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A Jefferson County couple face assault charges after a man was shot and stabbed multiple times at a home in Tuscaloosa County.
Larry Lynn Jacobs, 49, and Kaci Claire Norred, 26, were both charged with second-degree assault Friday. Jacobs is accused of shooting the 48-year-old victim three times and Norred is accused of stabbing him six times.
A witness told police they assaulted the man because he was assaulting her and others at the house on Eastern Valley Road.
Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's Office deputies were called to the residence around 11:40 p.m. on Jan. 5. The victim had been shot twice in the back and once in the left knee and had six stab wounds in his back.
"He could not tell deputies on scene who assaulted him or where it occurred," Tuscaloosa Violent Crimes Unit Investigator Glenn Morrison wrote in a report.
On Jan. 9, a woman contacted authorities and identified Jacobs, of McCalla, and Norred, of Bessemer, as suspects.
"She stated that Jacobs shot (the victim) because he was assaulting her and everybody at the scene," the investigator wrote.
Jacobs refused to give police a statement, according to the report, but Norred admitted to stabbing the man. Both were charged with second-degree assault Friday. Jacobs was released that day after posting $10,000 bond and Norred was released on $5,000 bond.


Linked Open Data (LOD) has emerged as one of the largest collection of interlinked datasets on the web. Benefiting from this mine of data requires the existence of descriptive information about each dataset in the accompanying metadata. Such meta information is currently very limited to few data portals where they are usually provided manually thus giving little or bad quality insights. To address this issue, we propose a scalable automatic approach for extracting, validating and generating descriptive linked dataset profiles. This approach applies several techniques to check the validity of the attached metadata as well as providing descriptive and statistical information of a certain dataset as well as a whole data portal. Using our framework on prominent data portals shows that the general state of the Linked Open Data needs attention as most of datasets suffer from bad quality metadata and lack additional informative metrics.
URL inspection: Check the existence of certain URL patterns.
Meta tags inspection: For example, meta[content*="ckan] (all meta tags with the attribute content containing the string CKAN). This selector can identify CKAN portals whereas the meta[content*="Drupal"] can identify DKAN portals.
Document Object Model (DOM) inspection: Similar to the meta tags inspection, we check the existence of certain DOM elements or properties.
The identification process for each portal can be easily customized by overriding the prototype.check function for each parser. Moreover, adding or removing steps from the identification process can be easily configured.
Data portals expose a set of information about each dataset as metadata. The model used varies across portals. However, a standard model should contain information about the dataset's title, description, maintainer email, update and creation date, etc.
Although Roomba is generic and accepts any data model to check against, for the moment we have used the the CKAN standard model.
After identifying the underlying portal software, we perform iterative queries to the API in order to fetch datasets metadata and persist them in a file-based cache system. Depending on the portal software we can issue specific extraction jobs. For example, in CKAN based portals, we are able to crawl and extract the metadata of a specific dataset, all the datasets in a specific group e.g. LOD Cloud or all the datasets in the portal.
Resource metadata validation and enrichment: Check the resource attached metadata values. Similar to the dataset metadata, each resource should include information about its mimetype, name, description, format, valid dereferenceable URL, size, type and provenance. The validation process issue an HTTP request to the resource and automatically fills up various missing information when possible, like the mimetype and size by extracting them from the HTTP response header. However, missing fields like name and description that needs manual input are marked as missing and will appear in the generated summary report.
Format validation: Validate specific resource formats against a linter or a validator.
Metadata validation process identifies missing information and the ability to automatically correct them. Each set of metadata (general, access, ownership and provenance) is validated and corrected automatically when possible. Each profiler task has a set of metadata fields to check against. The validation process check if each field is defined and if the value assigned is valid.
There exist a bunch of special validation steps for various fields. For example, for ownership information where the maintainer email has to be defined, the validator checks if the email field is an actual valid email address. A similar process is done to URLs whenever found. However, we also issue an HTTP HEAD request in order to check if that URL is reachable or not. For the dataset resources, we use the content-header information when the request is successfull in order to extract, compare and correct further metadata values like mimetype and content size.
"unkownError" : "Erreur inconnue .."
The generated profile contains the information spotted in the profile as well as general statistics for them.
The standardization of Semantic Web technologies and specifications has resulted in a staggering volume of data being published. The Linked Open Data (LOD) is a gold mine for organizations trying to leverage external data sources in order to produce more informed business decisions. However, the heterogeneous nature of data sources reflects directly on the data quality as these sources often contain inconsistent as well as misinterpreted and incomplete information. Traditional data quality is a thoroughly researched field with several benchmarks and frameworks to grasp its dimensions. Ensuring data quality in Linked Open Data is much more complex. It consists of structured information supported by models, ontologies and vocabularies and contains queryable endpoints and links. In this paper, we first propose an objective assessment framework for Linked Data quality. In a previous work, we identified potential quality issues of Linked Data and listed quality principles for all stages of data management. We have built upon this work but focus only on the objective quality indicators based on metrics that can be automatically measured. We surveyed the landscape of Linked Data quality tools to discover that they only cover a subset of the proposed quality indicators. As a result, we present an extensible quality measurement tool that helps on one hand data owners to rate the quality of their datasets and get some hints on possible improvements, and on the other hand data consumers to choose their data sources from a ranked set.
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There's of course a ton of little tidbits that we can learn about SEO from a document whose initial purpose was to be a resource for actual quality testers for Google. A rarity for the search giant, the document's public release gave online marketers an insight into the methods and standards for ranking webpages for quality utilizing a variety of factors. While the general principles are not changing and remain common sense, it was really interesting to see the details and the complex steps that are taken to make sure the algorithm is constantly improving.
Instead of discussing the document and it's importance in web development and Search Engine Optimization (cliff notes: give the user what they want), I thought there were some pretty cool correlations to marketing in general, and the terms that Google uses can be applied to not only SEO and the web, but to businesses and their customers in multiple situations.
An acronym for Expertise/Authoritativeness/Trustworthiness, which is self explanatory. If your E-A-T isn't up to snuff, then you can be seen as an amateur, or worse – a fraud. It's important to portray a high authority and expertise in your industry in all facets of your marketing. You can do this by putting valuable content into your marketing materials (examples, case studies, tutorials, technical information), or using other forms of communication such as hosting webinars, writing books, speaking at conferences, writing articles on your blog and/or other sites. It's an obvious assumption that if you're seen as an expert / authority to your customers, they're more likely to choose you over your competitors – and more likely to share their experience with others.
Being trustworthy has always been important, but it's become more critical year after year due to increasing competition for many industries, as well as the ease-of-access for the average user to compare businesses against each other. If you live in a town like Billings that has dozens of choices for services like electricians, plumbers, dentists, optometrists, etc… as well as access to each via the web, social media, and more – then suddenly factors such as price, location, and services aren't the only criteria by which they are judged. Everyone inherently knows how to be more trustworthy as a business, but making it a priority for your customers in all ways such as quicker communication, problem solving, being involved in the community, and generally treating each customer with respect and dedication become more important.
E-A-T is important for ALL businesses, but there are some categories of businesses that should have an even higher standard of Expertise/Authoritativeness/Trustworthiness, mainly businesses that deal in Your Money or Your Life (YMYL).
Google's term "Your Money or Your Life" refers to pages that could "potentially impact the future happiness, health, or wealth of users". These kinds of pages are held to a higher standard of quality, and rightly so. If your business involves financial information, medical information, legal information, or other related services that can affect your customers money or life (covers just about everyone doesn't it?) then your E-A-T needs to be even more crucial to your marketing communications.
There was a great article by inc.com about four powerful cognitive biases in human psychology. If you want to read the whole thing (it's a good read), click here. The first bias the author mentions that relates to YMYL is referred to as "Loss Aversion", which basically means that the human mind is more affected by things getting taken away than being given. The example they use was taking away $50 from someone will bother them more than giving $50. If your business affects your customer's money or life (or both), be prepared to work harder to position yourself as an authority, and to gain their trust.
In the search quality guidelines, an emphasis on determining and evaluating the main content and supplementary content is repeated throughout. In terms of a webpage, the main content should be the focus and purpose of the page. It should be the most prominent content, uncluttered and clear, and helpful to the user. Helpful supplementary content can also increase the quality of the page, but ONLY if it is helpful to the user – and doesn't interfere with the main content.
This practice could be translated to almost any facet of marketing, from in-person communication to leave-behind marketing pieces, online to print. If your main content is crowded or cluttered, overshadowed by unnecessary fluff, or has no purpose or focus – it will at the very least be ineffective, and at the worst it will be damaging to your brand (E-A-T).
Make it a priority to focus your marketing message, organize it in all your media channels, and don't fall prey to unhelpful supplementary content that clouds your voice.
I hope this insight into Google's quality guidelines was helpful, and not only supports your online marketing strategy but your other marketing as well. If you'd like to read the whole Google search quality guidelines document yourself, check it out here. If you have any questions or comments, please share them in the comments, or send us a message on facebook!


