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Police Investigating The 'Suicide' Of A Reporter Who Broke Clinton Tarmac Story
By Ryan Saavedra
Jun 14, 2021 DailyWire.com
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Law enforcement officials in Alabama are investigating an apparent "suicide" by the reporter who broke the bombshell story in 2016 that former President Bill Clinton secretly met with then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch on a Phoenix tarmac in the run up to the presidential election while his wife, then-candidate Hillary Clinton, was under federal criminal investigation.
"At 8:13 a.m. Saturday, the Hoover 911 center received a call of a person down at a residence on Scout Trace. Hoover police and fire personnel arrived to find the 45-year-old [Christopher] Sign dead," AL.com reported. "Hoover police Lt. Keith Czeskleba said the death is being investigated as a suicide."
Sign, who played football at the University of Alabama, moved to a local ABC News station in Alabama in 2017 after working at a news station in Pheonix.
While there, Sign broke the major 2016 presidential campaign news that Bill Clinton met with Lynch on the tarmac of Phoenix's Sky Harbor Airport while the then-AG was investigating the use of a private e-mail server by Hillary Clinton, the former president's wife and the Democratic presidential candidate at the time.
Sign went on to write a book about the encounter titled "Secret on the Tarmac."
Sign told Fox News last year that he "knew something had occurred that was a bit unusual" on the tarmac.
"It was a planned meeting," Sign said. "It was not a coincidence."
"[The book] details everything that they don't want you to know and everything they think you forgot, but Bill Clinton was on that plane for 20 minutes and it wasn't just about golf, grandkids, and Brexit. There's so much that doesn't add up," he said. "He then sat and waited in his car with the motorcade, her airstairs come down, most of her staff gets off, he then gets on as the Secret Service and FBI are figuring out 'How in the world are we supposed to handle this? What are we supposed to do?'"
Sign, who said that he received death threats over his reporting, said that the story "isn't about Right or Left, Republican or Democrat, it's about right and wrong and journalism."
"My family received significant death threats shortly after breaking this story," he said. "Credit cards hacked. You know, my children, we have code words. We have secret code words that they know what to do."


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TERENTYEV Avenir Afanasyevich
Avenir Afanasyevich Terentyev (05.12.1938, Velikiye Luki, Russia – 09.12.2003), a scientist in the field of technical sciences. Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (1996). Doctor of Engineering Sciences (1990), Professor (1991).
— Graduated from the Moscow Peat Institute (1961).
— Since 1961 - Engineer, Junior Researcher, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor of the Kalinin Polytechnic Institute, since 1974 - Senior Researcher, since 1990 - Deputy Director for Scientific Work of the Institute for Problems of Use of Natural Resources and Ecology of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (until 1990 - Institute of Peat of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR).
— Since 2003 - Chief Researcher of the same institute.
Scientific research on the physico-chemical mechanics of natural dispersed systems and rocks. He developed theoretical foundations and methods of directional structure formation in peat and sapropel, peat soils, brown coal, peat-based compositions for the production of various materials and fuels. Established the general patterns of structure formation of concentrated systems based on rocks under mechanical and physico-chemical effects. Revealed the mechanism of a sharp decrease in moisture conductivity and mobility of cations in peat systems with the introduction of anionic surface-active substances (surfactants) and their enhancement in the case of cationic surfactants, due to changes in the electrokinetic and structural-rheological properties of the boundary layers. He showed the applicability of the main colloidal-chemical principle of controlling the physicomechanical properties of dispersed systems using surfactants to peat compositions. He substantiated the possibility of increasing the adhesive bonds in the peat-coal composition due to the incorporation of humic substances of peat into the structure of the surface layers of coal during its mechanical activation.
Author of more than 140 scientific papers, incl. 8 monographs, 33 inventions.
Major papers:
Практикум по физике и химии торфа. Калинин, 1971 (в соавт.).
Физико-химические основы торфяного производства. Мн.: Наука и техника, 1983 (в соавт.).
Физика и химия торфа. М.: Недра, 1989 (в соавт.).
Структура и свойства формованной торфяной продукции. Тверь: Созвездие, 2004 (совм. с В.И. Суворовым).
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By analyzing the effect of modulus of epoxy and modulus of filler particles on the thermal conductivity of thermal conductive adhesives (TCA), this paper concludes, in contrast to intuition, that the stiffer epoxy will generate a larger contact area, and the "soft" epoxy with modulus of 0.5GPa will create the largest contact area, hence the highest thermal conductivity. Therefore, it is advisable to adopt softer epoxy in TCA. On the other hand, this paper finds that if the shrinkage of epoxy is low, i.e. 1% linear shrinkage, fillers composed of a mixture of Ag flakes and certain high stiffness material will cause a higher thermal conductivity, i.e. 7% larger than that of pure Ag fillers. This suggests that with low shrinkage epoxy, it is advisable to mix Ag flakes with high stiffness particles, e.g. Diamond or SiC. However, when linear shrinkage of epoxy is high, i.e. 3%, the highest thermal conductivity is achieved by using pure Ag fillers. Therefore, in such cases it is not advisable to use Bi-model. © 2010 IEEE.


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New Fuel Battery Has 3 Times More Energy Than Gasoline!
Ovidiu Sandru
It's not breaking news anymore, but some scientists from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and others, led by Stuart Licht, discovered a battery that could kick out fossil fuels at the chapter of energy storage capacity.
Since they were invented, batteries could only be used in small-scale applications, such as powering your watch, or your laptop, or giving short time bursts, like spinning an engine to start it. Modern times batteries, based on Li-Ion have more power, but their energy storing capacity still cannot reach the one of diesel or gasoline. It's easy to understand, in these circumstances, why we are still using these fossil fuel based products.
Let's get back to our subject: the battery invented by these fellows is half a battery, half a chemical fuel cell.
Its negative electrode, or cathode, is made from vanadium boride. This serves double-duty as a fuel too. Unlike the flowing fuel of a fuel cell, the material is held internally, like the anode material of a battery.
The vanadium boride reacts with a constant stream of oxygen, as in a fuel cell, provided by the positive electrode, or anode. This brings in a supply of air from outside.
The scientific (chemical) explanation can't be described here, as it involves calculations, graphs and many assumptions. You may find it here, if you're good at understanding chemical reactions (I'm not keen at that, I admit).
The cell has a theoretical energy capacity of 27 kilowatt hours per litre, compared to 9.7 kilowatt hours per litre for gasoline. But both approaches are limited by practical factors to smaller figures.
Licht says his new system would likely have a real, usable energy capacity of around 5 kilowatt hours per litre. "But that's two-fold higher than the practical storage capacity of gasoline," he says.
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Ovidiu May 25, 2009 at 10:46 pm
INVENTOR, please take into account that the graph has a vertical logarithmic scale, so look again…
INVENTOR May 25, 2009 at 10:17 pm
I saw the bar graphs, the battery has little more power capacity than gasoline and if 1/3 power density is practical
the article is not accurate.
justwatching March 13, 2009 at 5:05 am
Reread the numbers. 9.7kwh for gasoline and 5 kwh for this new batery. Still has a way to go yet.
William Carr February 14, 2009 at 5:20 pm
"Licht says his new system would likely have a real, usable energy capacity of around 5 kilowatt hours per litre. "But that's two-fold higher than the practical storage capacity of gasoline," he says."
Okay. Except that gasoline is liquid and can be pumped in quickly for refueling when necessary.
You didn't mention if this cell needs pure hydrogen: if it does, we're back to the hydrogen storage challenge.
If this was a methanol fuel cell, that would be much easier to recharge, but the energy density would be just a bit lower than gasoline.
I think the problem is that you haven't considered energy density as separate from energy throughput.
Just watching September 24, 2008 at 2:48 am
Can anyone afford this or is it just more B.S.?
E85 Ethanol Increases Pollution and Risk of Human Diseases


I went down to Wyadup this evening to try for a shot with the stars in the sky. However when I got there there were about 20 whales going past. They appeared to be a lot of humpback calves and a few mums. The calves were having fun practising breaching. (I will post the result of the star shots later).
These are magnificent creatures. When I went to school in this area we never saw whales. They were killed before they got past Albany. Eventually whaling ceased, but only when the estimated number of whales (probably humpbacks) left was less than the whaling company's annual catch. In other words if they hadn't stopped then they probably would have within a couple of months due to lack of whales. It is fantastic to be able to see the numbers increasing each year, and just to be able to go down to the coast and see sights like this. I hope they never again get hunted to the brink of extinction.
This entry was posted on October 30, 2011 by ianwiese. It was filed under Landscape, Wyadup and was tagged with breaching, calves, coast, Whales, Wyadup.
"when time is yours" 🙂 great shot.


