone.
"You are the change-makers," Gilbert told American readers. "The key to the change when it comes to the occupation of Palestine lies in the United States." "Solidarity, not pity," he said, is the solution.
Ben Norton is an activist, artist, and freelance writer. He can be found on Twitter at @HeartsMindsEars.
November 14, 2014 Posted by aletho | Ethnic Cleansing, Racism, Zionism, Illegal Occupation, Subjugation - Torture, War Crimes	| Gaza, Human rights, Israel, Palestine, Zionism | 3 Comments
Palestinian activists cross separation wall in protest action
RAMALLAH – Dozens of Palestinian activists crossed Israel's separation wall on Friday near Qalandia checkpoint as part of a series of non-violent protest actions to demonstrate solidarity with Jerusalem.
Activists used makeshift ramparts, ladders and cut through barbed wire to climb over the separation wall near Qalandia military checkpoint, which is at least six-eight meters in height.
The action was part of a campaign entitled #On2Jerusalem that was organized by the Popular Resistance Committees.
Coordinator of the popular committees, Salah Khawaja, said they attempted to enter Jerusalem but were prevented from doing so by Israeli forces, who deployed heavily in the area.
Israeli forces used live fire, tear gas canisters, stun grenades and rubber-coated steel bullets to disperse the march.
Dozens of Palestinian activists also gathered near the village of Hizma carrying Palestinian flags and shouting slogans in support of Jerusalem.
Several youths were injured as Israeli forces opened fire at them to prevent them crossing the checkpoint. The activists managed to close the road, with Israeli forces preventing settlers from traveling to the area.
Dozens of activists also demonstrated by the entrance to Maale Adumim settlement waving Palestinian flags.
"They attempted to detain us for carrying Palestinian flags," Khawaja said. "What we did today was to emphasize that we do not have a choice but popular resistance and clashing with Israel is a part of our fight to stop Israeli crimes against Palestinians"
An Israeli army spokeswoman said there was an "attempt" to cross the wall, without providing further details.
November 14, 2014 Posted by aletho | Ethnic Cleansing, Racism, Zionism, Solidarity and Activism	| Jerusalem, Palestine, West Bank, Zionism | Leave a comment
Economic isolation breach of international law: Putin
Top 5 takeaways from Putin ahead of G20
RT | November 14, 2014
Russian President Vladimir Putin (RIA Novosti/Mikhail Klementiev)
Vladimir Putin says the G20 must address global imbalances together, and economic isolation, especially in the case of sanctions, which not only leads nowhere but is a crude violation of international economic law.
Here are the Russian president's top takeaways ahead of the G20 summit being held in Brisbane, Australia from November 14-15.
G20 great for ground work, but decisions often just hot air
Putin believes the G20 is still a good and relevant platform for world leaders, however, decisions at the summit are often nothing but words. Decisions made there are only carried out when they are in line with the interests of certain global players, like the US.
Decisions are neglected if they don't fit the agenda of an individual power, Putin told TASS ahead of the summit.
An example is when US Congress blocked the IMF quota, which was intended to enhance the role of developing economies and redistribute quotes. That move was counterproductive, Putin said.
"The very fact that US Congress has refused to pass this law indicates that it is the United States that drops out of the general context of resolving the problems facing the international community," the president said.
"Everyone must understand that the global economy and finance these days are exceptionally dependent on each other," Putin said.
US sanctions violate the very system they created
Sanctions levied against Russia are against the norms of international trade and the core principles of the G20, as they can only be introduced via the United Nations, Putin said.
Sanctions are "against WTO principles and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the GATT. The United States itself created that organization at a certain point. Now it is crudely violating its principles," Putin explained
Interconnected economy: What hurts us hurts you
Sanctions against Russia have targeted the finance, energy and weaponry sectors of the economy. Russia's retaliatory sanctions to ban agricultural imports are having a colossal ripple effect on jobs, social sectors, and growth.
This is especially pertinent to Europe, which is feeling the squeeze of the agricultural export ban to Russia, one its biggest markets.
Germany's economic growth is an example of financial blowback from sanctions with Russia.
US-led trade pacts will create global imbalance
Putin believes that the creation of the 2 US-led trade pacts – one Transatlantic and the other Transpacific – will only create more global imbalance. The US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) doesn't include China or Russia.
"Of course, we want to get rid of such imbalances, we want to work together, but this can be achieved only through joint efforts," Putin said.
New economic associations should complement existing institutions
All new emerging economic blocks like BRICS and the so-called 'new G7', which in addition to Brazil, Russia, India and China also includes Indonesia, Turkey and Mexico, should come as something complementary to the existing groups, Putin said.
According to purchasing power parity (PPP) BRICS nations have a combined GDP $37.4 trillion, more than the G7's at $34.7 trillion, Putin said. However, its economic girth doesn't give it the right to start running its own policy.
"And if we go and say, 'No, thank you, we are going to do this and that here on our own, and you can do it the way you want it,' this will only add to the imbalances," Putin warned.
The Russian president also said that all regional integrations like the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union with Belarus and Kazakhstan shouldn't isolate, but complement, global institutions.
Full speech: Putin on G20: Russia sanctions contradict club principles
November 14, 2014 Posted by aletho | Economics	| Economy, G20, Putin, Russia, TPP, Trans-Pacific Partnership, United States, USA | 2 Comments


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PITTSBURGH — Nebraska turned in a strong performance in Friday night's session at the NCAA championships, with four Huskers became All-Americans.
Senior Tyler Berger led the way, moving into Saturday night's championship match at 157 pounds. Berger recorded takedowns in the first and second periods in downing Iowa's Kaleb Young 5-3 in the semis.
Berger, now is a three-time All-American, is the first Husker since TJ Dudley in 2016 to reach the final. Berger, who improved to 28-3 this season, will face defending champion Jason Nolf of Penn State. Nolf has defeated Berger twice this season, including in the Big Ten meet's final two weeks ago.
Also earning All-America status for the Huskers were Isaiah White at 165, freshman Mikey Labriola at 174 and 141-pound CJ Red, who became a two-time All-American. Taylor Venz, an All-American last year, fell one win short of that status.
Nebraska heads into the final day seventh in the team standings with 51 points. Penn State leads with 120.5, 32 more than Ohio State. Iowa is fourth with 68 points.
Iowa's Spencer Lee, who won the 125-pound weight class last year, is back in the final. He is the Hawkeyes' lone finalist.