The last time I went to our local thrift store, I found this vintage silverplated fruit or bread basket for just $2. My mother-in-law actually was helping out that day — she volunteers in the store sometimes — so she sold it to me.
For just $2, this silver basket was a total steal. You can find them for $20-$30 online.
For now, it looks nice filled with eggs for Easter decor.
Can you believe it's already Easter on Sunday?
I decided to highlight Janel's post, who blogs at A Mom's Take.
She made a yummy glazed Easter bread, with adorable little sprinkles.
Thanks for sharing your post with us, Janel! Feel free to add this "Featured" button to your post or blog.
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Thank you for hosting another GREAT party. Happy Easter.


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Q: How can I find where a Record Type object's field value Pick-list is getting its values from? - Task & Event objects So far when I'm asked to add a value to a record-type picklist I can go into the field of the object, add the value, and then go into the record type picklist and add it to available values.
For this current request I'm asked to add a value to a record type picklist. I see the value is not available in the 'available values' but there is also no field in the object that holds the picklist values that are currently available. I checked global picklists, but that hasn't helped.
What am I missing, and how can I reverse engineer to find where these picklist values are coming from?

A: Okay, So I think I may have not communicated the question properly, but I have the answer so I'm going to answer it.
My issue is someone wanted to add a new value to a 'Product' picklist for the Task object for a specific record type layout. The record type is 'Investment'.
Usually when I see this I go into the fields of the object in question, find the field - (Products) add the value, and go back to the record type specified and add it to the picklist for the record type.
This time around I was not able to find the Products field in the object (Task).
ANSWER: You can create custom fields for task and events however, the process varies in comparison to creating custom fields for other objects. Since events and tasks are both listed as part of the activities object you will need to create your custom fields for task and events by navigating to:
Classic: Setup | Customize | Activities | Activity Custom Fields | New
Lightning:  Gear icon | Setup | Object Manager | Activity | Field & Relationship | New
https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=000205377&r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&type=1
My 'Product' field was in the Activity Object not the Task Object

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A soft spring day here on the Mendocino Coast, a perfect day for planting my vegetable garden. Every year this exercise is a triumph of hope against the reality of cutworms, earwigs, slugs, snails, and the voles that have figured out how to scramble up the sides of my raised beds and lay waste to the crops.
As I hoe and rake weeds and sticks from the rough compost I spread several weeks ago, pictures come into my mind. My mother raking off hoed weeks with the same light touch I am using now. My father filling a deep trench with lawn clippings to make a hot bed for his asparagus. My grandmother bending to pick a harvest of chard. It pleases me to see myself in a line of people who grow their own vegetables.
The snow peas I planted earlier in the season are taking off, but there are gaps in the row where a bird–a robin, I suspect–nipped off the suculent new shoots. I pull out the seed packet and push more seeds into the spaces.
In another bed, garlic is about six inches tall. Nearby is a potato sprouted from one missed last year. I might as well add a few more from the pantry to keep it company: organic Russian Fingerlings, already nicely sprouted. I expect my grandchildren will have fun digging through the earth for the harvest this summer.
Another favorite harvest for kids is carrots. I like to grow a half-long variety. Next to them a row of shallots, since I read somewhere that carrots and onions like to grow together. Kale: I'm trying a mild elephant kale this year. A lettuce mix, of course, and chard, a colorful variety called Neon Lights that does well in this climate. A few fava beans left over from last year. Against the wall of the potting shed, some pole beans, a French variety. It's a more sheltered spot than where I tried them before, unsuccessfully. But I'm willing to gamble: if mildew doesn't get them, the voles probably will. And if neither of these things happen, we'll have elegant beans.
I've left a fallow corner in one of the beds. Maybe I'll buy a tomato start and plant it there. Maybe not. Tomatoes are problematic here; the summers are too cool and foggy. I'll decide another day. Meanwhile, a hot shower and that pleasant tiredness of a day well spent.