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POFMA'ed
A dataset of every electronic communication subject to Singapore's fake news legislation
The POFMA Use Before Nomination Day (v2020.06.30)
by POFMAed June 30, 2020 June 30, 2020 No comments
A note on this dataset's methodology and sources
The sources used in data collection are government reports (POFMA Office press releases and Gov.sg Factually articles). Media reports and direct sources (the communications themselves) are also used to verify the actor type and accessibility of the communications. A full description of the dataset's methodology can be found here, and the full dataset can be downloaded here.
Note that this is how the dataset defines reports, uses and communications:
A report is a government press release issued to announce a use of the legislation.
Within a single report, one can find multiple distinct directions or orders under POFMA. Each of these are classified as a distinct use of POFMA.
Each direction or order can affect multiple distinct electronic communications, such as a Facebook post or website article.
According to Report 1, a Facebook post is the subject of a correction direction, issued to Individual A.
According to Report 2, this same Facebook post is also the subject of a targeted correction direction, issued to Facebook.
The POFMA'ed dataset would thus track that Facebook post as one communication, subject to two distinct POFMA uses, according to two distinct reports.
The POFMA use on 29 June (invoked by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs against Mr Alex Tan's Facebook pages and Facebook) was a significant first for a number of reasons.
It marks the first time POFMA has been invoked after parliament has been dissolved for the upcoming General Election, and is thus the first time POFMA has been used by anyone that is not a Minister. It is also the first time Mr Alex Tan, recipient of no less than 14 POFMA uses prior to 29 June, has ever complied with the legislation.
Under POFMA, ministers are unable to issue orders under the legislation after a Writ of Election is issued. Instead, alternate authorities (senior civil servants whom the respective ministers themselves designate) become able to issue orders. This use of POFMA marks the first time an alternate authority (in this case: Chee Wee Kiong, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) has exercised this power.
Mr Alex Tan has deleted both communications which are subject to this use of POFMA, citing the election season as the reason for this unprecedented act. He has steadfastly refused to do so (or include the correction notice required by the directions given to him) in his previous communications.
In light of the election season, Academia.sg has made available 'the Dogma behind Pofma', a chapter from Cherian George's Air-Conditioned Nation Revisited: Essays on Singapore Politics. The essay offers an insightful look at what POFMA says about the next generation of Singapore's ruling party. This, and many other worthwhile reads on Singaporean politics, are on sale via Ethos Books. A full list of Academia.sg's journal articles and book chapters for the general election are available here.
This has been a very quiet month on the POFMA front. These uses (3 in all) mark the only ones in the month of June 2020, after a very active April and May. Having written this as Nomination Day draws to a close, this researcher will be watching keenly at if and how the legislation will be used during the General Election.
If you're interested in the data behind POFMA: The full POFMA'ed dataset is available here.
Inclusion of 1 new report, 3 new POFMA uses and 2 new communications.
Improving the Dataset
Are you thinking of using this dataset? As a student, I'm keen on improving this dataset's accuracy and useability to others, and am always eager to hear your thoughts and feedback. If you have thoughts, comments or suggestions, please do direct them towards POFMAed@gmail.com. A big thank you to the academics and journalists who've been giving me your feedback and advice. It is greatly appreciated!
Who is affected by POFMA? (v2020.06.01)
Explainer: What is POFMA?
This dataset was last updated on 8 October 2020.


The informative essay embodies the essence of education: educating others about a specific topic. Although their purpose is to inform another party, they ultimately don't present the writer's opinions nor try to persuade readers to follow such presumed opinions.
To define a topic or term.
To compare and contrast a topic.
To analyze information associated with a topic.
To provide a 'how to' analysis of a topic.
In other words, the main goal of an informative essay is to 'inform or educate readers about any topic in several ways.
Explain something that many readers don't know.
Present new research about a specific topic.
Define complex terms in simple words.
Compare and contrast contesting perspectives.
Analyze how cause and effect relationships work.
Show readers how to solve problems or apply knowledge to solve a problem.
The structure of an informative essay comes in many forms. But, that alone shouldn't trouble college students who need to write an informative essay.
Writing An Informative Essay – Who Could Help?
Informative essays should be 3 to 5 pages long.
Informative essays should have at least 4 reputable sources.
Informative essays should be written in a formal, academic writing style.
Informative essays should contain information presented in an objective way devoid of opinion or persuasion.
The topic shouldn't be too general or broad—it should cover a specific subject or area of interest.
The topic should have enough information available for research.
The topic should be interesting and appropriate enough for readers.
The topic should ultimately interest the student writing the paper.
Before we go, here are a few topics that students can use to start writing their informative essay. Although general in nature, they represent a good starting point to help students find more specific topics for their essay.


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const {arrayOf, shape, string} = React.PropTypes

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      description: string,
      year: string,
      poster: string,
      trailer: string
    }))
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  getInitialState () {
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      searchTerm: ''
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A lot has changed since 2003: At the time, Beyoncé was still in Destiny's Child, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston were still Hollywood's golden couple, and we were three years away from discovering Taylor Swift. One thing that's unfortunately remained the same, though, is the terror and political unrest that exists on a global scale—a fact that has led the Black Eyed Peas to reboot one of their most popular songs.
A lot has changed since 2003: Beyoncé was still in Destiny's Child. Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston were still Hollywood's golden couple. And perhaps most jarring of all, we were still three years away from discovering Taylor Swift.
But it's what hasn't changed that led the Black Eyed Peas to reboot one of their most popular songs. In June 2003, the Black Eyed Peas released hit song "Where Is the Love?" in response to the 9/11 terror attacks. Its lyrics addressed issues including terrorism, racism, gang crime, pollution, war, intolerance, and violence against LGBT people.
Now, weeks before the 15th anniversary of 9/11, the Black Eyed Peas have just released an updated version of their famous song. It's definitely gotten a makeover in terms of the music itself (although they collaborated once again with the no-longer-fresh-off-NSYNC Justin Timberlake again). The revamp also brings in new vocals from Mary J Blige, Nicole Scherzinger, Audra Day, Jessie J, The Game, Usher, and A$AP Rocky.
The new video uses graphic, poignant, black-and-white photography to focus attention on the recent terror attacks in Europe, the crisis in Syria, the shootings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, and the killing of five police officers in Dallas.
"I remember when the attack in Paris happened, people would say 'We need 'Where Is the Love?' again,'" Will.i.am says in the preview video. "And then Belgium happened and then Turkey and then Orlando and then Philando and Alton before him, and then Dallas. Everyone was calling on us like, 'We need that song again.'"
It also features a laundry list of other celebrities, including Vanessa Hudgens, Kendall Jenner, DJ Khaled, Quincy Jones, Jaden Smith, and Shailene Woodley. All proceeds from the new song will go to the i.am.angel foundation.


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Alexandre del Valle (nascut, el 6 de setembre 1969 a Marsella, França) és un científic polític, periodista, columnista polític i assagista francès, que està interessat en qüestions de l'islam, del terrorisme i de la geopolítica del món musulmà.

Alexandre del Valle va néixer en el si d'una família franco-italiana. Va estudiar a l'Institut d'Estudis Polítics d'Ais de Provença, la Universitat Montpeller 3 Paul-Valéry i l'Institut de Ciències Polítiques de Milà. És llicenciat en Seguretat, Defensa Nacional i Història de les Doctrines Polítiques. Va defensar una tesi en la història contemporània a la Universitat Montpeller 3 Paul-Valéry amb el títol "L'Occident i la segona descolonització: el Indigenismo i l'islamisme de la Guerra Freda fins avui". Al principi de la seva carrera, va treballar com a funcionari a França, després va treballar al Parlament Europeu a Brussel·les, abans de crear la seva empresa de consultoria. Actualment és professor de geopolítica i de relacions internacionals a l'Escola de Comerç - La Rochelle.

Assagista
És autor de set llibres, traduïts en portuguès, italià i serbi. En el seu primer llibre "L'Islamisme i els Estats Units: una aliança contra Europa", estudia l'explotació per part dels serveis dels Estats Units dels mujahidins de l'Afganistan en la seva lluita contra la Unió Soviética. En l'últim llibre "El caos de Síria", estudia les causes profundes del conflicte sirio.