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Q: Using Replace function in Kotlin I am try to replace the cyrlic characters by using Latin
The following codes works
val kztext83: String = kztext82.replace('ə','ä')

but the actual translation is not ä , it is a'
Since a' is two character i am getting errror for
val kztext83: String = kztext82.replace('ə','a'')

Error is  - too many character in character literal ?
I tried many ways including creating string , not fixing the issues

A: Instead of replacing chars, try using Strings:
val kztext83: String = kztext82.replace("ə","a'")

Which means replacing the double quotes with single.
You can't have two chars in a single char ('a' is a char object) meaning 'a\'' is not valid.

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Q: Combine Two Queries (Rank and Cumulative) used in MS Access I have two queries:

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*Will sum daily readings on a time zero basis (normalized or ranked) - takes time out of the equation.

*Will CUM readings through time, a running total.

I'd like to combine the two so that I can have a cumulative output of normalized/time-zero/ranked data.
Here is the time zero query (1):
SELECT Sum([_Group_Norm_Query].Sales) AS SumOfSales
FROM (SELECT
tblTempGroupNorm.Prop_KEY,
tblTempGroupNorm.ReadingDate,
tblTempGroupNorm.Sales,
(SELECT COUNT(Table1A.ReadingDate) FROM tblTempGroupNorm AS Table1A
 WHERE Table1A.ReadingDate<=tblTempGroupNorm.ReadingDate
 AND Table1A.Prop_KEY = tblTempGroupNorm.Prop_KEY) AS TimeDay
FROM
tblProperties INNER JOIN tblTempGroupNorm ON tblProperties.WH_IDX = tblTempGroupNorm.Prop_KEY
WHERE (((tblProperties.GROUP)='MY GROUP') AND ((tblProperties.AREA)='MY AREA')) ORDER BY
tblTempGroupNorm.ReadingDate) AS [_Group_Norm_Query]
GROUP BY[_Group_Norm_Query].TimeDay;

And here is the running total query (2):
SELECT Sum(a2.Sales) AS SumOfSales
FROM tblTempGroupNorm AS a1 INNER JOIN (tblTempGroupNorm AS a2 INNER JOIN tblProperties ON a2.Prop_KEY = tblProperties.WH_IDX) ON a1.Prop_KEY = tblProperties.WH_IDX
WHERE (((a2.ReadingDate)<=[a1].[ReadingDate]) AND (([tblProperties].[GROUP])='MY GROUP') AND (([tblProperties].[AREA])='MY AREA'))
GROUP BY a1.ReadingDate
ORDER BY a1.ReadingDate;

Any thoughts on combining the two? I'm avoiding the use of DSUM() in the running total, and cannot use it in the final combined query either. Thanks
Edit: Following feedback, here is my attempt to combine them. I get an error:

query does not include specified expression 'COUNT(a2.ReadingDate) = [_Group_Norm_Query].TimeDay as part of an aggregate function.

If I remove the very last line (GOUP BY [_Group_Norm_Query].TimeDay; The error is suppressed, but the query never completes - it locks up.
SELECT Sum([_Group_Norm_Query].Sales) AS SumOfSales, Sum(RunTotal.SumOfSales) AS MY_RUNNING_TOTAL

SELECT Sum(a2.Sales) AS SumOfSales
FROM tblTempGroupNorm AS a1 INNER JOIN (tblTempGroupNorm AS a2 INNER JOIN tblProperties ON a2.Prop_KEY = tblProperties.WH_IDX) ON a1.Prop_KEY = tblProperties.WH_IDX
WHERE (((a2.ReadingDate)<=[a1].[ReadingDate]) AND (([tblProperties].[GROUP])='MY GROUP') AND (([tblProperties].[AREA])='MY AREA'))
GROUP BY a1.ReadingDate
HAVING COUNT(a2.ReadingDate) = [_Group_Norm_Query].TimeDay
ORDER BY a1.ReadingDate) AS RunTotal

FROM (SELECT
tblTempGroupNorm.Prop_KEY,
tblTempGroupNorm.ReadingDate,
tblTempGroupNorm.Sales,
    (SELECT COUNT(Table1A.ReadingDate) FROM tblTempGroupNorm AS Table1A
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Gaming Workers provide gaming services within casinos and other gambling establishments.
A Certificate II or III, or at least 1 year of relevant experience, is usually needed to work in this job. Around one in four workers have Year 12 as their highest education level. Sometimes experience or on-the-job training is needed in addition to a qualification. Additional tickets may also be required.
from 4,000 in 2018 to 3,800 by 2023.
Location: Gaming Workers work in many regions of Australia. Many work in Western Australia.
Industries: Most work in the Arts and Recreation Services industry.
Earnings: Full-time workers earn around $1,188 per week (similar to the all jobs average of $1,230). Earnings tend to be lower when starting out and higher as experience grows.
Age: The average age is 31 years (compared to the all jobs average of 40 years). Many workers are under 25 years of age (23.6%).
Gender: 35% of workers are female (compared to the all jobs average of 46.7%).
Around one in four workers have Year 12 as their highest education level. Sometimes experience or on-the-job training is needed in addition to a qualification. Additional tickets may also be required.
Employers look for Gaming Workers who have good people skills, provide good customer service and are well presented.
The importance ratings on this page are derived from the US Department of Labor O*NET Database Version 21.2, 39-1011.00 - Gaming Supervisors.


The aim of the Directory of Human Rights Organisations is to include all human rights organisations in South Africa that endeavour to protect and promote human rights, from civil and political rights, economic rights, religious to cultural rights and environmental rights. The directory provides individuals and groups with information on whom to contact when they need legal advice and when they feel their rights have been violated. It will also be of use to human rights researchers when they need information for their research projects.
Chris Sibanyoni, was until recently a member of the Democracy and Governance Research Group of the Human Sciences Research Council.
Based on case studies from a number of South African municipalities, this groundbreaking publication examines cost recovery and its implications for service delivery in South Africa. This study looks at how cost recovery affects access to services, affordability and privatisation. Alternatives to cost recovery are also explored.