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Is our children learning?
It's odd. Reality shows on television are the biggest imports on the small screen since Rupert Murdoch and yet we've taken to them in such a way that they virtually seem desi creations. The west has always had a somewhat jaundiced view of the proceedings that go on to make a reality show winner, whether it is the Hugh Grant-starrer American Dreamz (a sadly underrated and underperforming satire or my current hearththrob Guillaume Canet's first directorial film, Mon Idole).From the wonderful Loins of Punjab Presents to the forthcoming The President is Coming, Indians truly seem to believe in the transformative powers of reality shows. And why not? They've seen losers like Rahul Mahajan go on to become national obsessions (or at least water cooler conversation starters—so who is he going to flirt with next?) and watched Rakhi Sawant build a career out of dancing in and out of shows. If the trend needed any sanctification, it's got it with news that Shah Rukh Khan's next film, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, whose plot was being held more closely than all that lovely American money in Fort Knox, is about an "ordinary jodi" that wins a dance contest and becomes extraordinary. It's supposed to be comedy. Which reminds me of an engaging comedy I was privileged to watch the other night, The President is Coming, adapted by director Kunaal Roy Kapoor from Anuvab Pal's play of the same name. Both men are alumni of the Loins of Punjab Presents school, so clearly Pal has a thing going for reality shows. In The President is Coming, George Bush is coming to visit India in 2006 and one young Indian has to be chosen to shake his hand. Who will it be? It's to be decided by a PR firm, run by a high strung Shernaz Patel. So there's a reality contest of course which involves such wonderful comedic opportunities as reciting Bush speeches (things like "rarely is the question asked: is our children learning" and "Singapore is the capital of Asia") and recognizing American faces (one contestant mistakes Colin Powell for Nelson Mandela and Osama bin Laden for Sri Sri Ravi Shankar). The six contestants are delightfully over-the-top caricatures, but in a good way, including Maya Roy, a divorced best selling novelist who dreams of being India's answer to Hemingway and a rich princess who began a cosmetics business with Daddy's Rs 3 crore and now has a turnover of Rs 5 crore. It's witty, urbane, fun and looks all set to be a hit in a year that has seen the small film stand up to the big noisy blockbusters in the making. The kind of film that makes us feel good that America has elected Barack Obama. Or hey, maybe not. Nancy Reagan and séances anyone?
November 10, 2008 Posted by Kaveree Bamzai
Tags: The President is Coming, Shernaz Patel, Shah Rukh Khan, Rupert Murdoch, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, Nelson Mandela, Nancy Reagan, Mon Idole, Colin Powell, American Dreamz
Hi, shouldn't the title be, 'Are our children learning?'
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About Kaveree Bamzai
Kaveree Bamzai is the Editor of India Today and the monthly magazine, India Today Woman. A recipient of the Chevening Scholarship, she has worked in The Times of India and The Indian Express before this. A graduate of the Delhi School of Economics, she was given the MSA Rao Award for Academic Excellence. The author of one book, Bollywood Today, and two monographs in the Zubaan series on Women in Indian Film, she lives in Delhi with her journalist husband and two sons. She is a member of the CII National Committee for Women's Empowerment and a frequent speaker at media industry forums.
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Aftermath Lounge
Margaret McMullan
US Author
Aftermath Lounge by Margaret McMullan
Today,MBB welcomes back talented author Margaret McMullan, who has released a book featuring stories of the destruction wrought in her part of the world by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. That was a life-changing experience which neither Margaret nor the members of her community will ever forget. This book is a distillation of the experiences of Margaret McMullan and her friends and family. It's also a tribute to the indomitable spirit of the small coastal town of Pass Christian, Mississippi, USA.
MARGARET McMULLAN ON THE WEB:
In Margaret's own words......
Shortly after the storm hit, my husband and I drove down from Evansville, Indiana to Pass Christian, Mississippi.We saw aerial footage of the town and we could see that the roof on my parents' house was mostly intact – that's all we could see. We brought water and a lot of supplies to donate. There was a gas shortage then, and limited cell phone coverage. The closer we came to the town, the more it became like a war zone. The National Guard was there to keep people away, but we got through, thanks to a relative.
The night before we left, my mother told us to forget about everything else -- all she really wanted was the painting of her mother, which had been smuggled out of Vienna during WWII. We had house keys but there were no doors. When we got there, the house was gutted – the storm surge had essentially ripped through the house.
We put on rubber gloves and spent the day sifting through the debris, dragging out any salvageable pieces of furniture. The water had shoved through the closed shutters, plowed up under the foundation and tore open the back walls, bashing around the furniture, sinks, toilets, stoves, washers, driers.
We never did find the painting.
Elizabeth Bishop wrote a wonderful villanelle called "One Art." She wrote about losing small items like keys and an hour badly spent, then she progresses to the greater losses -- her mother's watch, a house, cities, rivers, a continent, and finally, a loved one. "The art of losing isn't hard to master," she starts. "So many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster." I thought of that poem a lot.
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina destroyed 95% of the small coastal town of Pass Christian, Mississippi. With a 28-foot storm surge, the highest recorded in U.S. history, 55-foot waves, and winds reaching 120 mph, the town was wiped off the map—temporarily.
Award-winning author Margaret McMullan saw the destruction firsthand. Her family's historic Gulf Coast home—her father's beloved southern jewel—was one of the houses in Pass Christian devastated by Katrina. Despite the chaos immediately following the storm, McMullan's family was among the first to rebuild and donated to the Red Cross, the Pass Christian fire station, and the Pass Christian library.
During this time, McMullan witnessed small acts of heroism that inspired her to write about the community and its people, and how tragedy shapes our character. In 2010, she was awarded a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship to complete the project.
Born in part out of her family's deep connection to the community, Aftermath Lounge: A Novel in Stories (April 2015, Calypso Editions) releases at the 10-year anniversary of Katrina and comprises fictional vignettes about the people of Pass Christian in the storm's wake. The stories are connected by a setting near to the author's heart—the McMullans' home, which was originally constructed in 1845 and restored by her father numerous times over the years.
Aftermath Lounge is a compelling tribute to the Gulf Coast and resurrects the place and its people alongside their heartaches and triumphs. It is a riveting mosaic that feeds our desire to understand what it means to be alive in this day and age.
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Seattle Times coverage of pot policy, culture and lifestyle.
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Mayor releases plan for medical marijuana in Seattle
Posted by Evan Bush
Update: Here's the final version of this story, as it ran in the paper.
Mayor Ed Murray's office outlined its plan for the medical-marijuana industry this afternoon. The plan calls for licensing of recreational and medical-marijuana businesses and creates regulations for medical-marijuana providers.
The mayor's plan would establish a regulatory system for medical similar to that of the state's recreational system in that it sets standards for testing, packaging and advertising. It would require criminal background checks for business owners and require businesses to allow inspections by the city.
The new system calls for two classes of collective gardens. Class 1 collective gardens would operate with dispensaries; class 2 collective gardens would not and aren't subject to many of the more restrictive requirements such as testing.
The class 1 dispensaries would have to be 500 feet from childcare centers, schools, parks, libraries, transit centers and recreation centers, but there don't appear to be limits for class 2 gardens, which would only allow 45 plants on each parcel.
Class 1 collective gardens are required to test for potency (including CBD), as well as pesticides, mold, fungus and heavy metals. Pesticides and heavy metals tests are typically more expensive than the testing the state's Liquor Control Board requires for recreational marijuana.
The outline also calls for a separate processing license that establishes packaging requirements for edibles and adopts the state Liquor Control Board's rules for concentrates.
Although state-licensed recreational producers would also be licensed by the city, they would not have to adhere to any special requirements.
"We're looking to transmit this to City Council sometime in December," said David Mendoza, who advises the mayor on marijuana policy. "It's on their calendar from that point."
Mendoza said the Finance and Administration department would handle licensing marijuana businesses and be responsible for inspecting and levying fines. Fines would range from $500-$2,000. According to the outline, licenses could be suspended or revoked for "egregious violations of rules."
Mendoza said selling multiple times to a minor or person without an authorization card would qualify as an egregious violation.
Last Friday, State Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles began to promote her plan to rectify recreational and medical marijuana this Legislation session. Jason Kelly, a spokesman for the mayor, said that doesn't mean Murray is giving up on a statewide solution.
"The mayor is hopeful the legislature will act this year, but even if they act quickly there's still a lengthy rulemaking process at the state level," said Kelly. "The mayor wants to have a local ordinance on the books here so we can eliminate the uncertainty that exists for patients and dispensaries."
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Is 'Red Notice' a hit? Sure as Cleopatra's missing egg
The Detroit News (TNS)
"Red Notice" is a smash hit.
How do we know this? Because Netflix says it is.
The streaming giant says the action-comedy, which stars Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot, has become the most watched movie in Netflix history and has logged hundreds of millions of "viewing hours," a metric that may make sense to Netflix but has little value outside of their own data analysis statistics. (For comparison's sake, how many "viewing hours" has, say, "Star Wars" logged, and is it in the centillions?)
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So is "Red Notice" a hit, and what does it mean to be a hit at a time when traditional measurements for what constitutes success are being upended? For decades, the box office has told us how people are voting with their moviegoing dollars. But since the pandemic, theater attendance has been decimated and large segments of movie fans have proven slow to return to theaters. So the weekend numbers, while they still measure moviegoing traffic, don't mean what they once meant.
Do we go by streaming numbers? That would be fun, but Netflix and the other top platforms — Disney+, Amazon Prime, HBO Max, et al. — rarely cough up figures, and if they do, they're dripping in confusing, self-serving corporate speak and touting things like "viewing hours." And there are no across-the-board, apples-to-apples ways for the public to measure streaming traffic across services. Has "King Richard" done decently on HBO Max, or did its box office failure translate to a streaming disappointment, too? We don't know.
So we go by what we're told. "Red Notice" is a smash. Are people talking about "Red Notice?" Are they sharing gifs of it online, are they making memes about it? Is anyone even saying they enjoyed this generic heist film, which is the movie equivalent of a band taking a paycheck and playing a corporate holiday party? It certainly doesn't seem that way, but here we are.
The movie business was hit hard by COVID-19. The pandemic shuttered theaters, and a recent study from film research company the Quorom says that 49% of prepandemic moviegoers are not returning to theaters.
The lockdown got us used to being in our homes, watching content how we want, when we want, on our big TVs in our cozy living spaces. The hassle of going out, of being on a theater's time, of paying outrageous concession prices, heck, of putting on pants, has proven too much for many, and Hollywood will have a hard time luring those customers back and convincing them the theater is a better way.
Prior to the pandemic, Hollywood had already shifted to a superhero-forward business model. That left little room for adult fare, movies about real life with characters that resemble us, the non-superheroes. So audiences were already fragmenting, moving toward streaming series and away from movies. The box office successes — the Marvel movies, for example — were hits to a certain segment of the population, but adults weren't gathering at dinner parties and discussing the finer points of "Ant-Man and the Wasp."
And "Ant-Man and the Wasp" was a hit, a huge one, pulling in $216 million at the North American box office and $622 million worldwide. It was 2018's ninth highest-grossing film. People should have been talking about it. But were they? And are they now?
Maybe hits are more disposable today than they used to be, when the monoculture brought us together and gave us a central rallying point. Now we're all off on separate services, watching separate content, and the audience is so all over the place that there's no longer a middle. YouTuber MrBeast's "Squid Game"-themed video has racked up 141 million views in eight days. That certainly sounds like a hit. Shouldn't more people be talking about it? And are you even subscribed to MrBeast? (You should be, he might put you in one of his videos, and the guy is known for giving out very large sums of cash.)
Views, viewing hours, box office dollars, mainstream chatter: since we can't decide what makes a hit anymore, it's not surprising that we don't know what a hit looks like. Until one really comes along: "Squid Game" was a sensation and captured people's attention and curiosity more than any film has this year, including "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings," the year's highest grossing movie, and including "Red Notice," and its 328.8 million (and counting) viewing hours.
The previous most-watched Netflix title was "Bird Box," which seemed to make more of a cultural dent — remember the blindfold memes? — but that was 2018, and even then audiences weren't as fractured as they are now.
So maybe "Red Notice" is a hit, since a hit today is whatever you say it is. But like the story of Cleopatra's missing egg — c'mon, it's the plot of "Red Notice," which you should already know, since it's such a big hit — things these days are not always what they seem.


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Q: Good Procedure or Function Design This is in reference to the question posted here.  As I would judge it, the question there should be closed simply because it seems to ask why the Borland developers made one thing a function and another a procedure (function that returns a void result).
Now the example was given there of some string manipulation functions that exist in Borland Pascal or Delphi:

S2 := Copy(S1,3,2);

Copies into S2 from S1 the 2 characters starting from the 3rd
  position.
Delete(S,3,2);

Deletes from S the 2 characters starting from the 3rd position.

Now I thought it might be a good discussion on what would be good design decisions regarding devising these things.  I picked up a few rules of good design on what a function prototype should look like beyond the obvious (name reflects function, function result should be atomic, no extraneous variables), but are there any others that should govern a situation such as this one or others?   I really didn't see a good case in Atwood's code book where it was discussed.
Anyway, are there some good rules on how functions should be designed to work?  Barring the specious naming, would it be better to have
S2 := Delete(S1,3,2);

as opposed to
Delete(S,3,2);

?  Are there any other useful considerations or examples to discuss of good and bad function design?

A: As long as some basic language rules hold, either notation can be translated to the other.
S2 := Delete(S1,3,2);

can be rewritten as
Delete(S2,S1,3,2);

if S2 is declared to be pass-by-reference.
And
Delete(S,3,2);

can be rewritten as
S := Delete(S,3,2);

In most languages I can think of, this is the case.  If it's not the case, the argument for notation is clear:  use the one that works.
But assuming one can use either, you asked for useful considerations.  To me, the two guiding ones should be clarity and efficiency.
On clarity, take the first example above.  Personally, from a function, I expect one of two behaviors.  Either it returns all of the work it does in S2 (with no pass-by-reference arguments at all), or it returns all of its work in pass-by-reference args and then returns only a code indicating success or failure.  To do otherwise -- to manipulate some args as work product and then return some other work product -- makes the code impossible to understand.  Now, if there is no question about the success or failure of the function, and if pass-by-reference is more appropriate for the work being done, then procedural syntax is fine.  But in my experience, 90+% of the time, I either want a success/failure indication, or don't want to pass by reference, or both.
On efficiency, take the second example.  Obviously if S or the operations on it are large and complex, pass-by-reference can be more efficient than working on a copy of data and returning only to assign to the same original variable.  And as above, if pass-by-reference is appropriate, and if there is no question about the function/procedure succeeding or failing, then no return is necessary.