Va defensar la idea d'acostament entre Rússia i Europa per crear un nou bloc geopolític que va cridar "Pa-Occident", necessari per combatre l'amenaça islamista.

Descriu l'islamisme com un tercer tipus de totalitarisme, dues altres sent el nazisme i el comunismo. En la seva obra Del Valle analitza la convergència internacional neo-totalitària "Preconitzant la lluita de les civilitzacions i de les religions, declarant després la guerra al món judaic-cristià en nom dels 'desheretats' de la resta del planeta, [l'islamisme revolucionari] sedueix tant als nostàlgics del tercer Reich pagà, decidits a erradicar el judaisme i el cristianisme, com als partidaris de la falç i el martell, disposats a combatre l'Occident 'burgès' i el 'capitalisme'. ".

Alexandre del Valle descriu el procés de declinació de la importància d'Occident que continuarà en l'any 2016. Segons Del Valle, "no es tracta de desintegració o desaparició dels països del 'primer món', però a la palestra internacional seus valors ideològics perdent la seva autoritat indubtable. sorgiran nous pols ideològics i geopolítics, que intenten alliberar-se de l'hegemonia d'Occident ". Del Valle creu que "Rússia exerceix el paper principal en aquest procés de redistribució del poder, ja que" no va a permetre EUA que desestabilitzi als governs legítims en qualsevol racó del món, amenaçant als interessos russos ".

Obres
 La Maronité politique', Le système confessionnel libanais et la guerre civile, IEP d'Aix-en-Provence, 1992 (mémoire).
 Statut légal des minorités religieuses en terres d'Islam, Faculté de droit d'Aix-en-Provence, 1993 (mémoire).
 La Théorie des élites, Faculté de Sciences politiques de Milan, 1993 (mémoire de DEA en histoire des doctrines politiques et des institutions politiques).
 Islamisme et États-Unis, une alliance contre l'Europe (Islamismo y Estados Unidos, la alianza contra Europa), L'Âge d'Homme, 1997 (). versions italienne et serbo-croate.
 Une idée certaine de la France (ouvr coll), Sous la direction d'Alain Griotteray, 1999, France-Empire, 1998.
 Guerres contre l'Europe : Bosnie, Kosovo, Tchétchénie, Les Syrtes, 2001 (). (versions espagnoles, brésilienne, portugaise, italienne et serbo-croate).
 Quel avenir pour les Balkans après la guerre du Kosovo, Paneuropa/L'Âge d'Homme, 2000.
 Le Totalitarisme islamiste à l'assaut des démocraties, Les Syrtes, 2002.
 La Turquie dans l'Europe : un cheval de Troie islamiste ?, Les Syrtes, 2004 ().
 Le Dilemme turc, ou les vrais enjeux de la candidature d'Ankara avec Emmanuel Razavi, Les Syrtes ().
 Frères musulmans. Dans l'ombre d'Al Qaeda, Jean-Cyrille Godefroy, 2005 (), préface d'Emmanuel Razavi.
 Perché la Turchia non può entrare nell'Unione europea, Guerini ed Associati, Milan, 2009 (préface de Roberto de Mattei).
 I Rossi, Neri, Verdi: la convergenza degli Estremi opposti, Lindau, 2009, Turin (préface Magdi Allam).
 Pourquoi on tue des chrétiens dans le monde aujourd'hui ? : La nouvelle christianophobie, Maxima Laurent du Mesnil 2011 (préface Denis Tillinac)
 Le complexe occidental : Petit traité de déculpabilisation, L'artilleur, Toucan Essais, 2014.
 Le Chaos syrien, printemps arabes et minorités face à l'islamisme, Dhow, 2014.

Referències

Periodistes francesos
Assagistes francesos
Alumnes de la Universitat de Milà
Alumnes de la Universitat de Montpeller III - Paul Valéry
Alumnes de l'Institut d'Estudis Polítics d'Ais de Provença
Escriptors marsellesos

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Last week, normally cheerful New York Times wine critic Eric Asimov published one of the most negative pieces I've ever read from him, saying that South African Chenin Blanc isn't very good right now.
Over the weekend, James Molesworth, who covers South Africa for Wine Spectator, took exception to Asimov on Twitter.
They bickered for a while and it entertained those of us paying attention, because the wine writing world rarely has anything interesting to disagree about. We've got the 100-point scale, and alcohol levels ... and ... and ... frankly, that's it. Considering how interesting wine is, our discussions about it online are generally snooze-worthy. Seriously: who CARES that you liked the '06 better than the '07?
I think both of them have a point: that's why the debate was worth following. In San Francisco we rarely see South African wines on wine lists, and most of the ones I've had in the last few years would support Asimov's position.
I don't doubt that Molesworth, who is supposed to taste the entire country's output, could pinpoint some good wines. But can I buy them easily? As my recent experiences with South African wines has been more like Asimov's, should I put the effort into seeking them out? The De Morgenzon Chenin Blanc that Molesworth mentions is at K&L for $28.99. Maybe Molesworth's right, maybe he's not, but $29 is a lot to pay for a Chenin Blanc on faith when I don't currently have much.
As for Molesworth's point that 20 wines isn't a fair sample, how many wines does he think consumers sample? I read East Coast writers all the time who taste 4 or 5 California Chardonnays and make sweeping proclamations about the whole state. I'm going to defend Asimov on this point: 20 readily available wines are way more than most people, even most writers, would try.
I heard this from an unnamed source: South African vintners were outraged by Asimov's article, and were sending emails and faxes and making phone calls asking, essentially, "How can we fix this?" Complain to Asimov's boss? Contact Tony Soprano?
I wish the answer were simple. For some large wineries criticized by Asimov, it is simple: Make better wines.
For others, they have to realize that just getting their wines to Molesworth isn't enough anymore. The US is not England; South African wines are not considered mainstream here. Most US retail stores don't go outside the mainstream. Sommeliers are the ones who do, and they couldn't care less what Wine Spectator thinks.
If South African wineries are serious about growth in the US market, they need to get some high-quality, reasonably priced wines in front of sommeliers. Don't blame Asimov for a message you needed to hear.
And thanks to James Molesworth for giving us something interesting to discuss other than the 100-point scale. I give your tweets an 89.
I thought both guys came out of it looking not-so-great, but I've still got mad respect for both of them.
That was quite enjoyable you are absolutely correct in promoting this little spat, the wine world needs more controversy not less to come to the surface.
I like Asimov's questions especially regarding the vintage and the use of air-emitting closures. He didn't dismiss S.A. Chenin Blanc, he wrote about ONE tasting and only 3 or 4 wines from a good vintage. I like that you and Joe Roberts enjoyed the spat part of it so much it inspired you to post. Obviously, now I want some S.A. Chenin Blanc reviews from you two. Try some '08's and '09''s, OK? I'll join you.
Alana: Molesworth comes from a strong position, but he also essentially throws into question about 90% of all blog posts. Think about it: If tasting 20 wines isn't enough for someone to have an informed opinions, how many of us EVER have informed opinions?
Asimov the tweeter (message-wise) doesn't really match up with Asimov the book author. I'm guessing the awkward tweets are more likely the real Asimov. I know very few wine drinkers who have the time and resources to drink it all in, so of course you find yourself relying on the Asimov's and Molesworth's to open it all up to you. If I had to rely on only one? I'm relying on the guy who thinks a sample of 20 is too small. I found Asimov very defensive, which is always revealing in a spat.


YOur safe Aff..I'm heading for home soon Nice to see your still trying to convince people a bit of black crayon make sa nice alloy..
Well that shouldn't make any difference? What's the deal?? are you not to blame anymore or something?
What a difference a regular long journey makes! Over the last 10 days, I have had to make a daily round trip of 80km. By calculation, the average consumption is 9.22l/100km (30.64mpg). This is a great improvement over my usual short local shopping trips (See the overall average in this message footer). The onboard computer actually shows slightly poorer consumption at 9.4l/100km (30.05mpg).