"The Balmberg is a family-friendly destination. It offers three ski lifts, two restaurants, ski hire, a ski school and plenty of space to enjoy on a wonderful, sunny winter's day. It is also suitable for ambitious skiers or snowboarders. Easy to reach by car or public transport in a short time. I think it is an ideal destination, even for last-minute holidaymakers. It is always an experience and so close by. Incidentally, there is also night skiing – the ultimate in after-hours fun!"
Facilities: three ski lifts and one airboard slope.
Lighting: the pistes are floodlit from Tuesday to Friday, 7.30 - 10 p.m.
Access: take the PostBus from Solothurn station to "Balmberg".
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Tower of London Welcomes Baby Ravens for the First Time in 30 Years
The four chicks eat at least once every two hours, feasting on a diet of quail, mice and rats
Associate Editor, History
All four chicks are growing quickly, quadrupling in size from around 8 centimeters tall at birth to more than 30 centimeters last week Courtesy of Ravenmaster Chris Skaife
According to popular lore, the fates of both the Tower of London and the wider British kingdom are intrinsically linked with the presence of at least six ravens in the palatial, 1,000-year-old fortress. As a royal decree reportedly issued by 17th-century King Charles II warned, if the birds ever flee their London home, "the Tower itself will crumble to dust and a great harm will befall the kingdom."
Luckily, there appears to be little chance of this dystopian vision becoming reality anytime soon: The Tower maintains a population of at least seven ravens (the corvid equivalent of "heir plus a spare"), and last week, officials announced the birth of four healthy chicks—the first hatched at the London stronghold since 1989, when the Tower welcomed a baby named Ronald Raven.
The Telegraph's Jack Hardy notes that Tower staffers installed a new aviary last year in response to concerns over the declining number of legal raven breeders in the United Kingdom. Typically, Tower ravens are bred elsewhere and then brought to London. Of the seven corvids currently housed in the Tower, five were born in Somerset, one was born in Surrey, and one was born in South Wales.
"We decided that it would be a really good idea to see if we could actually breed ravens ourselves at the Tower of London to secure our future," Tower Ravenmaster Chris Skaife explains in a video posted on Twitter.
Say hello to our new baby ravens at the Tower of London These four little chicks are the first to be born here in 30 years. Legend tells us that should the ravens ever leave, the Tower will fall. Now, our future is secured and Chris Skaife @ravenmaster1 is one happy Dad! pic.twitter.com/BirBqM1Oiw
— The Tower of London (@TowerOfLondon) May 17, 2019
Huginn and Muninn, the newborn chicks' parents, arrived at the Tower aviary toward the end of 2018 but were not expected to be settled in time for the 2019 mating season. Skaife, however, started to suspect the pair had successfully bred after spotting a huge nest that appeared suddenly overnight. On April 23, St. George's Day, he saw the birds bringing food to the nest, and a few weeks later, he was finally able to approach and assess the scene for himself.
According to a statement, the chicks eat at least once every two hours, feasting on a diet of quail, mice and rats procured by Skaife, prepared by their father Huginn, and passed along by their mother Muninn. All four are growing quickly, quadrupling in size from around 8 centimeters tall at birth to more than 30 centimeters last week. Although the baby ravens are beginning to develop their species' characteristic black plumage, it will take another year or so for their beaks to become fully black. Come late summer, one of the four chicks, named George or Georgina in a nod to the day on which they hatched, will permanently join the seven ravens (not counting Huginn, Muninn and the newborns) currently in residence at the Tower. The remaining three, according to Metro's Kate Buck, will be placed under the care of a specialist breeder in Somerset.
As William Booth wrote for the Washington Post in October 2018, Skaife's day begins with the ravens' release from their dormitories, or airy enclosures where they are kept at night to avoid deadly encounters with foxes. The seven corvids—three females named Erin, Poppy and Merlina, as well as four males named Jubilee, Harris, Gripp and Rocky—are released in order of least to most dominant; they spend the remainder of their time hopping across Tower grounds, scavenging through trash, playing with magpies, and flying, albeit "not very well and not too far."
In the past, ravenmasters trimmed their charges' feathers to prevent escape and, if legend is to be believed, cataclysmic, kingdom-wide doom. But as Skaife tells Booth, he stopped this practice after a raven named Thor fell from scaffolding on the fortress' White Tower and died in 2010.
The newborn crows' beaks won't turn fully black for another year or so Courtesy of Historic Royal Palaces
Despite Skaife and previous caretakers' best efforts, some ravens have actually managed to fly the coop. One, named Munin (different from the breeding raven Muninn), escaped down the Thames River but was spotted by a local birdwatcher, who captured her in a gym bag and returned her to the Tower. Historic U.K. further highlights Grog, an escapee last seen outside of an East End pub in 1981, while Atlas Obscura's Sarah Laskow details the story of George, a raven who left the Tower under decidedly different circumstances. As the official dismissal order, issued after George destroyed five TV antennas in one week, stated, "On Saturday 13th September 1986, Raven George, enlisted 1975, was posted to the Welsh Mountain Zoo. Conduct unsatisfactory, service therefore no longer required."
Overall, Tower ravens tend to live longer than those in the wild. According to Historic Royal Palaces, the charity tasked with overseeing the Tower and other national landmarks, one corvid lived from 1884 to 1928—an astounding 44 years. Today, the ravens enjoy a diet of fresh raw meat, a once-weekly egg treat and the occasional rabbit.
In a press release, the ravenmaster—author of a 2018 autobiography detailing his singular occupation—concludes, "Having worked with the ravens here at the Tower for the last thirteen years and getting to know each of them, I feel like a proud father."
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Meilan Solly is Smithsonian magazine's associate digital editor, history. Website: meilansolly.com.
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Phylogeographic structure in penguin ticks across an ocean basin indicates allopatric divergence and rare trans-oceanic dispersal