A: It seems to me that both styles have a place because they don't do the same thing from a semantics standpoint:
S2 := Delete(S1,3,2);

Assignment implies that there is a subroutine that returns something that can in-fact be assigned to a variable.
Delete(S,3,2);

Implies an in-place mutation by the subroutine without any kind of return value, thus making it a procedure, as procedures lack return values.
Generally speaking, functions should be designed so that they can be completely curried and so that they are conceivably pure. Since the second style of "function" design relies entirely on a side effect to generate its effect, I'd argue that you should only ever use the first style.

A: I'm not sure about other languages, but in Ruby the approach they take is to usually implement both types of method, so that the user can choose which one is best for the situation, but the type that modifies the data (rather than leaving the original data unchanged and returning the changed version) is always suffixed with a '!', so it is clear that the function performs a destructive operation.


While a barbecue may be the standard choice for a Summer gathering, don't under estimate the power of a New England style seafood bake.
Quench your Summer thirst with this delicious libation!
Looking for a fun way to do place cards for your next dinner party?
Summer parties beckon for a sipper that not only is tasty but must perform the double task of bringing a break from the heat.
What happens when a chef from Sweden moves to Malibu, CA and opens a restaurant on a pier? Something magical.
A margarita is a Summer classic and one of America's most popular cocktails for a reason. It's delicious!
Whether you like them soft or crunchy, with salsa or extra guacamole, the taco is a thing of culinary beauty.
To celebrate the launch of our new Island Chic collection, we partnered with San Francisco-based Leo's Oyster Bar.
When hosting a dinner party, aside from the customary waffling on what to serve, we find ourselves always having the internal debate or whether to serve wine or a cocktail.


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• 22 October 2010 - Ulster Hall, Belfast
Ulster Orchestra
Poulenc & Saint-Saëns Organ Concerti with Dame Gillian Weir on the restored Mulholland Organ
Grand organ true star of outstanding performance
It was fitting that the Belfast Festival at Queen's should feature one of the city's greatest musical assets, namely the Ulster Hall's Mulholland Grand Organ which was built by William Hill in 1861-62 during the historic years of the burgeoning Victoriana.
This concert featured not one but two popular organ concertos, played by the distinguished soloist Dame Gillian Weir and the Ulster Orchestra under the direction of its former Principal Conductor Kenneth Montgomery, who was making a welcome appearance in his native Belfast. The conductor, orchestra, timpanist David Openshaw and soloist Dame Gillian displayed a close rapport during the demanding Poulenc Concert for Organ String Orchestra and Timpani, in a finely judged performance. This followed Ravel's Mother Goose, during which the playing hinted at the delights ahead.
In the second half the principal work was the highly popular Saint-Saens Organ Symphony which is so familiar that is usually wafts comfortably across the consciousness with a warm glow, but with short recall.
Last night was different, with maestro Montgomery and Dame Gillian bringing out all the nuances and power of this accessible and still surprisingly beautiful symphony.
This was a performance where everything worked superbly, from the first bars right to the thrilling finish, and it was much appreciated by an enthusiastic audience.
This was an all-round star performance, but perhaps the brightest star was the Mulholland Organ itself which is a hidden treasure, and not heard nearly often enough.
Some people may have expected an encore, but it would have been impossible to better the finale to one of the highlights not only of the Festival, but almost certainly of this orchestral season.
Alf McCreary, Belfast Telegraph, 23/10/2010


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Prof Jan Boeyen's final book launched in 2017
On 2 March 2017, the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship (CAS) at University of Pretoria, hosted the launch of the last book authored by the late Professor Jan Boeyens, The Quantum Gamble. Professor Boeyens was writing and essentially completed the manuscript of the book at the time of his death on 25th August 2015. The manuscript was subsequently finalised and prepared for publication by his colleague and CAS research fellow, Dr Jannie Pretorius. The series of comments from Prof Werner Gries during Prof Boeyens' writing of this work, are sincerely appreciated.
The book focuses on the history of quantum theory, as well as addressing open questions and remaining problems in terms of the plausibility of quantum chemistry and physics. It also provides insights into the theory of matter-wave mechanics. More information about the book, as well as purchasing information can be found here on Springer's website.
The Quantum Gamble marks Professor Boeyens' seventh authored book, following his highly acclaimed sixth book The Chemistry of Matter Waves, also published by Springer in 2013. In addition to these six books, Professor Boeyens also authored near 300 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters.
At the launch of this latest book, two of Professor Boeyens' colleagues were present to mark the occasion: Professor Peter Comba from the University of Heidelberg, Germany; and Professor Emil Roduner (University of Stuttgart), who is a visiting Professor at the CAS at the University of Pretoria. Writing about Professor Boeyens' contribution to science, Professor Comba remarked in the preface:
"Jan Boeyens' books discuss the fundamental basis of the physics of matter and quantum theory; their basis is a deep knowledge of the history of science, and they discuss features in quantum theory that are not much remembered and not directly included in modern computational chemistry—Jan's books and ideas are not mainstream; they are disputable and therefore are interesting and scientifically important" (Boeyens, 2017).
The presentation Professor Comba gave at the book launch can be found here.
In his reflection on the book, Professor Roduner further emphasised the importance of this book, saying:
"We normally consider physics and chemistry to be exact sciences, implying intuitively that the laws of science had been derived from first principles. This is not true. All the laws of natural science, such as those of thermodynamics, are empirical, based on experience, and true only in the sense that nobody has found convincing evidence of the contrary. … So where is the gamble that the title of this book talks about? It comes in when we have a set of observations that we want to rationalise, and in order to do so we invent various models and analyse whether one of them can reproduce or predict the observations."
A copy of the full statement by Professor Roduner on the book can be found here.
The foreword, preface and table of contents of the book is availble here and the epilogue of the book can be found here.
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Pooja Ramachandran is a South Indian film actress, VJ(video jokey) and model. After her studies, she participated in beauty pageants, winning the 'Miss Coimbatore 2004' title.She was the runner up in Miss Kerala 2005 contest. She then went on to become a VJ at SS Music before Starting career into acting.Now, She entered as a wild card Telugu bigg boss season2.
Pooja Ramachandran is the daughter of an army officer. She studied visual communication at the CSI Bishop Appasamy College of Arts and Science in Coimbatore.Pooja is a malayali from Tamilnadu, born and raised in Bangalore.
Pooja first acted in an advertisement when she was eight years old. Before the Miss Coimbatore title she already done some assignments in Bangalore and Coimbatore. Pooja had also played a cameo in the Jayaram-Soundarya starrer Yathrakarude Sradhakku.
In February 2006, Pooja became a VJ at SS Music after she along with Anuj Gurwara, Purnima Maudgil and Gibran were selected as the winners out of 3000 contestants in SS Music's pan-India talent hunt show VJ Factor 2. She hosted shows like PCO, Gana Bajaana, Connect and Cinema Central. Later she hosted the show Ulagam Muzhuthum Paranthu Paranthu on Jaya TV. She was also a contestant in Anu Alavum Bayamillai becoming the winner of the first season, and acted in the thriller serial Kanchana, both on STAR Vijay.
After 2012, she became a full-time actress, signing films across Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam. She was seen in minor roles in the romantic comedy Kadhalil Sodhappuvadhu Yeppadi, its Telugu version Love Failure and the thriller Pizza in 2012. The following year, she played supporting roles in the Telugu film Swamy Ra Ra and the Malayalam films Lucky Star and D Company. With regard to her performance in Swamy Ra Ra, Sify called her "perfect", while Nowrunning.com's Veeyen in his review of Lucky Star wrote that she "deliver(s) an outstanding performance" and "brings in such astounding believability to her character of an NRI". Her first 2014 release, Adavi Kaachina Vennela, saw her playing a homemaker.
Pooja Ramachandran Married Craig Gallyot.


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Q: laravel ajax return 405 I'm trying to send data with ajax t controller and i get 405 error
Code
JS
$(document).ready(function(){
        $('body').on('click', '.addbundlebutton', function(e){
            $.ajaxSetup({
                headers: { 'X-CSRF-TOKEN': $('meta[name="csrf-token"]').attr('content') }
            });
            e.preventDefault();
            var data= [];
            $("input:checkbox[name=bundleProducts]:checked").each(function(){
                data.push($(this).val());
            });

           // data are like ['41', '46'] in console //

            $.ajax({
                type: "post",
                url: "{{ url('testadd-bundle') }}",
                data: JSON.stringify(data),
                success: function (data) {
                    console.log(data.success);
                    $(".addbundlebutton").remove();
                },
                error: function (data) {
                    console.log('Error:', data);
                }
            });
        });
    });

Route
Route::post('/add-bundle', 'frontend\BundleController@add');

Controller
public function add(Request $request){
  //testing data...
  $data = $request->all();
  return response()->json($data);
}

Screenshot

Any idea?

A: You use this URL: url: "{{ url('testadd-bundle') }}",
But your route is set to be:
url('/add-bundle')

So try that instead. 405 means method not allowed, which means you try post on a get route for example.