Pastor Chris Fowler heard Dr. Jack Hyles preach on a CD his sermon "THIS KIND" on 10-16-06 and God spoke to his heart about starting and independent Baptist church. He was a Southern Baptist pastor at the time and resigned his church to start an independent Baptist church in Simms, TX.
It has been 5 years since he and his family started the LIGHTHOUSE BAPTIST CHURCH in East Texas. He struggled and three years ago came to see me about about his ministry. I gave him a copy of all of my books and we held a revival meeting for him. He is a personal soul winner.
I noticed Sunday several new couples and God gave 3 professions of faith and 1 baptism of a young husband. This is as country as you can find, but God is working in a special way.
After the service two young boys asked about whether they two could be saved like the others. It was a very tender thing to see. I remember when I was age 11 and after a Sunday night service I went home and was scared because I did not want to go to Hell. Pastor Marvin Owen preached a red hot sermon on Hell and I went to the altar, but no one opened the Bible to tell me how to be saved. This was an American Baptist church.
I went home that night and before going to bed I was standing in the hall crying. My mama asked me what was wrong and I told her I was going to Hell. She started to cry and told me to go into my bedroom, get on my knees, and ask Jesus to save my soul. I did what she said and it was like a ton of weight was lifted off of my soul. GOTTA LOVE A SOUL WINNING PARENT!


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Sets a word or block of words to specified value(s).

## Usage:

**set word value**

## Arguments:

**word** - Word or words to set (must be: any-word block)

**value** - Value or block of values (must be: any-type)

## Refinements:

**/any** - Allows setting words to any value.

## Description:

If the first argument is a block of words and the value is not a block, all of the words in the block will be set to the specified value. If the value is a block, then each of the words in the first block will be set to the respective values in the second block. If there are not enough values in the second block, the remaining words will be set to NONE

The /ANY refinementallows words to be set any datatype including those such as UNSET! that are not normally allowed. This is useful in situations where all values must be handled.

```
set 'test 1234
print test
1234
```

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set [a b] 123
print a
123
```

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print b
123
```

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set [d e] [1 2]
print d
1
```

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print e
2
```

## Related:

[**get**](http://www.rebol.com/docs/words/wget.html) - Gets the value of a word.
[**in**](http://www.rebol.com/docs/words/win.html) - Returns the word in the object's context.
[**unset**](http://www.rebol.com/docs/words/wunset.html) - Unsets the value of a word.
[**value?**](http://www.rebol.com/docs/words/wvalueq.html) - Returns TRUE if the word has been set.