Moon, Katherine L; Banks, Sam; Fraser, Ceridwen
The association of ticks (Acarina) and seabirds provides an intriguing system for assessing the influence of long-distance dispersal on the evolution of parasitic species. Recent research has focused on host-parasite evolutionary relationships and dispersal capacity of ticks parasitising flighted seabirds. Evolutionary research on the ticks of non-flighted seabirds is, in contrast, scarce. We conducted the first phylogeographic investigation of a hard tick species (Ixodes eudyptidis) that...[Show more] parasitises the Little Blue Penguin (Eudyptula minor). Using one nuclear (28S) and two mitochondrial (COI and 16S) markers, we assessed genetic diversity among several populations in Australia and a single population on the South Island of New Zealand. Our results reveal two deeply divergent lineages, possibly representing different species: one comprising all New Zealand samples and some from Australia, and the other representing all other samples from Australian sites. No significant population differentiation was observed among any Australian sites from within each major clade, even those separated by hundreds of kilometres of coastline. In contrast, the New Zealand population was significantly different to all samples from Australia. Our phylogenetic results suggest that the New Zealand and Australian populations are effectively isolated from each other; although rare long-distance dispersal events must occur, these are insufficient to maintain trans-Tasman gene flow. Despite the evidence for limited dispersal of penguin ticks between Australia and New Zealand, we found no evidence to suggest that ticks are unable to disperse shorter distances at sea with their hosts, with no pattern of population differentiation found among Australian sites. Our results suggest that terrestrial seabird parasites may be quite capable of short-distance movements, but only sporadic longer-distance (trans-oceanic) dispersal.
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Piggot, Judith Innes (2008) Emotion attribution from facial expressions in individuals with social communication. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.
Social communication impairment (SCI) is recognised as the core deficit in all autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Social communication involves the perceptual, emotion and cognitive processing of the facial expressions of other people to attribute the correct emotion. Activation in these three regions of interest (ROI) is, potentially, informative when investigating the underlying aetiology of SCI. Therefore, they were chosen a priori as ROI during the attribution of emotion attribution from facial expressions with the categorical and dimensional studies respectively. In the categorical studies, 16 high functioning individuals with an ASD diagnosis and 10 typically developing controls attributed emotion from static facial expressions while neural activation in these three hypothesis-driven ROI was measured. Individuals with ASD demonstrated comparable expertise and had comparable ROI activation during the emotion attribution task that required configural processing [the emotion label task]. However, these same individuals demonstrated reduced expertise and reduced right FG activation during the emotion attribution task that did not require configural processing [the emotion match task], and reduced right FG activation in a task that required them to attend to the eyes region of the face to attribute gaze direction. The findings provided evidence that individuals with ASD configurally process face percepts when necessary for the completion of the task, but use atypical face processing strategies in tasks that have greater perceptual load and do not necessitate configural processing. These findings support that task-dependant perceptual processing abnormalities in ASD are not related to reduced attention to the eyes region of the face per se; however, did not rule out that these abnormalities may relate to reduced configural processing/ attention to the whole face stimuli in individuals with ASD. The dimensional studies were undertaken to further investigate the relationship between FG responsivity and expertise in the attribution of emotion from facial expressions. These facial expressions, which were presented in a paradigm called the Dynamic Facial Expression Paradigm (DFEP), required configural processing and continuous attention to the whole face. Individuals with SCI had a similar capacity to accurately attribute emotion from non-inverted dynamic facial expressions as their brothers. Although there was no statistically significant difference in expertise between the proband and brother group, the trend toward increased response time in the non-inverted condition of the DFEP in the SCI group suggests the use of an accuracy/ response time trade-off strategy. SCI was directly correlated with right FG activation across the groups and the proband group activated significantly greater right FG activation to achieve a comparable level of performance as the brother group in the non-inverted condition of the DFEP. This finding may be related to increased configural processing and/ or the greater attentional demands inherent in attributing emotion from non-inverted dynamic facial expressions. The inverse was found in the inverted condition of the DFEP providing evidence for different perceptual processing strategies between groups when also processing inverted dynamic facial expressions. Both the categorical and dimensional studies provide evidence in support of the functional specialisation of the right FG for the configural processing of facial expressions, and atypical task-dependent perceptual processing in these high functioning individuals with SCI. Differing configural processing and attentional demands inherent in the experimental paradigms and atypical perceptual strategies offer possible explanations for atypical perceptual processing and differing right FG activation seen in these and other studies of face and facial expression processing (6-8). In the future, larger studies are required to further investigate accuracy/ speed trade-offs and determine if high functioning individuals with SCI are less expert in the attribution of emotion from facial expressions. Connectivity and fMRI studies utilising experimental designs such as parametric load analysis and incorporating eye-tracking technology are also required to further elucidate the relationship between behaviour, cognition, and neural function in individuals with SCI. Specifically, further integrated research is needed to determine the relationship between right FG activation, configural processing of facial expressions and attention to faces in individuals with SCI.