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Q: Can't Reproduce a video stream with AVPlayerController I have a TableViewController and when I click any cell I call prepareforsegue function to load an AVPlayerViewController that should reproduce the stream passed through the same function. When I click on a tab the function is called right, the video player is displayed but it doesn't initialize the urlCanale variable.
class HomeController: UITableViewController {
...
override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, didSelectRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) {

        let nuovoCanale = URL(string: menuItems[indexPath.row].stream_url!)
        self.performSegue(withIdentifier: "riproduciCanale", sender: nuovoCanale)

    }

    override func prepare(for segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: Any?) {
        if segue.identifier == "riproduciCanale"{
            if let nextViewController = segue.destination as? VideoPlayerController{
                nextViewController.urlCanale = sender as? URL //Or pass any values
                print("cambio canale")
            }
        }

This is the AVPlayerViewController Code, the variable urlCanale everytime is null :
class VideoPlayerController: AVPlayerViewController {
    var urlCanale : URL!

override func viewDidLoad() {
    //super.viewDidLoad()
    if(urlCanale == nil){
        print("is nuuulllll")
        urlCanale = URL(string: "https://www.google.it")
    }
    let playerItem = AVPlayerItem(url: urlCanale)
    player?.replaceCurrentItem(with: playerItem)
    player?.play()
}


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Become a donor of Zilker Theatre Productions and be the first in line for all of the best benefits. With every donation of $150 or more, you'll receive an exclusive invitation to our Blue Suede Shoes Preview Party on Thursday, July 5 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. And with donations of $300 or more, you'll receive your invitation plus all of the perks of The Hillside!
Join us at the Blue Suede Shoes Preview Party to experience:
Catered picnic-style dinner from Austin favorite, Newk's Eatery
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Parratt v. Taylor: Unauthorized Deprivations and the Content of an Adequate Remedy
David Zensky
In 1981, in Parratt v.Taylor, the United States Supreme Court ruled that a person who has been wrongfully deprived of property by a state official cannot bring a federal constitutional claim based on the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment if state law provides an adequate remedy. While the Supreme Court subsequently held that negligent state conduct that invades a fourteenth amendment interest can never amount to a constitutional deprivation, Parratt still governs intentional and reckless state action. The Parratt decision was fueled both by the general perception that the federal court dockets are seriously overburdened with section 1983 actions and by then-Justice Rehnquist's long-standing desire to clear the federal courts of meritless, or meritorious yet trivial, suits against state officials. Parratt's intended – and actual – effect was to funnel a significant percentage of civil rights claims into state courts and administrative claims tribunals. These claims are then subject to state law remedies, immunities, defenses and procedures.
Prior to the Court's decision in Parratt, it was generally understood that an individual deprived of a property or liberty interest by a state official had a federal action for damages under section 1983, based on the fourteenth amendment's due process clause. The availability of state law remedies was irrelevant. After Parratt, however, no federal constitutional due process claim can be brought where the alleged deprivation was "random" and "unauthorized"' if an adequate state remedy is available "random" or "unauthorized" deprivation occurs when a defendant-state official acts contrary to, or outside of state-defined authority and discretion. Pre-Parratt doctrine, however, was left intact for cases where the deprivation occurred through the operation of "established state procedures." These cases involve actions or procedures which the state or relevant state entity authorized. Since the state itself has contravened the plaintiff's rights, the remedies provided by the state are viewed as irrelevant to the occurrence of an actionable constitutional deprivation.
Courts and commentators agree that Parratt has been an extremely difficult decision to decipher and apply. But more important than its imprecision is the ruling's potential impact on the capacity of the fourteenth amendment's due process clause to protect citizens from state officials' reckless and intentional unauthorized abuses of state authority. After Parratt, it may be consistent with due process for citizens to be intentionally deprived of life, liberty or property by a state official's intentional but unauthorized and unlawful state action and yet be denied a remedy.
From a civil rights perspective, the problem with Parratt is not that some injured plaintiffs are forced to litigate their claims in state court, since where the inquiry into adequate state remedies is applied as formulated in this Comment, those with meritorious claims will receive some compensation or relief. Limited to non-egregious deprivations, Parratt is defensible. The problem is that through an incorrect application of the inquiry into the adequacy of state remedies, some plaintiffs with meritorious claims will receive no redress at all. This scenario of "rights without remedies" occurs when a federal court has dismissed the plaintiff's case, assuming that adequate remedies exist under state law, but the plaintiff subsequently goes uncompensated because state substantive or procedural law turns out to be more restrictive than its federal counterpart. Typically, the offending state provision is an immunity which grants the state official more protection than she would receive under federal law. Different rules governing the construction of pleadings, qualitatively different measures of damages, or the imposition of filing fees beyond the means of indigent plaintiffs may also prevent or limit redress for the plaintiff. "If these cases [where plaintiffs with meritorious claims receive no redress] are correct, then the scope of constitutional protection of life, liberty, and property could be very narrow." This Comment argues that state court remedies that are marked by certain restrictive substantive or procedural rules cannot be considered adequate state remedies consistent with either the Court's opinion in Parratt or the mandate of the fourteenth amendment.
In Parratt and subsequent relevant decisions, the Supreme Court has made it clear that the "adequacy inquiry" has both substantive/remedial and procedural components. Adequate state remedies can range from informal administrative claims processes to fully endowed tort litigation, and in some cases, include simple appellate review. With respect to procedure, these remedies must satisfy the minimum requirements of traditional procedural due process and provide that extra measure of procedural protection demanded of state systems when federal rights are to be adjudicated. With respect to substantive law, adequate state remedies must guarantee relief sufficient to make the plaintiff "whole" upon proof of a constitutional deprivation by a state actor of a protected entitlement to life, liberty, or property.
Under this formulation of adequacy, an inquiry into the facts of each case and the corresponding state law is mandated. General rules, however, may be formulated to deal appropriately with some clear cases. On the one hand, states may impose reasonable procedural requirements, such as a one-year statute of limitations or a notice-of-appeal requirement, and a plaintiff's failure to comply with such requirements, barring relief at the state level, will not render an otherwise adequate remedy inadequate. Conversely, insurmountable obstacles to redress, such as absolute immunities or filing fees beyond the victim's means, will preclude a determination that a state offers adequate postdeprivation process. In between these extremes, where the state system does offer some type of relief, but the relief is subject to a moderately restrictive procedural or substantive rule, such as a limitation on damages or a harsh antiplaintiff pleading rule, the relief should be considered adequate only where the offensive feature is not "inconsistent" with the underlying constitutional right to due process of law.
Section I of this Comment will first discuss the Parratt doctrine itself and its general treatment in the lower courts. It will also consider the post-Parratt Supreme Court cases that today shape the constitutional claim for an unauthorized deprivation without due process. Section II will begin with a close look at how the adequacy test has been applied in the "easy cases," where clearly adequate relief was apparently available for the plaintiff under state law. It will also analyze the due process implications of these cases in the broader context of general constitutional and policy-oriented concerns. Section III will scrutinize the "hard cases," where courts recognize that no postdeprivation remedy is available under state law, and ascertain whether the judiciary's resolutions are consistent with Parratt and, especially, the mandate of the fourteenth amendment. Section IV will develop the concepts of "substantive" and "procedural" adequacy and respond to scholarly commentary and cases which have maintained that immunity-barred state remedies are in fact "adequate." This Comment will conclude that Parratt imposes a sensible regime on section 1983 due process claims as long as state postdeprivation remedies adequately protect constitutional rights.
Chambers v. Mississippi: The Limits of Due Process--The "Voucher Rule" and the Exception for Hearsay Declarations against Interest
Examines the Supreme Court's application of due process in Chambers v. Mississippi and the confrontation clause issues present in the case.
Alan H. Paley
Due Process for Children: A Right to Counsel in Custody Proceedings
Argues for children's rights to representation that advocates for their own preferences in all forms of custody proceedings.
Paul K. Milmed
Due Process in State Capital Cases: The Right to Counsel for Indigent Defendants beyond the Initial Appeal as of Right
Argues that indigent defendants sentenced to death should be provided counsel until execution or commutation of the sentence.
Alan M. Freeman


CCD stands for Charge Coupled-Device. It is also a good idea to use plans or blueprints of your house; you can mark locations and measure distances more accurately this way. A great advantage of bullet cameras is their small size and integrated design. Even though CCTV cameras need light to pick up images and can't get a clear picture in the dark, that's not a problem if you have an infrared illuminator. By flooding the area with invisible infrared light, IR illuminators let you keep an eye on intruders who mistakenly think nighttime is the right time to break in. Aren't there plenty of perfectly good, modern digital security cameras that aren't wireless? You can determine the resolution by the cameras TVL datum. Wireless Surveillance Cameras CCTV systems are used mainly in large public areas like: banks, malls, train stations, sport stadiums and in almost every large store. The application of CCTV security has not changed very much over the past years, but on the other hand, the tools and equipment have changed significantly. Therefore many customers shopping for complete CCTV monitoring and recording systems are confused by such a veriaty of available products.
As the protector of your family you are expected to know the answers to such questions. based on intended implementation and requirements.
These cameras may be packaged in a small case (Mini Cameras) or dome (Mini Dome) or simply sold unpackaged, for mounting by the purchaser. They were imaged on the station's CCTV cameras. As with any other security camera, you can choose from a wide selection of bells and whistles: audio, motion sensors, infrared filters, computerized pan/tilt/zoom, night vision capabilities, and even automated alarm-triggering functions. Assess your security needs, decide which features are important to you, and shop accordingly. You should also take into account your own interactions with the camera. The goal of this article is to guide buyers toward best possible and most economical type of CCTV equipment, Every CCTV system is as good and reliable as its weakest component. CCTV stands for Closed Circuit Television. A basic spy camera for home security use is usually based on three main parts, each performing a different function. They can easily be relocated without having to rely on nearby power or communication sources. However, higher density 1/4" and 1/3" CCD chips can now produce as good an image as many 1/3" or 1/2" chips.
All the benefit of a high-resolution camera is affectively sacrificed by limited capability of the monitor. Once again, before buying a CCTV system or a spy camera it is always wise to consult a professional.