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Entertainment & Music, Faith & Spirituality, LGBTIQ
Liberation theology for Vicky Beeching, evangelical, Christian music star, theologian, as she comes out as lesbian
14th August 2014 Katy	Leave a comment
"It's taken all my courage, and all these years, for me to finally do this interview", tweeted Vicky Beeching, "a theologian who spends holy days with the Archbishop, whose God-fearing lyrics are sung by millions in America's Bible Belt, [on her] coming out as a lesbian".
It's taken all my courage, and all these years, for me to finally do this interview: http://t.co/BKEkAuCEWS — Vicky Beeching (@vickybeeching) August 13, 2014
Katharine Welby-Roberts, the daughter of Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, tweeted her support calling her brave, brilliant and beautiful.
The spectacularly brave and brilliant @vickybeeching http://t.co/N6QqnbLaD1 Love you and your beautiful face. — Katharine W-R (@kwelbyroberts) August 13, 2014
"She will be liberated. She may well, through her commentating work, become a key figure in the liberalisation of Anglicanism. And she will be crucified", writes Patrick Strudwick in the Independent.
A fraught 'coming out' journey
She began to speak out in support of same-sex marriage, a year ago, and since then her loving Christian American Bible belt fan base has been delivering abuse at her, saying she is deceived by the devil. Well the devil does have all the best tunes!
She's also taken flack from some anti-religious members of the gay community, from reading the comments (not always an advisable thing to do) on the Pink News report of her coming out.
At 12 she was attracted to other girls and at 13 sought forgiveness, as an older teenager she experienced deliverance of the "demon of homosexuality".
I had a similar path, a clandestine same-sex relationship at 15, repentance and forgiveness, vice-President of the University Christian Union, where we were very definitely anti-abortion and anti-gay, deliverance at 22 of my own demons of "a gender mix up in the womb", years working for a church, as a missionary, then a theologian in a Bible School. The views I held at college I've had to repent of and apologise for, but it has made me more openminded and gracious towards those for whom homophobia has often been a cover up of something internalised before they themselves come out. I do believe in redemption and change, just not sure God, if he exists, is always the agent. Be the change.
In all my study of theology, Hebrew and Greek, I never really got why , until I came out, I felt such a disconnect from the God of the Church and the practice of evangelical Christianity versus the all-loving, minority accepting, class and division challenging Jesus of the Gospels. The Old Testament passage that has always stuck with me is, from of all books, Leviticus: "Love thy neighbour as yourself", that's the same book that appears on a surface reading to condemn same-sex practices. But the Hebrew and the history are more complex, interesting and liberating.
Beeching, herself, ended up in America, first Nashville, Tennessee then California mid-Prop 8 anti-equal marriage rallies, at which she performed her music, whilst knowing inside she didn't agree with the message. She had record contracts with EMI's Christian sub-division which included a "morality clause" which would have precluded her from speaking out had she been ready to at the time. This was 2008.
Then she was hit by a life-changing illness that included extensive chemotherapy. Many fundamentalists would no doubt point to this being a judgement from God, not my kind of God. However, the doctors did say it could have been triggered by trauma – Vicky felt this to be the stress of her hidden sexuality.
She'd not met an 'out' gay or lesbian till the age of 30. When I came out at 40, I'd never met another trans person, to my knowledge, but by then a couple of friends from university Christian Union days had come out as gay. With my own revelation, which resulted in divorce and a mid-life crisis, I soon made contact with what transpired to be more than a couple of old CU friends, who had come out as lesbian, bisexual or gay. We'd all repressed it for decades. Some, to my knowledge, still are. Some are 'out' but still trying to "rid themselves" of homosexuality through reparative therapy.
Beeching began to explore the possibility of coming out and met with Ruth Hunt, the now new chief executive of Stonewall, who suggested she met with some other 'out' lesbians including BBC newsreader Jane Hill, sports presenter Clare Balding and her former Radio 4 newsreader wife, Alice Arnold. "They said, 'Be yourself and everything will follow.'"
But "being yourself" is very hard with evangelical baggage and a lifetime of repression. Coming out is hard enough when school and society can be so homophobic and transphobic, but it is doubly hard when you have faith, and belong to a denomination that sees your sexuality or gender identity as sin. The pressure to conform can lead to mental health problems and deny you your free existence for years.
She has been called "the bravest" to come out, because of her conservative evangelical Christian background, by Alice Arnold in the Telegraph, but can now look "forward to writing music again, for the first time in her life with no secrets to hide."
LGBT Theology
Those following Beeching's blog may have seen the signs before this week's coming out. She has been writing since April on LGBT Theology with thousands of views and hundreds of comments online. The responses to her support of LGBT issues were to call her a "disgrace" and boycott her music, to tell her she was "no longer welcome", how Christian! How unlike Jesus.
She recommends numerous books on her blog including Sex and the Single Savior by Dale B Martin which I've also read. "Martin concludes that our contemporary obsession with marriage–and the whole search for the 'right' sexual relationships–is antithetical to the message of the gospel."
She also lists for reading:
Bible, Gender and Sexuality by James Brownson
God And The Gay Christian by Matthew Vines
Torn/Unconditional by Justin Lee
Permanent, Faithful, Stable – Christian Same-Sex Marriages by Jeffrey John
Sexuality and the Christian Body by Eugene F Rogers
Love is an Orientation by Andrew Marin
Beeching, Channel 4 news & Scott Lively
Beeching bravely appeared on the 7pm Channel 4 news on Thursday and was set up against the infamous Scott Lively, the US Christian activist who has called for the criminalisation of "the public advocacy of homosexuality" and has allegedly done much to stir up the anti-gay debate and homophobic criminal justice bill in Uganda.
On C4 News, Lively said that lesbianism is something to overcome, "I'm very sorry she has given into the lie that she is a homosexual" and suggested she could be cured still, has Beeching not already tried that and acknowledged that it "fractured" her and "really messed" her up.
Lively says that all sex outside of Genesis' "one flesh paradigm" of man and woman is "illicit". He's obviously not read Genesis too well and its half-dozen sexual and relationship paradigms. "There is no such thing as a gay person, it's an identity you adopt", he says.
Agree to disagree on theology & sexuality but still love you?
In response the the C4 news broadcast a UK police chaplain, in Brighton of all places, has called her sexuality a choice, disagreed with her theology, and subtly dissed her via Twitter by saying that he was "Leaving [the] conversation to pray for really (italics mine) courageous people" referring to the Christians in Iraq, as opposed to her courage in coming out as a lesbian Christian. Sitting on two police equalities boards, I cannot understand how this guy can be active as a police chaplain with his biblically homophobic mindset.
In Beeching's raw and honest interview she says that "her parents have agreed to disagree on the theology around homosexuality", but have supported her lovingly nonetheless. My own were the same, my father at least still struggles with my so-called choices and lifestyle – of course I don't see it as that. But over time, my mother has come round as a full-on supporter and advocate and reads everything on trans and gender in the papers, often sliding it under my father's eyes to move him forward slowly.
Only last week I had to come out to another old college and church friend and they admitted that whilst being sympathetic to my struggle and journey they could not agree with my stance of homosexuality and transsexuality. Churches have so much to learn and it is sad that in many if not most cases they are behind the times, in terms of equality and diversity, something that centuries ago they might have once led on.
Christianity out of step with social equalities evolution
Certainly, at times, Christianity has been groundbreaking in its attitudes to and liberation of women and slaves, removing and equalising barriers of class and race. Yet on sexuality it is as if it is still stuck in the dark ages and is Christianity's last great taboo and the cause of an exodus from the church as it is seen by the young as irrelevant and just plain wrong on LGBTIQ issues.
It has led to my agnosticism now, but I can't let go of the radicalness of Jesus' love and inclusion 2000 years ago. Beeching has written a foreword to the book on "The Liberating Truth: How Jesus Empowers Women" – Jesus may do, but the Church does not. The Church of England has finally agreed to women bishops nearly a century after women got the vote! Catch-up for G*d's sake, Jesus was a feminist, don't you know?
If only the Church were more like Jesus. Beeching, remains committed to the Church and "rather than abandon it and say it's broken, I want to be part of the change", she says.
I'm off to Greenbelt, next week, the only Christian festival that I know of that embraces doubters, atheists, LGBTI people, it even welcomes evangelicals! It is inclusive of a diversity of people and opinion. Vicky will be speaking there and chairing a panel on equal marriage. Sinead O'Connor, who came out as a lesbian back in 2000 and is now more label-free, will be performing too. For one of the most recent interviews with Sinead see PrideSource. At least Vicky has now found her own "liberating truth", freedom at last.
[This post first appeared on Bubblews]
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Robin Williams RIP, Laughter, Tears, Memories, Depression, Suicide, Understanding
12th August 2014 Katy	1 Comment
Saddened, shocked, but not sure I was surprised. Such was the sudden news of Robin Williams' apparent suicide at 63 that the Internet was awash with rumours last night that it was a ruse, a fake story. Details emerged overnight (British time) that he had indeed been found dead at home in Marin County, California, apparently having taken his own life. The latest information is that "Marin county sheriff's department lieutenant Keith Boyd confirmed that Williams was discovered hanged, and had apparently attempted to cut his wrists."
Owing to considerable empathy with his bipolar depression, this is a tough article to write in memoriam to the wonderful Robin Williams, who I first watched aged 11 when he appeared as the alien Mork. Sadly he has returned to his home planet and left us the poorer, but we have over a 100 films and thousands of laughs to remember him by and the challenge to understand mental illness better over our lifetimes.
Update (11 August 2015): It is now a year to the day that Robin Williams passed on and he still makes me laugh and cry in equal measure and continues to inspire whether in life or role.
Films and Characters
Last night I was preparing to watch The Birdcage film with my partner and a friend. We never got round to it, though I'd loaded it into the DVD up to the opening scene. It's now set for a memorial movie night with the memorable Armand. He was so versatile, able to play funny, straight, sad, young, old, real, fantasy, even a penguin or two in Happy Feet as the voices of Ramón and Lovelace.
Of his co-star in Happy Feet Two, 'La Toti' Sofía Vergara, Williams said "I'd walk 50 miles in the snow just to stand in her garbage … and I cleaned up that line!"
Williams appeared in over 100 films, as well as television and theatre, so versatile were the roles that he played. Whether as Mork or Peter Pan, he always looked like he would never grow up and would live forever – one reason we, as adoring fans, all feel the wrench of his going now.
Perhaps, most memorable for me, was Mrs Doubtfire, and the agony of a father doing anything to get close to his kids. Its long-posited sequel Mrs Doubtfire 2 will presumably now no longer be made.
He was scheduled to appear in several unfinished films, but one that just made it to completion and was screened this summer at the Los Angeles Outfest Film Festival is Boulevard (2014) in which he plays an older married man coming to terms with his secret homosexuality.
Another inspirational film for me was Dead Poets Society (1989), as I always wanted to be a maverick motivational teacher, much as my own inspired English teacher was when I was 13 – he'd sit on the desk and read to us Kafka, Tom Sharpe and Shakespeare rather than setting us essays. In the film Williams, plays Keating the English teacher, who challenges the pupils to see the world in different ways, standing on their desks, ripping pages from books that deadened poetry, encouraging them to carpe diem, "seize the day" and call him "O Captain! My Captain!" in reference to Walt Whitman's 1865 poem about the death of Abraham Lincoln.