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Trash-Talking the 2015 Sweet Sixteen
Last weekend, we got all the "cute" stories about your various "David and Goliath" stuff. But this weekend, we start finding who the best teams are. The problem is despite what your bracket says, all these teams suck somehow. That's why every year at this time, we here at Dubsism share that fact with you.
1) Arizona
It used to be really easy really easy to hate Arizona when Lute Olson was still the head coach. But now that he's gone, we have to do a bit more homework to trash the Wildcats.
Actually, that's a good place to start. How many goddamn teams in this tournament were named "Wildcats?" I guess we're actually lucky this team isn't named "Los Gatos muy Loco" given the fact we don't seem terribly interested in border security anymore. Is Arizona still in the U.S.?
Besides that, it really is no secret that there isn't a lot going on in Arizona. Even if there were, for most of the year, the simple act of venturing outside means you run the risk of being vaporized by the sun. Even if you make it to your car, you can't touch the steering wheel or the seats with out that insulated clothing firemen wear.
So, what do most people in Arizona do? They drink beyond the point of brain damage, and they aren't afraid to make sure you know it. Sure, there's lots of college bars where you can see people who pound booze religiously at least nine days a week; those bars which are like a zoo with a happy hour, places where you can see the full range of loud, obnoxious drunks falling over themselves, pounding liquor, vomiting in bushes, and doing body shots. You expect that at a college bar, but in Arizona, that's the scene at a Denny's.
2) Duke
Despite it's elitist airs, Duke is still in North Carolina. Duke is an Ivy League wanna-be stuck in a dismal shit-hole like Durham. This is a bit like having a three-hundred pond stripper with a 24-karat navel ring. Thanks the way this tournament shook out, we've got two more shots at North Carolina coming.
So, I'll stick to Duke specifically here. Oh, Duke, how do I hate thee; let me count the ways. Here's two good ones.
As mentioned, Duke pretends it is a great place to send your sheltered, privileged kids all while it is located in an exceptionally dangerous neighborhood.
Mike Krzyzewski himself. I get that he is a disciple of Bobby Knight, but there is a major difference. It is one thing to be an asshole; it is an entirely other thing to spend thirty years hiding that fact.
But most importantly. Krzyzewski has been getting his ass kissed for reaching 1,00o wins, when he really should have put on probation on at least two occasions I can think of.
Jim Boeheim just got wins striopped from him for a lot of things, but Coach K did one of them in the 1998-1999 season when he played Corey Maggette, who admitted he was ineligible for taking money in high school. Not to mention Lance Thomas should have been ineligible in 2009-2010 after he got $30,000 in cash to put down on a Jesus necklace.
3) Gonzaga
I'm straggling to stay awake write this. If you want a recipe for boring, put a Catholic school in a town that has nothing but onion farms and the world's largest collection of Bing Crosby memorabilia. Spokane makes Salt Lake City look exciting.
Crosby: down with Adrian Peterson's child-disciplining style.
4) Kentucky
Kentucky tears me. On the one hand, I believe Kentucky bourbon is the definition of "manna from heaven;" single drinking-handedly, I'm probably 40% of the economy of the Bluegrass State. If you ever see me on one of those "Intervention" shows, dump your stock in Jim Beam. Don't wait to call your stock broker in the morning, break into his house that night and get your money the fuck out NOW. But on the other hand, when it comes to basketball, these people still revere that racist asshole Adolph Rupp. They ran Tubby Smith out of town for no real reason, and brought in a snail-trail-leaver like John Calipari. The person who roots for Kentucky basketball also likely roots for the New York Yankees, the bad guys from the "Karate Kid," and ISIS.
5) Louisville
Dear Residents of Louisville,
Let me explain to you why nobody has any respect for your city. First of all, to be a world-class city, you have to settle on a standard pronunciation. You would never see a sign the like the one above in a real city. Secondly, you keep describing your city as the "capital of Kentuckiana." If it weren't bad enough there is no such place, you've created one out of the two worst parts of two of the worst states in America. Combining Indiana with Kentucky is like joining infected, oozing hemmorhoids with a bowel obstruction.
Now, let's talk about this basketball team for minute, shall we? Somebody in Louisville needs to tell Rick Pitino that coaching basketball in Kentucky in a building called the KFC Yum! Center while wearing white suits is just begging for "Colonel Sanders" jokes…and having a bird mascot doesn't help. I'll get you started – "Cardinal basketball – a special blend of eleven secret fouls and turnovers."
6) Michigan State
Really, I should just write a generic bit for all B1G Ten teams whenever they make any tournament, because they all really do the same thing. They get into the "Big Dance," and then somehow lose to some peckerwood SEC team like Kentucky. But Michigan State deserves a special layer of scorn and derision as they aren't even an original member of the B1G Ten. They didn't join until 1949 when it was still known as Michigan State Sit When You Pee College and Tire Care Center.
7) North Carolina
A while back, I wrote an article about great sports rivalries in which I hate both sides. Duke – North Carolina was ranked very high on that list. You can read that post to see why.
The important thing to know about North Carolina is that if it weren't for Duke, those assholes would BE Duke. No school has benefited more from having an arch-rival who happens to be even bigger douchebags. In other words, hating Duke does not exempt you from getting your own level of hate. You would LOVE to be Duke. You would LOVE to enjoy that Dukian sense of entitlement and have Dick Vitale lapping up Roy Williams' spooge off a locker room floor.
8) North Carolina State
How much pride can you have in being the state school in the only state where it's legal to rape someone and fish at the same time. Arkansas gets all the rap for this, but North Carolina is the cousin-raping capital of America. No matter what you do, no matter what you think, as you are reading this, there are at least three people in the North Carolina woods with a cousin's penis inside them that they don't want inside them.
Not to mention, Jim Valvano is dead, so is Lorenzo Charles, and NC State is still the school people only go to when they can't get into to Appalachian State.
9) Notre Dame
I'm not going to lie…I'm not used to hating Notre Dame for anything other than football. Fortunately, I'm fairly certain I won't have to worry about that long, because everything about a leprechaun is anathema to a fearful basketball mascot.
10) Oklahoma
See what I said about Notre Dame, and replace the word "leprechaun" with the word "tornado." Those sky-borne funnels of death are the only thing interesting about Oklahoma, and it should tell you something that in the worlds most famous tornado-based movie scene, Dorothy longs for Kansas. Call me a dinosaur, but to me, the last time Oklahoma basketball was interesting was that 1988 Billy Tubbs-coached team which featured Wayman Tisdale, who became more famous a a jazz musician, and Stacey King, who became Michael Jordan's personal ring mandrel.
11) UCLA
If there were a college basketball version of a Monopoly board, UCLA would be Boardwalk. No school ever can now, nor will ever match what the Bruins meant to college basketball in the John Wooden era. But that was then, and this is now. Even for recent glimpses of Bruin glory, you need to recall names like Tyus Edney. Can you do that? I didn't think so.
12) Utah
Utah is the exact opposite of UCLA in terms of college basketball history. Utah's hoops heyday came under Dubsy Award winner Rick Majerus. Ute basketball history is the Bonneville Salt Flats, and even hardcore NBA fans would be hard-pressed to point out another Utah alum who made a difference in the NBA not named Keith Van Horn.
13) West Virginia
There's an old saying about a picture being a thousand words. What's a missing letter worth?
14) Wichita State:
Wichita State's mascot is known as the "Shockers." This term actually refers to the stacking of wheat during the harvesting process before modern motorized farm machinery. But that was then. I think we all know what "shocker" means now.
15) Wisconsin
Do you know why Wisconsin is home to so many great serial killers? Because somehow Wisconsinites have taken two great things like sports and booze and managed to completely fuck them up. As far as the University of Wisconsin is concerned, the sport they really are the best at is hockey, which is why they play every other sport like the are on the ice. Badger football is like an old-school NHL game; they get a big offensive line and just beat you into the boards for sixty minutes, Bucky hoop is like watching that adapted version of floor hockey they let the retarded kids play; lots of passes so bad they look like shots, and shots so bad they look like passes. Even the girls teams only change their pads every three periods.
But for some reason this year is different. Now their star player looks like "Shaggy" from Sccoby-Doo with a pituitary problem, and the whole team looks like it can actually play.
16) Xavier
If you thought a catholic school in Spokane was rough, imagine one in Cincinnnati, which despite what any map will tell you, is actually the largest city in Kentucky. Worse yet, Mrs. Dubsism has hung the moniker "Big Sexy" on Xavier center Matt Stainbrook. It's clearly time to stop taking her to Target Optical.
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Arizona was hatable during the Lute Olson era? Interesting. I never thought that, but oh, well.
Besides Duke, UCLA would be second on my hate list. They have a prick in Steve Alford (who took a "Christian" along with him to threaten a rape victim of one of his players when he was coach of Iowa), and the most overrated dynasty of all time (a dynasty that was built with weak regions, injuries to Bob Lanier, Marvin Barnes, and Scott May, and Sam Gilbert's money).
This entry was posted on March 26, 2015 by J-Dub in Basketball, Humor, Sports and tagged Basketball, Matt Stainbrook, Mike Krzyzewski, NCAA Basketball Tournament, Rick Pitino, Sweet Sixteen.
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* [geekcomputers/Python](https://github.com/geekcomputers/Python): My Python Examples
* [dropbox/stone](https://github.com/dropbox/stone): Write your APIs in stone.
* [dmlc/dgl](https://github.com/dmlc/dgl): Python package built to ease deep learning on graph, on top of existing DL frameworks.
* [rg3/youtube-dl](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl): Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites
* [uber/ludwig](https://github.com/uber/ludwig): Ludwig is a toolbox built on top of TensorFlow that allows to train and test deep learning models without the need to write code.
* [matterport/Mask_RCNN](https://github.com/matterport/Mask_RCNN): Mask R-CNN for object detection and instance segmentation on Keras and TensorFlow
* [home-assistant/home-assistant](https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant):  Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first
* [thisisparker/cursewords](https://github.com/thisisparker/cursewords):  Terminal-based crossword puzzle solving interface