My idea was to write an app the listens for teh note 'A' (not just A-440, but other octaves as well), allow them to be detected wth a little meter, and also recorded when it detects an 'A'.
this recording can then be mailed out or stuck on a website that collects these recordings.
And now Only A has been submitted. It'll be free, because .. it will be!


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How Technology Enables Education in Pakistan
Written by M. Farhan Janjua	on August 23, 2011 . Published in Africa's mobile future on Middle East, Pakistan.
Educational outreach in Pakistan is at an all time low and has reached a critical stage. Yet despite all the mismanagement and the lack of immediate measures on the part of government, there's one thing that has a huge potential to drive and enable education on the national level – and this one thing is technology.
Though Pakistan claims to have a 50% literacy rate, it's a very narrow definition of "literacy" which says that anyone who can read and write his or her name is literate! With the passage of time, there have been numerous campaigns which tend to keep reminding us of the dire situation of education in the region. One such campaign was initiated early this year and is called The Education Emergency . This campaign aims to use technology in order to create mass awareness about how severe the consequences will be if immediate action is not taken.
Below is just one of several videos they have on their website which tells how critical the situation has become.
Educationalists have begun to realize the importance of technology in making education available to far flung areas. There have been many such start-ups that recognize the true potential of technology and make use of it to educate the larger population.
Another example is VEFA Pakistan or Virtual Education For All. They use technology to deliver lectures and course programs in the national language. They have a couple of projects including an e-school which uses YouTube to deliver lectures.
We also have the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project in Pakistan working on a pilot project basis. OLPC advocates using technology for massive educational outreach across the country.
Acknowledging the great potential of everyday technology, the government of Pakistan has also jumped on the bandwagon and launched a national university for higher education which uses technology to make access to education easy for everyone. Called the Virtual University , it has proven a huge success.
Following the trend, one of the largest of Pakistan's universities, the Allama Iqbal Open University which has been providing remote learning to far flung rural and urban areas of the country, has also moved to make some revolutionary reforms to the programs they offer and use extensive technology for further enhancements. Such measures have proven to be very successful across the whole country.
Nethertheless, despite all the great measures that have been taken, the country has still failed to properly address the education emergency which has now reached a critical stage. The reason is that the measures undertaken are not enough to address the needs of the country's ever growing population. As a rough estimate puts the population of Pakistan at over 180 million people, providing quality higher learning opportunities to the masses is indeed a daunting challenge. Even though there's been a lot of buzz which keeps alerting the government to the threat of the education emergency reaching a truly critical stage, the government does seem to have other priorities to tend to and just keeps on repeating that it's doing everything in its power.
Even so, the private sector still maintains that not enough is being done and that there's room for a hell of a lot more improvement if only new means to educational access were explored. For example, did you know that Pakistan has the highest mobile penetration rate in the whole of South Asia with over 108 million mobile phone subscribers as of April 2011, as reported by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority. In the period 2009-2010 alone, no less than 151.6386 billion SMS messages were sent. Pakistan even has over 20 million internet subscribers also in far flung areas and their number is growing. Another unexplored avenue in Pakistan is the social media scene. Pakistan's largest ICT magazine CIO Pakistan gives more detailed statistics in this tremendous video.
In turning to new approaches, people have now begun to explore using the medium of SMS for education. SMS education is now being experimented with in new projects in the Punjab and Sindh provinces of Pakistan. The World Bank blog reports an interesting case:
"In February, almost 150 third year students at Asghar Mall College in Rawalapindi (note: 'third year' in this context would be roughly the equivalent of the first year at university in the United States) for whom authorities had mobile phone numbers on file began participating on a voluntary basis in a daily vocabulary quiz exercise delivered by SMS. These young men — from middle to lower middle class backgrounds — are sent a simple multiple choice question. Texts are addressed to each student individually, using the equivalent of a 'mail merge' function that will be familiar to anyone who has had to send out 'blast' emails or faxes). They reply via SMS, and then receive an automated response, based on their answer. In this response, their answer is repeated, a notation is made about whether the answer given was correct or not, and the correct answer is incorporated into a sample sentence."
and concludes:
"This sort of thing is no substitute for school, of course. But, given current test messaging rates in Pakistan — a country with some of the fastest growth in recent years in text messaging in the Asia-Pacific region, as well as some of the lowest tarif rates — it is quite cheap. It is "on-the-go". It is supplemental to what is being taught in the classroom, and increasingly easy to do, given the technology tools and code base out there. While Pakistan may not see high household penetration rates of desktop computers connected to the Internet for many, many years to come, most every household already has access to a small connected 'computer' of a different sort — the mobile phone — and this project is seeking to capitalize on this reality."
Once again, there's still room for improvement and for exploring all the resources we have. The E-Learning Association is one such organization which creates awareness about technology, education and government policy megatrends.
Tags: developing countries, education, mobile learning, pakistan, Technology