"It is some dream that on the deck,
You've fallen cold and dead.
My Captain does not answer,
his lips are pale and still;
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;
The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;
From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won;
Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!
But I, with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead."
Waiting for Godot
Williams appeared with his friend Steve Martin in a much acclaimed limited-run production in 1988 of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. A review said that "As the earthbound Estragon, Robin Williams is the same Robin Williams we have come to know and love for his manic intelligence, comic body language and perfect sense of timing. In this part, he is in bad need of a shave. Between convulsions, he gives unmistakable signs of a soul in puzzled torment."
The play is about two down-in-the-dumps men waiting for someone, possibly God (though denied by Beckett), to show up. Being unable to think of a good reason to leave, it becomes an eternal and continually disappointed wait. Williams' real life "puzzled torment" and wait is over and he has decided to leave us. A brave choice – a phrase that some people will not be comfortable with, but one that echoes my own experience, though I'm glad I survived now.
Williams began his stand-up comedy career in the mid to late 1970s, around the same time as his first film role in 1977 and appearance as Mork in Happy Days (1978) which led to the spin-off series, Mork and Mindy, which was hugely ad-libbed.
In the Happy Days Season 5 episode, "My Favorite Orkan", Williams, as Mork, tries to kidnap Richie and take him back to his planet but is foiled by the Fonz. Originally a dream sequence, it was so popular that it was edited so as to be real and allow for the character of Mork to have wiped their memories and reappear in Mork and Mindy as an exiled alien from the planet Ork where humour is banned. Oh Shazbot! Mork showed up again in a retrospective episode of Happy Days, "Mork Returns".
In 2004, he was voted 13th on Comedy Central's list of the "100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time". It was his improvisation that got him the role of Mork, standing on his head at the audition. Ad-libbing often led to film and television scripts adapting to him, rather than him sticking to the lines. Much of his role as the genie in the animated film Aladdin (1992) was improvised.
In 2009 Robin Williams conducted a delayed 26-city US comedy tour called "Weapons of Self-Destruction", aimed at George Bush, rather than himself. He was hospitalised that year for heart surgery after announcing the tour in 2008. In 2010 he performed the show in Canterbury, New Zealand, and donated all the proceeds to the Red Cross and post-earthquake rebuilding projects.
I've often heard the phrase "the funny man of comedy" used of Williams, but aren't all comedians meant to be funny? To me it means someone who can laugh at situations rather than make jokes by taking someone down. The irony is of course that the funny man who appeared in Happy Days was an unhappy man.
Me with the black dog of depression aka Raven who delivered unconditional cuddles when I was battling suicide
Just because someone can make us laugh, does not mean that they can make themselves happy. The daily battle with the black dog of depression and for Robin, at least, the associated 'demons' of drug and drink addiction, lifts momentarily in the manic moments of humour and comedy, but returns like a fog blanket blocking out the sun. Judgements of his addictions are insensitive, for those who've experienced depression, know full well that it can lead to other behaviours in order to survive or end the feelings of depression. Concert pianist James Rhodes called depression a "cloak of lead, a toxic second skin":
"Depression is like being forced to wear a cloak made of lead. You don't get to choose when to put it on and take it off. It is a second skin which gradually seeps into your own, real skin and poisons it until you are a walking, toxic, corrosive bundle of infectious awfulness. The thought of suicide is the only real respite and the only chink of light at the end of the tunnel."
Robin Williams was funny, depression is not, though he laughed at his own "demons", drink and drug addictions, which had returned to afflict him in the last few months. But that doesn't give us the right to laugh at his life, troubles or choices.
I've done stand-up comedy and did a whole set on my own suicide attempt, it was dark and dead pan. Someone even thought I'd made it all up and commended my 'acting'. In fact, it was the truth, often stranger than fiction, and my own surviving suicide and finally wanting to be alive again that enabled me to laugh at death and make fun of myself. That is not for others to do though. Doubly insensitive and offensive is the joke on Twitter I've seen about it now being an ideal time for Kellie Maloney (the transitioning Frank Maloney) to audition for Mrs Doubtfire 2, now that Robin is dead.
Others have taken to the web to say that they have no sympathy for those who take their own life, or suffer from alcohol and drugs addictions. The Guardian has had to moderate and delete about 10% of the comments on the report of his death. I've read of people on Facebook calling it "the pussy way out". So wrong. Suicide is often a decision to end not only self-torment but to end being a burden to others. It can take courage and bravery to attempt it, it is not a coward's way out as Fox News' breaking news editor and anchor Shepard Smith called it, it is the last straw for someone who is tired of fighting for survival every day. I'm not encouraging suicide, but I am saying stop judging it and view the person who has gone as now at peace.
"How can someone so well-off, well-known and successful have depression?". This was said of Stephen Fry, but is doing the rounds about Robin too. Fry references an article by Alastair Campbell in which "he suggested changing the word 'depression' to 'cancer' or 'diabetes' in order to reveal how, in its own way, sick a question, it is. Ill-natured, ill-informed, ill-willed or just plain ill". Fry writes about feeling sad, lonely, depressed, suicidal and the rights to seemingly illogically having those feelings.
"If you know someone who's depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they're going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It's hard to be a friend to someone who's depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do." – Stephen Fry
Even when surrounded by loved ones, depression is a lonely disease, but having a partner or friend around has saved me from acting on suicidal feelings more than once in the past. It was when all alone, in the darkest hours of the night that I attempted it more seriously.
"I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people that make you feel all alone" – Robin Williams
Very often there are no answers or solutions, and there should certainly be no judgements for what is in cause or effect a chemical imbalance in the brain. I've suffered from depression for over a decade and for the last 2 years been under investigation for a variant of bipolar or cyclothymia, Mood Affective Disorder. Fry has cyclothymia and whilst Williams never regarded himself as fully diagnosed, many clinicians think he had depression and Bipolar Affective Disorder.
Whilst the label may help with gaining the right support and treatment, it is irrelevant to how we treat people with the symptoms of the varieties of depression and addiction. We have not lived their life, seen inside their mind, and therefore do not know the balance of accountability for their own actions and suffering under the weight of seemingly intransigent conditions that afflict people indiscriminately and unfairly.
Depression disables, debilitates, and is often met with misunderstanding that you can do something about it by pulling yourself together, getting out more, getting up or some such chivvying coaching. Similarly, with suicide, the offers to "talk to me" before you try it next time, or of it being a "selfish way out" that hurts others, are ignorant, even if often well meant, thoughts. Suicides can be planned or spontaneous, cries for help or calls for the help and feeling a burden on others to end, persistent or momentary feelings of the need for it all to stop, the feeling of powerlessness or the only way to take control.
Dean Burnett in the Guardian called it a "staggering ignorance of mental health problems" to refer to suicide as a selfish act. Suicide and depression are not selfish. Williams had access to the best help around, but he was the "clown that could not be fixed", as Simon Jenkins writes:
"There was no help that Williams and others like him could not and did not receive. It failed. All illness is a great leveller, but none levels like mental illness. It remains the poor relation of medicine. Research is paltry. Therapies are halfhearted. Drugs are primitive."
One-in-four of us will get a depression related illness. Yet it receives a small percentage of even 1/40th of the medical research and treatment budget.
Devastating news about @robinwilliams — knew him a little and liked him a whole lot more. A brain wired like no other and so so kind.
— Stephen Fry (@stephenfry) August 12, 2014
Robin Williams' favourite children's book was CS Lewis' The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe which he would read out loud to his kids. Famous for his funny voices, when reading it to his daughter, named after Princess Zelda from The Legend of Zelda computer game series, she said "Don't do any voices. Just read it as yourself." One of the hardest things in life is to be yourself.
His third wife and now widow, Susan Schneider, said:
"I lost my husband and my best friend, while the world lost one of its most beloved artists and beautiful human beings. I am utterly heartbroken."
Fellow actor and comedian Steve Martin, tweeted that he "could not be more stunned by the loss of Robin Williams, mensch, great talent, acting partner, genuine soul." 'Mensch', whilst simply meaning "human being" is a Yiddish idiom for a genuinely good person, a real "stand-up guy".
Barack Obama, in offering condolences, referred to Williams as "one of a kind":
"Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a bangarang Peter Pan, and everything in between. But he was one of a kind. He arrived in our lives as an alien – but he ended up touching every element of the human spirit. He made us laugh. He made us cry. He gave his immeasurable talent freely and generously to those who needed it most – from our troops stationed abroad to the marginalized on our own streets. The Obama family offers our condolences to Robin's family, his friends, and everyone who found their voice and their verse thanks to Robin Williams."
Tributes will continue to flood in from fans, friends and fellow entertainers, Sarah Silverman described him as "pure love" and Stephen Fry sad he was "so so kind".
At one point over half the trending tags on Twitter were Robin Williams related including #RobinWilliamsWillLiveOnForever.
George Takei said "May the heavens be brightened with your singular glow" and several have commented on Twitter saying that now he can make God laugh. Friends have expressed sadness, referenced mental illness and one wrote "I can't believe Mindy is Morkless", an apt end for how it all began back in 1978.
Gifted, manic, funny, sad, tormented, lost to us, but now at peace. RIP
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Computing & Technology, Social Media
Android Facebook Messenger App Permissions Privacy Scare Story Examined & Debunked
9th August 2014 Katy	Leave a comment
A story on Huffington Post from December 2013 has been shared over 200,000 times, 10,000 were in the last 24hrs – "The Insidiousness of Facebook Messenger's Mobile App Terms of Service", but is it as scary as is made out? Should we all dump the Messenger app ASAP to save our privacy and protect our mobile from Facebook's access to it?
It seems to have started via Paul Joseph Watson's November 2013 Infowars piece. The story opened with a black ops-style reference to the "terms of service that allow the social networking giant to use the microphone on their device to record audio at any time without their permission." Whilst Watson admits that "most apps on Android and Apple devices include similar terms to those pictured above, this is easily the most privacy-busting set of mandates we've seen so far." He goes on to alarm users and assert that they "are agreeing to let Facebook monitor them 24/7, green lighting the kind of open ended wiretap that would make even the NSA jealous."