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* [pwaller/go2ll-talk](https://github.com/pwaller/go2ll-talk): Live coding a basic Go compiler with LLVM in 20 minutes
* [fsnotify/fsnotify](https://github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify): Cross-platform file system notifications for Go.
* [gocaio/goca](https://github.com/gocaio/goca): Goca Scanner
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How you go about converting your attic will depend on what you want to use the space for.
Will I need a new floor?
How will I get to the new room?
Do I want rooflights or windows fitted?
If you plan to use the attic space to store light items (e.g. suitcases and Christmas decorations) then loose boarding is usually satisfactory. Remember that the ceiling joists are intended fix the ceiling below and are not designed to take heavy loads. To prevent any overloading of the ceiling joists, loose boarding shouldn't cover more than 50% of the usable area.
'Usable area' is the part of the roof space with a headroom greater than 1.5m (approximately 4'6"). Access to this storage area is often by a retractable ladder.
For any use other than light storage you will need to tell the Building Control Section who will advise you on what you need to do.


But Ladd is still an interesting actor. I haven't seen enough of him to get a line on his personality, but he seems to be a pretty good actor. Some time down the line I think I might get to a double feature of his westerns (of which he made a few), but in the meantime, being the film noir aficionado that I am, I present this pairing for the blogathon.
Alan Ladd plays a postal inspector in this entry. (Who knew post office employees could have such hair-raising adventures?) A postal inspector has been murdered and the follow up investigation, a postal inspector named Al Goddard (Ladd) tries to figure out why.
On a rainy night in Gary Indiana, two men murder a postal inspector. The men are played by Harry Morgan (as George Soderquist) and Jack Webb (as Joe Regas). Yes the two men who are well known as a pair of cops from the black and white TV series Dragnet play a couple of hoodlums. This is one of the more interesting aspects of the film. Webb in particular plays a rather sadistic sort, although, in my opinion, Webb played every character pretty much the same way, with his rather serious demeanor and distinct staccato delivery of lines. Actually, Morgan is pretty much identifiable too, but he has a bigger range of emotions that he can play.
In the alley where they are trying to ditch the body they are spotted by a nun, Sister Augustine (Phyllis Calvert). While George distracts the nun, Joe tries to manhandle the body and George tells the sister that the friend is drunk. She goes on her way, but tells a cop about the incident. Instead of checking it out the cop decides to chase down a speeding car instead.
Goddard is brought in on the case after the body is discovered and the cop has confessed he didn't investigate, but the nun is named as a witness. Goddard's first job is to track down the nun. When he finds her he has to remind her that it is her duty to identify the man she saw because she is reluctant to get involved. Augustine tells the Mother Superior of the nunnery that she is reluctant because she sees that Goddard has "no heart, no charity".
Regas tells his boss, Earl Boettinger (Paul Stewart), that George has become a liability. Regas wants to kill Soderquist, but Boettinger just wants to have George leave town. When George refuses, Joe kills him. Joe is a really sick individual. He also wants to kill the nun because he thinks she can identify him too. As such he tries to arrange an accident for her, but the plan falls through and she survives.
Goddard goes undercover as a rogue agent to infiltrate the mob planning their heist. (They are going to rob a mail truck as it is transferring a load of money from one train to another). Joe, being the suspicious sort, does not trust Goddard. (I would bet Joe would look crosswise if someone handed him a diamond ring and told him it was a gift...) There is some subterfuge going on and the suspense is tight in the movie. On more than one occasion it looks like Goddard's plans might be revealed. But Joe, being the weak link in the chain because of his obsessive nature, causes the plans to go awry himself.
If it hadn't been for my affinity to try to make double features out of my posts here, I might never have seen this movie. I have Hamlette to thank for that, as it is a pretty entertaining flick, although I still don't like Goddard....even if he is the good guy. Wikipedia notes that this was the last film noir film in Ladd's career, and he goes out with a pretty good bang.
Alan Ladd is one of three buddies who have just been released from military service, Johnny Morrison. He and his palls, Buzz (William Bendix) and George (Hugh Beaumont, the dad on Leave it to Beaver) are recent Navy men. Buzz suffers from shell shock and George has poor eyesight, but Johnny is released after meritorious service.
The three get off the bus in Hollywood where Johnny is married to a woman, Helen (Doris Dowling). He goes home where he finds things aren't exactly as he thought they would be. His wife is carrying on an affair with another man, Eddie Harwood (Howard da Silva).
Johnny wanders out in the rain where he is picked up by a woman (Veronica Lake). He tells her his name is Jimmy Moore, and it is later revealed that she is the wife of the man with whom Helen had been having an affair. Sometime after Johnny left Helen, she was shot and killed. Johnny is prime suspect number one of course since she was shot with his gun.
Johnny makes out that he is in trouble and realizes the only way to clear himself is to find out who really shot his wife. His first suspect, of course, is Harwood. The gritty film nor plays all its cards pretty straight, by leading you on through several prime suspects, one of which is Buzz. See Buzz has a problem with short term memory and the fact that "monkey music" (jazz) makes his head ache due to the plate in his head, the source of the shell shock.
Even I have trouble liking Ladd's character in Appointment with Danger. But I dig that he could play a character I don't like, and like you said, it's a good noir.
But Blue Dahlia -- oh man, that is such a good movie. Even though Ladd's character there isn't exactly a boy scout either, you really get to caring for him. Also, this is the only original screenplay my favorite author, Raymond Chandler, ever wrote (he adapted quite a few books into screenplays, too), and I love the dialog so much.
Morrison may not be a Boy Scout, but he's no Raven, either. Chandler did justice to it, that's for sure. I'm a dialogue person so it works on that level, too. My favorite dialogue guy, though, is William Goldman, although as far as I know he never was involved in noir work. It would have to have been neo noir if he was... Thanks for reading.
Yeah, Morrison's definitely no Raven! Which is why he survives to the end of the film.
Chandler had a totally different ending written, but the military made him change it, which means the whole ending feels a wee bit contrived, but it still works.
Love The Blue Dhalia, though I've always been more taken by Bendix's performance that by Ladd's.
But as you say, the real magic is how all the characters are so intertwined.
Bendix is so much more than just Chester Riley, as I've found out in recent years. Thanks for reading.
I think Shane was my first film with Ladd, too - well, excluding his bit part in Citizen Kane. I also think he is a good actor, and I'm liking him more and more with each film I see.