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Current Event Connection, Geography In the News, Main
Ancient DNA Links Native Americans
The Clovis culture, which developed in North America about 13,000 years ago from populations originally from eastern Asia, appears to be the ancestor of all Native Americans. Geneticists sequenced DNA of the only known Clovis skeleton and found markers shared with indigenous people from North, Central, and South America. (Reuters)
Use our resources to better understand genetics and ancient human migration.
The blue arrows on this map show the icy land bridge spanning "Beringia," where populations from Asia migrated more than 14,000 years ago. Recent genetic analysis of the remains of a member of the 12,500-year-old Clovis culture revealed markers shared with Beringian populations in Siberia, as well as Native American populations such as the Maya.
Map by National Geographic
Discussion Ideas
Read the Reuters article, then look at our terrific map above. See if you can modify the map based on information found in the article. Use our 1-Page Map of North America or our MapMaker Interactive!
Where would you label Beringia on the map?
Asia, what is now Alaska, and the the Bering Land Bridge
What route would you associate with ancestors of the Clovis culture?
The blue "Overland route"
What route would you associate with the Solutrean culture?
The dotted "Possible route from Europe"
The Anzick-1 (Clovis) site is just outside Wilsall, a small town in southwestern Montana. Where would you put this on the map? (Our 1-Page Map of the U.S. might help put Montana in perspective.)
Pretty close to where the central blue arrow descends from the ice
If you were a geneticist studying the Anzick boy's DNA, what populations would you compare it to? Ancient or modern? Asian or the American?
All of the above! The initial study of the Anzick boy's genome was compared to several populations.
The Anzick boy's DNA was compared to the 24,000 year-old Mal'ta boy from Lake Baikal, Russia. The two shared about a third of their genes.
The Anzick boy's DNA was also compared to the 4,000 year-old Saqqaq Paleo-Eskimo from Greenland. (Fun fact: The ancient Eskimo genome had closer genetic ties to contemporary Han Chinese populations than it did to the Anzick boy. What?)
The Anzick boy's DNA was compared with contemporary DNA from an individual from the Maya population, indigenous to Central America.
The Anzick boy's DNA was compared with contemporary DNA from an individual from the Karitiana population, indigenous to the western Amazon basin in Brazil.
Take a look at the discussion questions from this earlier blog post about genetics. For example:
Geneticists are people who study genes and the way they mutate and vary over time. Geneticists studying ancient human migrations often compare and contrast their findings with the work of archaeologists and paleoanthropologists, who study physical artifacts left by ancient cultures. Watch this video of geneticist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Spencer Wells talking about "The Human Journey." Skip to about 2:15, where Wells talks about the limitations of archaeology and paleoanthropology.
Why do you think archaeology and paleoanthropology are nicknamed "stones and bones" by Wells? Were there "stones and bones" studied by paleoanthropologists in the Anzick/Clovis site?
Archaeology is often associated with the study of ancient tools and pottery. Many of these artifacts are made of rock or clay—stones. Paleoanthropology is associated with fossils of ancient humans or human ancestors—bones.
Yes, the "stones and bones" of the Anzick site are extremely important. The Anzick boy's skeleton was covered in red ochre, a type of mineral. He was buried with about 125 artifacts, including projectile points (arrowheads) and tools made from antlers. These literal "stones and bones" immediately identified the site as Clovis.
Apply online to get an educator discount for the Genographic Project. Students can participate in an international scientific study and learn about their own ancient ancestry.
One high school class used the Genographic Project to create a travel blog of regions visited by their ancient ancestors.
Students at Cornell University used the Genographic Project to see how many ancient migration paths were represented at the school.
Classes participating in the Genographic Project can join Geno Threads, a worldwide project that allows students and teachers to share results with one another, communicating via email and video conference. (Email GenoThreads@ngs.org to learn more.)
Read more about this fascinating topic at Nat Geo News!
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paul1234567891011 says:
I'm so proud of my grandma right now. That's why I love hiking in snowy fields eating smoked meats.
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Reblogged this on American Indian Independent Broadcasting Network.
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cathrena says:
There is a story waiting to be read about our ancestors' origins, struggles and achievements in all of us, and we have only been able to read it with more details than ever before through studies like this.
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Die fünf Sinne; Das Gehör (1872-1879)
Hans Makart (Austrian, 1840 - 1884)
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Hans Makart was a 19th-century Austrian academic history painter, designer, and decorator. He is best known for his influence on Gustav Klimt and other Austrian artists, but in his own era he was considered an important artist himself and a celebrity figure in the high culture of Vienna and attended with almost cult-like adulation.
Makart was the son of a chamberlain at the Mirabell Palace, born in the former residence of the prince-archbishops of Salzburg, the city in which Mozart had been born. Initially, he received his training in painting at the Vienna Academy between 1850 and 1851 from Johann Fischbach. While in the Academy, German art was under the rule of a classicism, which was entirely intellectual and academic—clear and precise drawing, sculpturesque modelling, and pictorial erudition were esteemed above all. Makart, who was a poor draughtsman, but who had a passionate and sensual love of color, was impatient to escape the routine of art school drawing. For his fortune, he was found by his instructors to be devoid of all talent and forced to leave the Vienna Academy.
He went to Munich, and after two years of independent study attracted the attention of Karl Theodor von Piloty, under whose guidance, between 1861 and 1865 he developed his painting style. During these years, Makart also travelled to London, Paris and Rome to further his studies. The first picture he painted under Piloty, Lavoisier in Prison, though it was considered timid and conventional, attracted attention by its sense of color. In his next work, The Knight and the Water Nymphs, he first displayed the decorative qualities to which he afterwards sacrificed everything else in his work. His fame became established in the next year, with two works, Modern Amoretti and The Plague in Florence. His painting Romeo and Juliet was soon after bought by the Austrian emperor for the Vienna Museum, and Makart was invited to come to Vienna by the aristocracy.
The prince Von Hohenlohe provided Makart with an old foundry at the Gusshausstraße 25 to use as a studio. He gradually turned it into an impressive place full of sculptures, flowers, musical instruments, requisites and jewellery that he used to create classical settings for his portraits, mainly of women. Eventually his studio looked like a salon and became a social meeting point in Vienna. Cosima Wagner described it as a "wonder of decorative beauty, a sublime lumber-room". His luxurious studio served as a model for a great many upper middle-class living rooms.
Makart became the acknowledged leader of the artistic life of the Vienna, which in the 1870s passed through a period of feverish activity, the chief results of which are the sumptuously decorated public buildings of the Ringstraße. He not only practised painting, but was also an interior designer, costume designer, furniture designer, and decorator, and his work decorated most of the public spaces of the era. His work engendered the term "Makartstil", or "Makart style", which completely characterized the era.
Salzburg's Makart Square, or Makartplatz, was named after the painter.
More Artworks by Hans Makart
The Death Of Cleopatra (1875)
Venice pays homage to Caterina Cornaro (1872-1873)
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1881-1884)
Entwurf zum Festzug 1879 – Die Fleischselcher (1879)
The Nile Hunt (1876)
Sinnbild Der Fruchtbarkeit (1870)
Entwurf zum Festzug 1879 – Die Bierbrauer (1879)
Entwurf für einen Palast; Fassade (1883)
Snow White Sleeping
Die fünf Sinne; Das Gesicht (1872-1879)
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Q: I can't create a bootable OSX Mavericks Install USB Drive I've downloaded Mavericks from the App Store, repartitioned a 32GB USB key, and followed the instructions. Specifically, I ran:
sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app

Here's the output. As you can see, it fails with an error:
Ready to start.
To continue we need to erase the disk at /Volumes/Untitled.
If you wish to continue type (Y) then press return: Y
Erasing Disk: 0%... 10%... 20%...100%...
Copying installer files to disk...
Copy complete.
Making disk bootable...
Couldn't mount dmg /Volumes/Install OS X Mavericks/Install OS X Mavericks.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg (error code 112)Mount of outer dmg failed.
Done.

Help?

A: It turns out that the Installer Image did not download correctly. To address this I deleted "Install OSX Mavericks" from the Applications folder and then re-downloaded it from the App Store.

A: I had the same problem with a 16Gb USB.  I tried it twice. First time I got error 112, and then an error 110 when I tried again.
I was about to download it again, but I tried a different USB 16Gb, and it worked with the same app file.  So my tip, before you go downloading it again, try another USB brand.

A: I had same problem and when I ran:
hdiutil verify /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg

On the usb, I got
Checksumming Protective Master Boot Record (MBR : 0)…
Protective Master Boot Record (MBR :: checksum failed with error 1000.
...............................................................................................................................................................
calculated CRC32 $00000000, expected   CRC32 $BE5D6293
hdiutil: verify: checksum of "Install OS X El Capitan.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg" is INVALID
hdiutil: verify failed - image data corrupted

So the error can be either on the installation or the thumb drive itself (bad drive).

A: Apple did screw up. Intentionally or not...
I had purchased Mavericks before, so I was able to re-download it in 2023 from within Snow Leopard Partition. No matter what I did whether installing it to a drive while in Snow Leopard or creating a USB with createinstallmedia
It would always tell me that the image is corrupt. When I tried to mount the InstallESD.dmg directly it would come up with "The DMG image is corrupt" or "The DMG image is unrecognized" error. Well yeah! because it is not actually a DMG image! It is a XAR archive. just do:
file /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg

And see what the file actually is.
file /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg
/Applications/Install OS X Mavericks.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg: xar archive compressed TOC: 11017, SHA-1 checksum
macmini@MacMinis-Mac-mini ~ % xar -tf  /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg
Distribution
InstallMacOSX.pkg
InstallMacOSX.pkg/Bom
InstallMacOSX.pkg/Payload
InstallMacOSX.pkg/Scripts
InstallMacOSX.pkg/PackageInfo
InstallMacOSX.pkg/InstallESD.dmg
Resources
Resources/ar.lproj
Resources/ar.lproj/Localizable.strings
Resources/ar.lproj/VolumeCheck.strings
Resources/ca.lproj
Resources/ca.lproj/Localizable.strings
Resources/ca.lproj/VolumeCheck.strings
Resources/cs.lproj
Resources/cs.lproj/Localizable.strings
Resources/cs.lproj/VolumeCheck.strings
Resources/da.lproj
Resources/da.lproj/Localizable.strings
Resources/da.lproj/VolumeCheck.strings
Resources/Dutch.lproj
Resources/Dutch.lproj/Localizable.strings
Resources/Dutch.lproj/VolumeCheck.strings
Resources/el.lproj
Resources/el.lproj/Localizable.strings
Resources/el.lproj/VolumeCheck.strings
Resources/English.lproj
Resources/English.lproj/Localizable.strings
Resources/English.lproj/VolumeCheck.strings
Resources/fi.lproj
Resources/fi.lproj/Localizable.strings
Resources/fi.lproj/VolumeCheck.strings
Resources/French.lproj
Resources/French.lproj/Localizable.strings
Resources/French.lproj/VolumeCheck.strings
Resources/German.lproj
Resources/German.lproj/Localizable.strings
Resources/German.lproj/VolumeCheck.strings
Resources/he.lproj
Resources/he.lproj/Localizable.strings
Resources/he.lproj/VolumeCheck.strings
Resources/hr.lproj
Resources/hr.lproj/Localizable.strings
Resources/hr.lproj/VolumeCheck.strings
Resources/hu.lproj
Resources/hu.lproj/Localizable.strings
Resources/hu.lproj/VolumeCheck.strings
Resources/id.lproj
Resources/id.lproj/Localizable.strings
Resources/id.lproj/VolumeCheck.strings
Resources/Italian.lproj
Resources/Italian.lproj/Localizable.strings
Resources/Italian.lproj/VolumeCheck.strings
Resources/Japanese.lproj
Resources/Japanese.lproj/Localizable.strings
Resources/Japanese.lproj/VolumeCheck.strings
Resources/ko.lproj
Resources/ko.lproj/Localizable.strings
Resources/ko.lproj/VolumeCheck.strings
Resources/ms.lproj
Resources/ms.lproj/Localizable.strings
Resources/ms.lproj/VolumeCheck.strings
Resources/no.lproj
Resources/no.lproj/Localizable.strings
Resources/no.lproj/VolumeCheck.strings
Resources/pl.lproj
Resources/pl.lproj/Localizable.strings
Resources/pl.lproj/VolumeCheck.strings
Resources/pt.lproj
Resources/pt.lproj/Localizable.strings
Resources/pt.lproj/VolumeCheck.strings
Resources/pt_PT.lproj
Resources/pt_PT.lproj/Localizable.strings
Resources/pt_PT.lproj/VolumeCheck.strings
Resources/ro.lproj
Resources/ro.lproj/Localizable.strings
Resources/ro.lproj/VolumeCheck.strings
Resources/ru.lproj
Resources/ru.lproj/Localizable.strings
Resources/ru.lproj/VolumeCheck.strings
Resources/sk.lproj
Resources/sk.lproj/Localizable.strings
Resources/sk.lproj/VolumeCheck.strings
Resources/Spanish.lproj
Resources/Spanish.lproj/Localizable.strings
Resources/Spanish.lproj/VolumeCheck.strings
Resources/sv.lproj
Resources/sv.lproj/Localizable.strings
Resources/sv.lproj/VolumeCheck.strings
Resources/th.lproj
Resources/th.lproj/Localizable.strings
Resources/th.lproj/VolumeCheck.strings
Resources/tr.lproj
Resources/tr.lproj/Localizable.strings
Resources/tr.lproj/VolumeCheck.strings
Resources/uk.lproj
Resources/uk.lproj/Localizable.strings
Resources/uk.lproj/VolumeCheck.strings
Resources/vi.lproj
Resources/vi.lproj/Localizable.strings
Resources/vi.lproj/VolumeCheck.strings
Resources/zh_CN.lproj
Resources/zh_CN.lproj/Localizable.strings
Resources/zh_CN.lproj/VolumeCheck.strings
Resources/zh_TW.lproj
Resources/zh_TW.lproj/Localizable.strings
Resources/zh_TW.lproj/VolumeCheck.strings

