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Chilean illustrator Adolfo Torino Nuñez takes science fiction characters modern audiences are familiar with and chucks them several decades into the past. The resulting artwork resembles a cross between superhero periodicals you'd find at your neighborhood malt shoppe and weirdo bootleg comics collecting gravel grit at the county swap meet. His Futurama is definitely giving me flashbacks to Uncanny X-Men circa the 1980s.
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Weird Al's 'Word Crimes' Takes on 'Blurred Lines' and Bad Grammar [VIDEO]by Thomas Chau | PopCrush
As part of his "eight videos in eight days" promise, Weird Al Yankovic has unveiled the video for the 'Word Crimes,' the second parody off his new 'Mandatory Fun' album, which was released today.
'Word Crimes' takes on Robin Thicke's 2013 hit 'Blurred Lines,' and is music to the ears of those who are fed up with a new generation of kids communicating with texting shortcuts and emojis in place of proper English.
The video borrows elements of the 'Blurred Lines' video, but mainly showcases punctuation marks and unnecessary hashtags in an age where short tweets and texting have replaced the art of writing.
In fact, the video could very well educate a lot of people about proper usage regarding some of the most common errors they make.
For instance, in regards to the use of "its vs. it's," the video shows the sentence "Every dog has it's day" and sings, "Say you got an i-t, followed by an apostrophe / S, what does that mean? You would not use 'it's' in this case / As a possessive / It's a contraction."
In the rap verse that is originally sung by T.I., fans are also treated to a lyric about the proper use of "who vs. whom." "One thing that I ask of you / Time to learn your homophones is past due / You learn to diagram a sentence or two / Always say 'to whom' don't ever say 'to who.'"
It's a pretty ingenious and relevant song in this day and age of rushed communication as a result of smartphone texting and social media writing. Check out 'Word Crimes' by clicking on the video above.
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The battle for public acceptance of "enhanced interrogation techniques" such as waterboarding and sleep deprivation as part of the "new normal" for statecraft after September 11 hangs in the balance.
On the one hand a soon-to-be-released US Senate intelligence committee report on its three-year investigation into enhanced interrogation is expected to show little evidence it produced any of the much-touted counterterrorism breakthroughs.
On the other hand the former chief of the CIA's counterterrorism centre Jose Rodriguez is releasing his conveniently timed book, Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions after 9/11 Saved American Lives. Rodriguez alleges enhanced interrogation techniques not only work but were the source of many, if not most, of the signal counterterrorism successes in the ''global war on terror''.
So whom to believe? The Senate committee report or Rodriguez, whose book was ghost-written by a former speechwriter for Vice-President Dick Cheney, the neo-con architect of the enhanced interrogation measures?
Politics aside, answering certain questions can help decide the real merits of these techniques.
Firstly, is torture effective in getting valuable intelligence? And, secondly, what are its broader effects?
The answer to the first question is resolutely no. Four US officials have written about their firsthand interrogation experiences: two air force officers, Steve Kleinman and Matthew Alexander; an FBI officer, Ali Soufan; and a CIA officer and co-author of this article, Glenn Carle. None of us knew the others when writing our assessments of torture's efficacy. But we all used almost identical words to state that torture does not produce reliable information, or greater quantities of information or "better" information than that obtained from non-coercive measures.
In fact, coercive measures make "information" obtained harder to evaluate and therefore suspect and problematic. The CIA rank and file know this, as almost all reports obtained from enhanced interrogation techniques were formally "recalled" for being obtained under duress, and therefore unreliable.
The second question - the broad effects of torture - is often overlooked while people focus on its ability to extract information. Examined closely, however, these effects are so disturbing that they undermine any supposed merit of enhanced interrogation.
Let's start with victims of torture. From Algeria, Vietnam, Chile or the ''war on terror'', we know practices of torture are never confined to a few "high value targets" but spread through organisations. Torture becomes pervasive and routine, which means that large numbers of people will be tortured, with devastating, lifelong and often irreversible effects on their physical and psychological health.
The effects on torturers are harder to define and more ambiguous largely because, in the rare instances where they seek therapeutic help, they are unlikely to identify themselves.
Frantz Fanon, the great theorist of post-colonial liberation, reports on one torturer from the Algerian war who found himself savagely striking his baby and waking to torture his wife. In his recent book None of Us Were Like This Before, Josh Phillips documents among US veterans from Iraq the same type of atrocity-related trauma we have seen in the aftermath of other cases - toxic levels of guilt and related self-harm, including suicide.