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Sacramento Police Investigating Several Vehicle Shootings
Posted 5:59 PM, April 4, 2016, by Rina Nakano
SACRAMENTO --
Sacramento police are actively investigating several vehicle shootings.
A case of late night munchies turned violent. About 4 a.m. Saturday, Sacramento police said a fight broke out in the drive-thru lane of a fast food restaurant on Power Inn and Elder Creek roads.
Investigators said a man began throwing items out of his car, toward the vehicle in front of him.
Once both cars left the drive-thru, the situation escalated.
The man in one of the cars followed the other vehicle down Elder Creek Road to Stockton Boulevard and started shooting.
A young man was hit and transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
The shooter is still on the loose.
"At this time, we don't have any information that would lead us to believe that these two groups of people knew each other," said Officer Matthew McPhail of the Sacramento Police Department.
Just minutes before this incident, CHP got reports of another shooting on I-80, near Cal Expo Parkway. Someone rolled up to a car and fired several rounds.
"The female victim in this case did sustain a non-life threatening injury, and they were transported to an area hospital to receive treatment," McPhail said.
Investigators do not have a motive, and no suspect has been identified.
Sacramento police are investigating several vehicle shootings at this time, including the murder of Christian Torres back in February. The 19-year-old was also shot and killed by a person driving past him on Norwood Avenue near I-80. Investigators are still without a suspect.
Police do not believe these incidents are related. They don't think the shooters and victims know each other, and they are still trying to figure out if they stemmed from road rage. But they are warning the public to always drive defensively.
"The best practice is always drive courteously and respect people around you, and hopefully they follow the golden rule and give you the same respect," McPhail said.
If you have any information, call the Sacramento Police Department at (916) 264-5471 or (916) 443-HELP.
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DERANGED MARXIST and NY AG Letitia James Vows to Press Charges Against President Trump After He Leaves Office… She'll Make Up Charges Later
In November 2018 Letitia James became the first African-American elected the Attorney General of New York state.
It didn't take long for Letitia to show her true colors.
In a video after her election James was seen cursing and threatening President Trump.
Reporter: What would you say to people who say, 'Oh, I'm not going to bother to register to vote because my voice doesn't make a difference." Or, "I'm just one person."
Letitia James: "I say one name. Donald Trump. That should motivate you. Get off your ass and vote.
Reporter: Will you sue him for us?
Letitia James: Oh, we're definitely going to sue him. We're going to be a real pain in the ass. He's going to know my name personally.
Joseph Stalin's henchman Lavrently once famously said, "Show me the man and I'll show you the crime."
This is today's Democrat party.
On Tuesday Letitia James went on with "The View" and promised the unhinged mob she would go after President Trump and his family even if he pardoned himself(?)
This is a popular line on the American left today. Democrats are sure that President Trump, the most popular president in the last 50 years, should be tried for crimes.
They're just not sure WHAT CRIMES to charge him with.
The Democrat Party is more and more like the Stalinists every single day.
DERANGED MARXIST and NY AG Letitia James Vows to Press Charges Against President Trump After He Leaves Office… She'll Make Up Charges Later Reviewed by STATION GOSSIP on 17:19 Rating: 5