So what you need to do is:
cd tmp
xar -xf /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg
ls -l
total 40
-rwxr-xr-x   1 macmini  staff  10301 Sep 10  2014 Distribution
drwx------   7 macmini  staff    224 Dec 31  1969 InstallMacOSX.pkg
drwx------  35 macmini  staff   1120 Dec 31  1969 Resources
-rwxrwxrwx   1 root     staff   4671 Sep 29 09:53 mUtility.log

And the actuall InstallESD.dmg MOUNTABLE is inside the InstallMacOSX.pkg
To Recreate the   Install Mac OS X Mavericks Installer follow this:
pkgutil --expand /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg ~/Mavericks
cd ~/Mavericks/InstallMacOSX.pkg
tar -xvf Payload
mv ~/Mavericks/InstallMacOSX.pkg/InstallESD.dmg ~/Mavericks/InstallMacOSX.pkg/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/SharedSupport
rm -rf /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/
mv ~/Mavericks/InstallMacOSX.pkg/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app /Applications

To Create a bootable USB Installer follow this:
Format an 8GB USB drive with HFS+ GPT partitioning and label it Untitled. Create the USB installer:
sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app

Checksumming the InstallESD.dmg:
hdiutil verify /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg
Checksumming Driver Descriptor Map (DDM : 0)…
     Driver Descriptor Map (DDM : 0): verified   CRC32 $82881B3D
Checksumming  (Apple_Free : 1)…
                    (Apple_Free : 1): verified   CRC32 $00000000
Checksumming Apple (Apple_partition_map : 2)…
     Apple (Apple_partition_map : 2): verified   CRC32 $E3F140E2
Checksumming disk image (Apple_HFS : 3)…
...............................................................................
          disk image (Apple_HFS : 3): verified   CRC32 $0D5460FF
Checksumming  (Apple_Free : 4)…
...............................................................................
                    (Apple_Free : 4): verified   CRC32 $00000000
...............................................................................
verified   CRC32 $B65198C1
hdiutil: verify: checksum of "/Applications/Install OS X Mavericks.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg" is VALID

Check codesign signature:
 codesign -dv --verbose=4 /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg
/Applications/Install OS X Mavericks.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg: code object is not signed at all
macmini@MacMinis-Mac-mini ~ % codesign -dv --verbose=4 /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app
Executable=/Applications/Install OS X Mavericks.app/Contents/MacOS/Install OS X Mavericks
Identifier=com.apple.InstallAssistant.Mavericks
Format=app bundle with Mach-O thin (x86_64)
CodeDirectory v=20200 size=303 flags=0x200(kill) hashes=7+3 location=embedded
Hash type=sha1 size=20
CandidateCDHash sha1=cd59e2a7acca04c95d7e4b27488122dd11aa5b68
CandidateCDHashFull sha1=cd59e2a7acca04c95d7e4b27488122dd11aa5b68
Hash choices=sha1
CMSDigest=32a7926f598b4e52c7b68f0c7e0719afc9f7d6c9b2fceadb8398a44507d10ed5
CMSDigestType=2
Page size=4096
CDHash=cd59e2a7acca04c95d7e4b27488122dd11aa5b68
Signature size=4169
Authority=Apple Mac OS Application Signing
Authority=Apple Worldwide Developer Relations Certification Authority
Authority=Apple Root CA
Info.plist entries=30
TeamIdentifier=APPLECOMPUTER
Sealed Resources version=2 rules=12 files=948
Internal requirements count=1 size=124

Edit: Unfortunately as of February 2023 the created USB disk could not proceed past:

Only this web available installer works.
There is another way around that convoluted installer and the steps are described here.

A: Close the "Disk Utility.app" and the "Finder" before execute the command. It works for me! :)

A: its important to know that you have to close the finder windows and the disk utility or any program that might be using the ElCapInstaller flash drive, because if they are being used you, this is what happens:
Copying installer files to disk...
Copy complete.
Making disk bootable...
Mount of outer dmg failed.
Done.
and you want this to happen
Copy complete.
Making disk bootable...
Copying boot files...
Copy complete.
Done.


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How to Help Prosecute Bush for Two Minutes
Leave a Comment / October 17, 2008 October 17, 2008
By David Swanson
Vincent Bugliosi's best-selling book, "The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder" may be about to become more than a book. A viable candidate for attorney general of Vermont has committed to appointing Bugliosi as special prosecutor to immediately indict Bush, Cheney, Rice, Tenet, et alia, if she is elected. Her name is Charlotte Dennett, and she and the future of the rule of law in the world need you to send every dime you can spare to her campaign.
Bugliosi struggled to find a publisher, despite his record of writing best-sellers, had to go out of the country to find a company that would make the audio version of the book, and his book has not been reviewed in a single major newspaper, although the New York Times wrote an article about the media blackout of this book (including by the New York Times) that had nonetheless become a New York Times bestseller. In fact, even those voices in the corporate media that people assume would have Vince on their shows (Maddow, Olbermann, Stewart, Colbert) have all refused. They love talking bad about Bush, but not suggesting that something might be done about it. They were the same way with impeachment. But inernational media outlets from around the world are intensely covering what Bugliosi and Dennett are doing and the prospect of seeing Bush indicted for murder.
And, even in the United States, word keeps spreading and the book keeps selling. One fan of the book has set up a site where you can fund his effort to mail a copy of the book to every attorney general and district prosecutor in the country. Other groups of supporters, like this one have generated local media coverage by sending a letter to their local prosecutor. ConvictBushCheney.org provides on this page the book's basic argument, a sample letter to send to a prosecutor, and a list of places in the country where things are happening.
Vermont, as many of us have grown accustomed to, is once again leading the way. Kurt Daims and other activists there have developed a way that all of us around the country can take a few minutes to help elect Charlotte Dennett apart from sending our money. Here's how:
1. Call anyone you know in Vermont. You can also copy pages from a Vermont phonebook at the library. OR
2. Go to http://zabasearch.com , http://411.com , or http://whitepages.com and get phone numbers of people in Vermont. Try calling people whose names start with the same letter of the alphabet as your own.
3. Say something like: "Hello. My name is _________. I'm from ________ . Have you heard of Charlotte Dennett? She's the brave and honest Progressive Party candidate for Vermont attorney general who's going to prosecute Bush. I hope you vote for her!" Some people might need to hear, "No, I'm not selling anything and I'm not a member of any organization." Maybe you can mention her web site. It's http://charlottedennettforattorneygeneral.com or http://dennettforag.com
There are only a handful of people in Vermont, and maybe a couple of cows, who do not want to see Bush in prison. Vermont has lost more troops per capita in Iraq than any other state. Two towns in Vermont have passed ordinances requiring the arrest of Bush or Cheney if they ever set foot there. Vermont is the only state Bush has never dared to visit as president. So, be confident in your calling. You're calling an entire state of people like yourself. If you reach people who are too busy or uninterested, move on. If you reach people who are enthusiastic, ask them if they can call their friends. Can they contact the campaign and volunteer to put up signs? Can they write a letter to the editor? Can they hold a fundraiser for Charlotte and invite her to speak? Can they send her a check?
More information you'll want to know:
Dennett will protect consumers and vigorously investigate inflated prescription drug pricing, credit card rip-offs, predatory bank lending, gas price gouging, and other forms of consumer fraud.
Dennett will protect workers from discrimination, such as discrimination based on race, color, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability and HIV status.
Dennett will strengthen whistleblower laws to protect both public and private sector employees against retaliation.
Dennett will protect the environment and oppose the relicensing of Vermont Yankee.
Dennett will reform sex-offender laws so that the police and prosecutors have better tools for catching sex offenders.
Contributions can be made online or sent to:
Charlotte Dennett for Attorney General
Whom to Vote For?
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