At the very least, torture normalises violence, with deleterious consequences for the individuals involved and for society as a whole.
Much more is known about the effect of torture on organisations. Torture leads to de-skilling, narrow professionalism, fragmentation, devolution of authority to the most local level and the destruction of codes of respect and authority. The CIA's own human resources and exploitation training manual warns "the routine use of torture lowers the moral calibre of the organisation that uses it and corrupts those that rely on it as the quick and easy way out". It deadens or removes individual judgment, the very quality that intelligence agencies prize.
Internationally, it will be many years before the United States can convince foreign observers its acts correspond to its values when the facts are stark: the US states it opposes torture by any party, yet carries out torture itself. Empirical evidence shows the US has lost enormous support from individuals, groups and nations that now see it as perverted by the very evils it claims to oppose.
Finally, in a world where norms and practices, like finance and fashion, are transmitted across the globe, the sanctioned violation of the prohibition on torture by a state that holds itself as the ''light unto the nations'' has a universally negative impact.
When the US not only tortures but announces that it in doing so it is doing right, it violates individuals and harms the fragile edifice of universal human rights that we have been building in the 64 years since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
In the US, torture is now calmly debated and defended by leading individuals and advocated by one of the two major political parties. Significant portions of the public now consider torture acceptable under certain conditions, while for others there are even fewer moral constraints on its use.
Americans were not so confused prior to the September 11 terrorist attacks. But many now have compromised their principles, not even recognising the extent to which they have incorporated values that the United States has opposed since the time of George Washington.
It is wishful thinking to believe that we can torture judiciously without coarsening and corrupting ourselves.
Associate Professor Danielle Celermajer is director of the University of Sydney's Torture Prevention and Human Rights programs. Glenn Carle is a former CIA interrogator and author of The Interrogator: A CIA agent's true story. The pair will appear in conversation at the Sydney Writers Festival today.


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Is this by design???
I add a subversion to the image basket and the main version is added instead. Why???
Very inconvenient!
Drag & drop subversions into portfolios does not work as expected, the main version is added instead. This has been filed in Mantis, but in 3.3 still is not fixed. Only "right click - Operations - Add to Portfolio (Shift+Ctrl+B)" works as expected.
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BEVERLY, Mass. (taken from an Endicott press release) – Sophomore center fielder Liam O'Connor (Avon, Conn./Avon) went 3-for-4 with a two-run single, but the Brandeis baseball team couldn't overcome an 8-0 hole as they lost to Endicott College, ranked No. 27 in the most recent ABCA Division III poll. The Gulls are coached by Brian Haley, a 1999 Brandeis graduate.
The hosts got 7 1/3 innings on the mound from junior lefty Zach Poland (Essex Junction, Vt.) and two triples from sophomore outfielder Corbin Hyde (Lewiston, Maine) that brought home three runs.
Brandeis dropped to 7-11 (2- 6 UAA) with the loss and will pick up action on Thursday, April 3rd at Rhode Island College. The Judges were blanked over the first six innings until a sacrifice fly by senior Dominic Schwartz (San Francisco, Calif./Lowell) and later got a RBI single by junior Kyle Brenner (Brookfield, Mass./St. Peter Marian) and O'Connor's late run-scoring hit.
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Judges sophomore James Machado (Dracut, Mass./Dracut) shut down Endicott over the next two frames until the bottom of the fifth as the Gulls put up four more runs with two outs to take a 8-0 lead. Matthew Paola(Middlebury, Conn.) plated two on a single through the infield, Michael Cahill (Plymouth, Mass.) drove a ball up the middle to score the third runner of the inning, and Kochiss knocked in his lone RBI on a hard hit ball to third that brought Paola home 90 feet.
Brandeis got one run back in the seventh on Schwartz' sacrifice fly, but Endicott took the run back in the bottom half of the frame on Hyde's second triple to deep center to score sophomore catcher Josh Drew (Intervale, N.H.). Drew had reached on a leadoff, pinch-hit walk.
Brandeis put up their two final runs in the top of the eighth on RBI singles from Brenner and O'Connor and threated to add more in the top of the ninth, but Gulls sophomore Nick Quattro (Canton, Conn.) escaped a jam with two runners on with a strikeout to end the game.
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Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition takes NetherRealm Studios' bold new fighting game and enhances it with over 60 of new content including 6 new characters, over 30 new skins and 60 new S.T.A.R. Labs missions. The addition of the new characters brings the roster to 30 fan favorite DC icons, including Batman, The Joker, Green Lantern, The Flash, Superman and Wonder Woman. Heroes and villains will engage in epic battles on a massive scale in a world where the line between good and evil has been blurred.