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A Map of the North Pole with all the Territories...
Herman Moll
A Map of the North Pole with all the Territories that lye near it, known to us . . . According to the latest Discoveries and most Exact Observations
London / 1729 circa
Hand Colored
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A fine example of Moll's map of the polar regions, known and unknown.
The western part of North America is conspicuously absent, as is northeast Asia. A lengthy narrative note along the bottom describes the best contemporary knowledge.
The body of the map includes some early place names and dates of discoveries.
Herman Moll Biography
Herman Moll (c. 1654-1732) was one of the most important London mapmakers in the first half of the eighteenth century. Moll was probably born in Bremen, Germany, around 1654. He moved to London to escape the Scanian Wars. His earliest work was as an engraver for Moses Pitt on the production of the English Atlas, a failed work which landed Pitt in debtor's prison. Moll also engraved for Sir Jonas Moore, Grenville Collins, John Adair, and the Seller & Price firm. He published his first original maps in the early 1680s and had set up his own shop by the 1690s.
Moll's work quickly helped him become a member of a group which congregated at Jonathan's Coffee House at Number 20 Exchange Alley, Cornhill, where speculators met to trade stock. Moll's circle included the scientist Robert Hooke, the archaeologist William Stuckley, the authors Jonathan Swift and Daniel Defoe, and the intellectually-gifted pirates William Dampier, Woodes Rogers and William Hacke. From these contacts, Moll gained a great deal of privileged information that was included in his maps.
Over the course of his career, he published dozens of geographies, atlases, and histories, not to mention numerous sheet maps. His most famous works are Atlas Geographus, a monthly magazine that ran from 1708 to 1717, and The World Described (1715-54). He also frequently made maps for books, including those of Dampier's publications and Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Moll died in 1732. It is likely that his plates passed to another contemporary, Thomas Bowles, after this death.
Antique Maps / Polar Maps
Amer. Sep. No. 1. Iles George
The Isles of George in the Arctic Sea.
The Russian Discoveries, from the Map Published by the Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg . . . 1775
First English edition of Muller's map of the Northwest Coast of America and Northeast Coast of Asia, based upon reports from J.N. De L'Isle in St. Petersburg and others.
[North Polar Calotte from a 17th Century Dutch Globe]
Unrecorded Globe Calotte with Map of the North Polar Regions
Facies Poli Antarctici ex recentissimis itinerariis descripta . . .
Interesting and nearly completely conjectural map of the South Pole from Davide Kohler's Descriptio Orbis Antiqui…published by Weigel in 1720.
Hemisphere Septentrional pour voir plus distinctement Les Terres Arctiques . . .
Fine Map of the Northern Hemisphere from Guillaume De L'Isle


When I first arrived to Jacksonville I met Sean Collins (On Twitter @JaxBeard) at an AIGA Cocktails and Creatives event. In the flurry of business cards and shaken hands his introduction stood out to me especially.
Naïve little newcomer to the beach life me, I decided this was probably the coolest club/society/organization I've heard of in a long time. I attended my first meeting and found the crowd great and the beard competition (complete with beard and moustache naming) even better. Founder Sean Collins and I crossed paths again when we both gave Pecha Kucha speeches at MOCA Jax—me presenting my off-kilter comics and he promoting the lesser-known but passionately observed hobby of the beard.
Most recently I had the honor of participating in the Beards and Brushes Art Show here in Jacksonville. Facial hair artworks of every shape and form graced the walls of the Bogda Gallery, just as varied as the beards, just as vibrant as their creators.
If you would like to hang with the Beardsmith Society, check out their new website at www.jaxbeard.com and don't worry, if you don't have facial hair, they provide it for you.


Anjuna Beach is one of the beach of North Goa the nearest town is Mapusa which is few kilometer to the east . Anjuna beach is to the west of village with lots of restaurants & bars. Anjuna is famous for its parties, it is the home for most night clubs of Goa there are nightclubs cater to western package visitors in Baga & Calangute.


Charitable organisations need to adapt to these new circumstances and find different ways to raise funds, reach new audiences and make it easier for them to donate.
In Winter 2017 TMH, a specialist marketing and media agency working across the world with faith and ethnic organisations, charities and social enterprises, commissioned their second report on UK Christians' attitudes to charitable giving. It revealed that 87% of Christians regularly donate to charity. This is considerably higher than that of the whole UK population when comparing these figures to those released by CAF in 2017 – just 61% of their UK wide sample donated to charity*.
The report showed that nearly all those who donated to charity (92%) also gave to their church; with just under half donating at least once a week. Of the 13% of UK Christians who do not give to charity, 72% do donate to their church.
Religious charities and those that support young people and the homeless were the most popular causes. Despite the popularity of these, Cancer Research was the best supported according to the findings.
Over a third of participants donate regularly by direct debit with online donations at 19%. These were the preferred methods. However, almost two-thirds have donated online, which is an increase from the TMH 2015 report, and with digital being high on agendas and the ways users interact changing, this figure should rise further in later years. With potential donors keen to research how their money will be used, text has limitations and was not preferable with 59% of respondents never having donated in this way.
A fifth (19%) of participants were made aware of the charities they support through TV advertising, followed by websites at 15%. Over 70% of participants watch seven hours of Christian TV per week.
Although UK Christians give regularly and generously to both charitable causes and their church. And, despite 79% of donors feeling engaged with those they support. Only 29% of them considered donating a percentage of their estate as a legacy gift upon their death. 17% of donors said they will not leave a legacy gift, and 54% said they were 'unsure' about leaving a legacy donation. Importantly, the survey also revealed that 58% of participants did not know how to leave a legacy gift.


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As organizations start implementing ITSM and/or SOA, the interdependence between the two should become obvious. Are organizations recognizing this connection? How can this inherent relationship be leveraged to plan and execute a common implementation and achieve higher level of efficiency, better quality of service, and reduced cost?


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