The same story, which is actually old news, is doing the rounds on Bubblews thanks to its sharing on Bubblews' Facebook page, although the post has now been removed, barely minutes after several people started liking my comment in response to the scaremongering. I wrote responses both on Facebook (thread now deleted by Bubblews) and on a several Bubblews' posts (some comments of which were also deleted), correcting people's fears. In the end I wrote an article linking to the original scare stories.
All this is a re-visiting of old stories because Facebook is now forcibly transitioning its users (well closing the messaging features of its full app) from in-app Facebook messaging to the external separate messaging app Messenger, over the last week.
In the Bubblews post – viewed over 500 times, We Are Borg, &skilledz, scares us with the news that the app requires "unrestricted access to your phone's system" and "Can call phone numbers without the user's consent and can send SMS messages. Audio recordings can be made anytime by using the phone's microphone without requiring user consent."
This is simply not true, these are pre-permissions necessary to enable the app to respond when the user consents to dialling or messaging out!
Take the microphone, for example, whilst "permissions sound scary, [they] are actually logical. Permission to access the phone's microphone to record audio does makes sense: it records audio when you're taking a video and also when you're video conferencing."
In part II of his post his kneejerk response is to "recommend[s] a factory reset". NO! This is misinformation and can cause untold stress and anxiety, not to mention data loss. This is irresponsible scaremongering and the article should not be being promoted on Bubblews' Facebook page without some caveats and more responsible reporting and technical advice.
I've been an IT professional for 20 years, run a software company for 15 years, and been a computer programmer for over 30 years – my first programming was at school in BASIC on a 32k BBC 'B' Micro, next was a Napoleonic wargames simulator written on an Amstrad CPC 464 with 64k RAM to a C60 audio/data cassette! I went on to study Fortran 77 at University and learned to program HTML, javascript etc and then employed programmers in PHP, MySQL, Java, Ajax, CSS etc. I've used mobile phones and handheld devices since 1991 and still have every one I've owned from early Nokias to Sony Ericssons, via Psions, PalmPilots and PDAs from Compaq and HP to each and every Samsung tablet and Note 3.
Enough of the technology CV, to prove I'm a verified geek, what annoys me about these scare stories is that it puts people off useful software, feeds paranoia and makes people not trust technological advancement. Yes, there may be some dodgy companies out there, who 'may' misuse your data, but a factory reset is not going to remove Google, one of the biggest data miners out there, whose misuse of collected data has been proven – remember the 'accidental' collection of wireless data whilst creating Google Streetview?
Rather than flee the Internet from fear, learn how to use it safely, and understand what app permissions actually do, rather than terrify people. One quick place to check on things is Snopes which checks out rumours, scams and urban legends for you. Just search it for "facebook messenger" and you'll see 4 results, the most recent update of which was yesterday, 8 August.
Whilst Snopes gives Messenger and the scary reports a "Mixed" review, due in part to the facts of the permissions being true but the interpretation of them being false, it ends with a reader comment to Sam Fiorella's HuffPost piece, comments on which are now closed:
"Oh for crying out loud…
[Facebook Messenger] needs permission to record audio & video so that you can send an audio or video message. It can't do it without you asking it to.
It can make calls if you ask it to because it links your facebook and local contacts lists.
It absolutely CANNOT do these things without YOU initiating them! It needs the permission in advance so that when you ask it to do these things, they WORK."
The HuffPost article comments report people uninstalling the app as a result, Facebook could sue for defamation! Fiorella finally replied, before the comments closed, saying:
"I would agree that it's not Facebook Messenger's intention to record audio or take a photo without being initiated (eg. taking/adding a pic to a text msg) but once you give permission for the app to do so automatically, what's to stop a hacker or other app from doing so? We have too much blind faith…that's the point I'm trying to make."
More responsible reporting can be found at Android Central, which describes Fiorella's original story as "spreading what we call Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD). They're irresponsible, show a distinct lack of knowledge on the way Android permissions work, and frankly they do very little to educate. That's not to say you shouldn't look at an app's permissions before installing it — you absolutely should."
You can check out the Messenger app permissions in the Google Play store or once installed via your phone's Settings – General – Applications Manager select Messenger and then scroll down to see the permissions.
The majority of these are scarier than they look, but mostly exist to allow the app to send messages, make calls and add pictures, 'selfies', video, audio, media attachments.
Writing to and editing your SD card is for data cacheing, and "draw over other apps" allows the Chat heads to float in the foreground over other apps for incoming messages.
All permissions need to be accepted in order to install but some can be edited and turned on/off once installed via the app's settings, such as turning Notifications or Chat heads off.
Google's Hangouts app, and SnapChat, also use similar permissions, indeed much of the "Big Brother" language of permissions, is decreed by Google's Android system itself, and not by Facebook. The wording and indeed the application of the permissions "doesn't necessarily reflect the way the Messenger app and other apps use them", says Facebook. Check out Facebook's explanation.
Some have suggested that the large memory consumption by the Facebook apps hides nefarious NSA-type secret monitoring and that like Norton, information could be passed to the FBI or MI5 without a court order. My Facebook app is currently using 195MB and the Messenger app only 45MB on my Android device – but that will vary with usage and cacheing, you'd have to delete all your data and logout then boot up the app but without logging in to run a full comparison. Skype is currently using 47MB, even more than Messenger. Twitter is using 152MB. There is nothing sinister with these memory usages, just bloatware and increased feature sets of evolving software.
On the Media's report describes the 'news' that Facebook wants to "listen to our phone calls" as "seemingly very Orwellian" but which is in fact a "good example of paranoia that misses the point."
If anything, this false furore is a good example of poor communication – for a communication app, that is somewhat ironic! The poor messaging skills come from Facebook's media and PR department who are so mistrusted, especially after trying to cover up, I mean explain, their recent secret psychological experiment on hundreds of thousands of users.
Facebook is not good, at communication, by its own admission. Particularly, when it states that it takes "privacy and security at Facebook really seriously because that is something that allows people to share" opinions and emotions, said Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg's deputy.
A recent Guardian poll suggested that 84% had lost trust in the social media network, with 66% considering closing their account as a result. Although in the 10 weeks since that poll, I've not seen more than 2 out of my 2000+ Facebook friends close their account, and at least one of which was for different reasons – transitioning to a professional page. So 0.1% at best have reacted by closing their accounts.
Facebook, is a net social benefit and/or necessary evil, depending upon your preference, just as I find having a phone useful, but sometimes invasive – I actually hate being called and prefer to use Messenger, or SMS if I have to, because I can control when to reply at my convenience, depending upon my time, health and mood.
Facebook is becoming as ingrained, prevalent and near universal, as phones and the Internet itself. Many people get their news directly from Facebook. For many it is their homepage upon opening their browser or booting to a Windows 8 tiled home-screen. It has become almost an operating system in itself where which one can search the web, read articles, watch videos, without leaving Facebook.
The best form of counter-attack to fear and ignorance is information, not alarmist misinformation or cyber-isolationism. Please think before spreading false or exaggerated stories, and check and re-check your facts, as well as your app permissions. Happy messaging!
[This article was first published on Bubblews]
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Why are we members of the BPCA?
Proof we're fit for the fight
Regional Pest Services is a member of the British Pest Control Association (BPCA) – the trade body for the pest management industry in the UK.
Our members logo is earned and we're proud to display it because membership is a sign of professionalism and a mark of quality.
BPCA promotes best practice and being part of the organisation provides independent proof that we're committed to excellence in every part of our business.
We've been Full Servicing Members of BPCA for [number] years.
What our BPCA membership means for our customers
Membership is recognition of our expertise.
It shows we abide by industry Codes of Conduct and Practice and pass regular audits against British Standard EN 16636 – the benchmark of quality for pest management operators across Europe.
Membership also confirms that we're able to provide detailed advice on pest prevention measures and will carry out a proper survey before starting any work.
It's evidence that we protect staff, customers and members of the public through risk and COSHH assessments, it means we only employ technicians who meet or exceed the industry standard qualifications and shows that we're committed to Continuous Professional Development.
Being part of BPCA also confirms that we hold the proper insurances.
Our membership also gives us access to technical support, business guidance and help with documentation and legislation – which means we're always ahead of the game.
In short, it's independent affirmation that our customers will be protected professionally – and that we're fit for the fight!
You can always check our membership status at bpca.org.uk/check
Who are BPCA?
BPCA represents organisations with a professional interest in the management of public health pests to provide safe and healthy environments.
It's the role of the Association to:
Highlight the risks of inadequate control
Offer guidance in what to look for when searching for a pest control contractor
Provide general pest advice and guidance documentation
Provide advice on how to select an appropriate pest control professional.
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Pest management confirmed as key workers
Pest management has been confirmed as an essential sector during the Covid-19 pandemic by George Eustice, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
According to Defra, pest management is covered in the key worker list under the "food and necessary goods" section, specifically concerning hygiene.
This confirmation means that pest management professionals in England can continue to send their children to school during the pandemic. The Northern Ireland government has already confirmed pest management is an essential service.
This also likely means that if the UK was to go into further lockdown measures, pest management companies would be able to continue to protect the nation.
While BPCA has already confirmed that pest management workers could continue to provide essential services. This is the first time that a government official explicitly acknowledges pest management to be on the list of key workers.
The news comes after the sector has lobbied for confirmation that pest management appears on the list – including BPCA and CEPA.
Henry Mott, president of CEPA, received confirmation from his member of parliament, Alicia Kearns MP for Rutland and Melton, that she has had approval from Secretary of State, George Eustice MP.
BPCA is pursuing confirmation directly from Defra to support the letter Henry has had from Alicia Kearns MP.
We want to thank everyone that has taken the time to write to their MPs on the subject. It's taken a substantial collaborative effort for our relatively small sector to get the ear of the UK government.
BPCA membership
It's the role of the Association to: • Highlight the risks of inadequate control • Offer guidance in what to look for when searching for a pest control contractor • Provide general pest advice and guidance documentation • Provide advice on how to select an appropriate pest control professional.
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Q: How to drop a pandas group based on a condition from other dataframe I have two dataframes, that look like this
df1 =
   name   color
0  John   Blue
1  John   Red
2  Lucy   Green
3  Lucy   Blue
4  Max    Blue
2  Max    White