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'Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition' on the PlayStation 4 is a fighting video game based upon the fictional universe of DC Comics. The game was developed by NetherRealm Studios and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.
In the last six or seven years we've gotten a surplus of comic book goodness in just about every form of entertainment known to man. From comics to video games all the way to the expansive Marvel Cinematic Universe, things have been looking pretty up. While Marvel Studios has been dominating the world of cinematic superheroes, it has been DC that is feeling the rush of success on video games. 'Injustice: Gods Among us' is a wonderful fighter that flips the script on what to expect out of our favorite DC Heroes and Villains. From the first trailer we saw to the last fight we had in the game, we were in love. Keep on reading to see why this game should become the Pledge of Allegiance for DC fans everywhere.
Written by NetherRealm Studios alongside the head writers at DC Comics, 'Injustice: Gods Among Us' brings fans into a set of alternate universes in order to tell its wacky but invigorating story. If you want to skip the next paragraph then just know this: The Joker did it.
But to be more specific, the plot of 'Gods Among Us' starts with the Joker destroying all of Metropolis with a gigantic nuclear weapon. Millions of people are dead and Superman is essentially lost. The Joker manages to trick Supes into killing Lois Lane and the unborn child they share. This causes Superman to snap into a rage that has previously never been seen of the iconic hero. The Joker ends up getting killed during by Superman during Batman's interrogation of the villain. Superman continues his descent into pseudo madness as he becomes the High Councillor of a new order. Batman obviously doesn't take kindly to this and the two begin what is to become a long war. Five years into this gigantic, universe altering world, Batman discovers the an alternate universe where the Joker failed in his plot to destroy Metropolis. This is where the crossover of universes first happens and when things take a turn for the mind bending. We won't give up too much more, as you should play it in order to appreciate it fully.
'Gods Among Us' is a follow up to the originally titled 'Injustice'. This new release features all of the story elements and characters from the initial game but it also includes all of the DLC that had previously been released in individual fashion. You end up with a roster nearing 40 total characters from the beloved DC Universe, each of which has been rendered in their full and highly detailed 3D glory. Alongside these characters you can also unlock alternate skins for some of the more interesting characters.
If you haven't realized by now, 'Injustice: Gods Among Us' is a fighting/brawler game made in the likeness of titles like 'Mortal Kombat' and 'Street Fighter'. Upon loading the game up you are given a side view of the arena and it is there that you take control of your character in order to obliterate your opponent. Instead of your match being divided into multiple rounds you are instead given two health bars. The first person to deplete the others health to zero, twice, wins the round.
Combat in the game is what drives the story forward so it is obviously important that it is accessible. fortunately for us 'Injustice' is as easy to play as riding a bicycle. It is tempting to load up your favorite character and just button mash but there are so many reasons to take time to learn the strategy. Seeing as the fighting itself is limited to four buttons and your movement controls, there is no reason not to spend some time learning combinations. Each character has their own special abilities and it takes away from the energy bar at the top of the screen in order to use them. You can rack up energy by deploying combos and doing other fancy moves. Once you get your meter filled enough you can send out an ultimate attack that can typically end the match in one or two hits. Each legendary character is given a special set of moves that appeals directly to the fan in all of us. The Joker has his own darkly sadistic moves while Harley Quinn is demented and oozing sexuality. Batman has his gizmos, the Green Lantern has his ring, and so on and so forth.
Seeing as this is a fighting game there is always concern about how the storyline is portrayed. A lot of fighting games tend to make the campaign mode a throw in just so those of us who would complain about it not being there are satisfied. This isn't the case with 'Injustice'. The campaign mode is as interesting as competing online and we think even more so. As with 'Mortal Kombat', released back in 2011, you will jump from character to character in order to see all points of view of the story. and trust us, there are plenty of alternating viewpoints to get a load of. The multiple universes allow for you to experience the same character in different ways as well as to see fresh new looks at how characters would react in crazy situations. We loved the darkness of the 'war' universe as well as the alternate Earth.
The graphics in 'Injustice: Gods Among Us' are hit and miss at times. The actual characters themselves look completely gorgeous. Each character has been modeled to almost life like optimization. The cutscenes and voice acting look equally good. Where the aesthetics fall off is with the backgrounds art and animations. The backdrop for most of the fights tends to be bland and sort of lifeless.