And
df2 =
   name   value
0  John   15
1  Lucy   20
2  Max    5

I am trying to drop all the grouped names in df1 whose value in df2 is below 10 (in this case, I would want to drop all the rows with df1['name']='Max').
The result I am trying to get is:
df1 =
   name   color
0  John   Blue
1  John   Red
2  Lucy   Green
3  Lucy   Blue

Thanks!

A: Like this:
In [731]: res = pd.merge(df1, df2, on='name')
In [736]: res[res['value'].ge(10)][['name','color']]

Out[736]:
   name  color
0  John   Blue
1  John    Red
2  Lucy  Green
3  Lucy   Blue

A: #get names that are greater than or equal to 10
filtr = df2.loc[df2.value.ge(10),'name']

#extract names that match filtr

df1.loc[df1.name.isin(filtr)]

    name    color
0   John    Blue
1   John    Red
2   Lucy    Green
3   Lucy    Blue

A: df1['name'].isin(['Max']) # select the df1 which name is 'Max'

df1=df1[~df1['name'].isin(['Max'])] # reverse select the other elements.

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As a Gold Star Mother whose highly decorated Marine son gave his life for our country nearly nine years ago during a complex ambush in Afghanistan, I have witnessed a tremendous amount of American valor with the numbers showing less than 1% serving our great nation in uniform, many who retire or leave one venue will continue to serve in other government or civil service offices or political arenas.
With all the news emerging regarding the criminal SPYGATE activities of top government officials who misused and abused their platforms and privileges as personal endowment plans during the Obama, Clinton and Bush administrations, forming coups and counter coups against President Trump and Americans, there is a not so silent rage taking place, a quest for Justice and accountability.
Whistleblowers from deep within have been coming forward to inform the Trump administration on nefarious and evil plots. These men and women are true heroes as they and their families have been threatened and their voices stifled during past administrations. These are unusual times we are witnessing… sinister agendas of tyranny and treason have been brewing against our President and the number one ruling body of government, "We The People".
I wanted to take this sacred time frame leading up to the Memorial Holiday to recognize and highlight the work of one of these great living heroes who because of his credibility and courage, adds a dimension of new found hope for a sovereign nation in need of deep healing from the inside out where our most treacherous enemies have resided and 4 Dimensional chess is being played, as counter intelligence is the master tool used to fight this spiritual war of good vs evil.
Because of Kevin Shipp and his honorable colleagues of "Secret agent men and women" the loss of our sons and daughters legacy gains a new level of truth, birthed through the clandestine arrangement of fate and destiny.
For it is here that our fallen heroes are sustained and supported in the light they were created in, not the darkness that stole their last breath and unfulfilled dreams.
American legacy is resurrected through the consecration and valor of the righteous who fight on both sides of the veil.
Whistleblower Kevin Shipp, former CIA Agent speaks about the subversion of America and how we as a people and a nation have become ambushed by the shadow government within the government as well as the deep state military industrial complex and revolving door of corporate lobbyists.
Former "high-level" CIA Officer Kevin Shipp says President Trump has "declared war" on the Deep State and the shadow government.
According to ATLANTA, Aug. 27, 2013/PRNewswire
"While working as a senior officer on a secret government base, Shipp and his family were subjected to severe toxic exposure. They were bleeding from their noses, vomiting, had bruising all over their bodies, were bed-ridden with severe headaches requiring morphine, lost their short-term memory and suffered from strange rashes on the exposed areas of their skin. Doctor's diagnoses and environmental tests showed exposure to poisonous toxins. The house was quarantined – while workers in hazmat suits boxed up all of the family's belongings, including the children's toys, and took them away to be burned."
"Their home was broken into, the family was spied on and followed, documents were altered and Shipp's career was threatened. He and his family filed a personal injury suit against the CIA. The CIA signed a court ordered mediated settlement. Two days later, the CIA refused to abide by the agreement, threatening that if the family did not accept a lower settlement – they would invoke the State Secrets Privilege.
After coercing a federal judge, the CIA used the privilege to shut the case down in a secret court and placed a seal on it. No one, not even his or her Congressman and Senator, could have access to the evidence. The family was threatened with jail if they discussed the case with anyone.
Chapter 26 of Shipp's book discusses the ensuing cover-up. The CIA blacked out the majority of the chapter. The book was reviewed by the CIA and approved for publication. Shipp built a code into the manuscript revealing the cover up.
Kevin Shipp, decorated CIA agent has revealed the CIA's use of secrecy to cover up negligence and Constitutional violations. In the critically acclaimed book From the Company of Shadows, he uses an embedded code in the manuscript to expose sections of the book blacked out by the CIA, which details his family's toxic exposure and the subsequent CIA cover up."
The shadow government are the secret intelligence agencies that have such great power and secrecy that they are able to act, often with impunity, without the knowledge of Congress.
The "Deep State" which is the military industrial complex, all of the industrial corporations and their lobbyists, and they have all the money, power and greed that give all the money to the Senators and Congressmen. The shadow government….specifically, the CIA is going after President Donald Trump.
The entire organization will be jeopardized when the full level of exposure sees the light of day and revealed the CIA's use of secrecy to cover up negligence and Constitutional violations, Human Rights violations and lack of Rule of Law.
Shipp says, "Trumps making tremendous progress despite tremendous resistance. They have already done a character assassination on him, and I think they could go further than that. . . . Trump is making progress, and he has them running scared."
President Trump's December Executive Order on "Serious Human Rights Abuse or Corruption" is a counter move in Trump turning the tables on various groups of people and organizations trying to take him down. The President called it a threat to U.S. National Security.
The term "Serious Human Rights Abuse or Corruption" brings in the U.S.Military, the U.S. intelligence agencies, domestic law enforcement and the entire U.S. law enforcement into enforcing these laws. The amazing thing about the Executive Order is now extending to foreign persons, foreign organizations and even foreign government officials. This is a national security threat, which means it includes anyone inside the United States or outside the U.S.
Terrified are those who have been attacking President Donald Trump as he counter attacks them. Being the outsider and not allowing them to manipulate him. Trump is questioning the Deep State and the shadow government. The News media and their Editors are attacking him from within, many of them being the lineage and spawn of Operation Paperclip, Nazi, Communist.
Whistleblower Kevin Shipp, is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Officer, intelligence and counter terrorism expert, held several high level positions in the CIA. Included in his assignments as protective agent for the Director of the CIA, counterintelligence investigator searching for moles inside the CIA, overseas counter terrorism operations officer, internal security investigator, assistant team leader for the senior program manager for the Department of State, Diplomatic Security, Anti Terrorism Assistance global police training program. Kevin is also the recipient of two CIA Meritorious Unit Citations, three Exceptional Performance Awards and a Medallion for high risk overseas operations.
Shipp also supervised the Department of State Anti Terrorism Assistance program and managed the protective detail assigned to the President of Afghanistan following the U.S. invasion.
Born in Laramie, Wyoming, he and his family moved to Falls Church, Virginia where he spent most of his life. He put himself through college using college loans, working during summers and hitchhiking to and from Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, where he earned a Bachelor's degree in Biology. Later, he earned a Master's level degree in forensic psycho physiology and the detection of deception from the Department of Defense Academy for Credibility Assessment.
"The Shadow Government is a system that manipulates Washington, DC behind the scenes, that operates beyond the control of Congress, that even dictates the actions of the President and affects the daily lives of every American.
It is real and has been growing in complexity for over sixty years. While the American people work long hours just to survive and make ends meet, the Shadow Government spends billions of dollars on secret operations, overthrowing governments and engages in covert wars that kill thousands, all without any vote or say by the American people; the people that pay the taxes the Shadow Government uses to fund these operations, while their Congressmen and Senators promise they will make their lives better and improve their difficult standard of living, these same Congressmen vote for billions of dollars in military and covert action programs, taking contributions from the lobbyists of connected Shadow Government military industrial corporations.
The people starve while the kings shower themselves with gold….Sort of a modern day rendition of the Roman Soldiers lived and weaponized life against the masses.
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. – Thomas Jefferson
Mr Kevin Shipp is the author of the best selling book, "From The Company of Shadows" an expose on CIA Operations and the abuse of government secrecy. He has come out to expose "the Shadow Government", the massive system of secrecy and corruption that controls the elected US government behind the scenes.
Shipp courageously exposes the current stealth jihad movement operating in the US and lays out the techniques terrorist organizations use to carry out their attacks.
From the Company of Shadows
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