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Gary; Thanks for killing it at the fury trails this weekend. Your style definitely inspires the riders. Ya, it's all about the Vans for riding; they have been supporting BMX since I was a kid and Nike was still just a running shoe. Any doubters shoe just quit bitching and ride already.
All you idiots calling Gary a "sell out" need to shut the hell up. There is nothing wrong with him promoting his sponsors every chance he gets. He makes a living riding his bike.
clicked two times you are full of it. You are bitching about Gary and Vans then you say " I ride Nikes anyways so whatever I guess." Nike is as corporate as it gets. Big dummy!
It's a hard life isn't it. Don't use the term "with all due respect" if you don't respect nice guys trying to make a living. People who don't care about the opinions of others will never be listened to by others.
this is how much i care about what you guys say l_l.
with all due respect i guess maybe i shouldnt have called gary young a sell out. My point was that these damn videos vans put up all the time are pretty pathetic. I thought i was going to watch a video about gary talking about style but no this was just another lousy advertisement they tricked me to watch. advertising everywhere every second you get a chance is annoying to me, sorry for voicing my own opinion. you can all blow me.
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i think u could say gary young has that little extra oh fuck yea he does
Man Gary makes me want to ride. I wish this was a full edit, because those shots were all gorgeous.
gary is legit ! great style and nice guy
Gary Young is the farthest thing from a sellout.
he rides in a way thats just better than you ever could.
Atleast its not a double pits to chesty.
gary is the man.
and clicked times two, you're calling him a sellout because he advertises his sponsor? What about you? you're here on vital where everyone can see it saying that you ride in nikes. Saying that on here is advertising nikes. And I'm sure you have stickers on your bike or helmet of bike companies. And you probably wear tshirts with logos on them too. You're advertising for all those companies too, and you're not even getting paid for it.
clicked times two- your not very smart are you or your young and don't know what its like to be an adult and pay your own bills, but anyone on this site would agree with me on this that has to pay their on bills, but would you rather be working your balls off doing something you dont like, or riding your bike and get paid for it, thats what they do when they make an advertisement...I used to be the same way thinking everyone is a sell-out when they make a video game or over advertise, but now that I have to support myself I would do the same thing, it would be stupid not to and the next guy is going to capitalize on it anyway...trust me you will figure it out when you have to work a 9-5 job and have to pay bills!
clicked times two. fuck you. u know ud rep there shit if u were sponsored by them. hes not even a sellout. your just a dumb fucking cunt. now go fucking kill yourself.
shut up and stop complaining hes gonna rep his sponsor its his sponsor you retard thats how he gets paid and nike 6.0s suck compared to vans
ok so advertising makes you wanna buy their shoes less but you wear the official shoe of the Dew Tour
omg im about to throw up. gary young you are such a sellout i am sorry but damn am i tired of watching all these pros shamelessly advertise their sponsor whenever they get a chance..... its mostly these damn vans videos too though vans must make these guys do these videos. watching these videos actually make me want to buy their shoes less. i ride nikes anyways so whatever i guess
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Staff workers at a communications building in London have something more to do when they ride the company elevator or "lift." They can lick the 1,325 Jaffa Cake flavored stickers that line the walls.
Food technicians and artists took four weeks to install the Jaffa Cake flavored stickers inside the walls of an elevator in the communications firm, Engine, in Central London, the UK Daily Mail reported.
McVities, the manufacturer of the popular orange-flavored, chocolate dripped sponge cake snack, said they took inspiration from the glass elevator in the film Charlie and the Chocolate factory when creating the lip-smacking elevator, the Daily Mail reported.
The flavored walls were designed to help office workers relieve stress on their brief rides.
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A Jaffa Cakes spokesman told the Daily Mail that the Jaffa Cake flavored stickers are removed and replaced once they've been licked.
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I've only been here a few days.
Not long, granted; but enough time that I've gotten a pretty fair handle on what the the place and the Folks here are about.
It's immediately clear that I am at opposite ends of the political spectrum from the overwhelming majority.
Not altogether unexpected I suppose, but I have to say, I am astonished at the homogeneity of thought that exists among a relatively large group of people who are supposed to be free-thinkers.
I can't help but ask how this is.
This is not my my first forum.
There have been several other sites that I've spent a fair amount of time on.
Mostly Military, which admittedly have predominantly Religious Conservative memberships.
-- At least, that was the case with Military.com before it was overrun and became Militant.commie -- be that as it may...
I'm pointing this out, because to be absolutely candid, it appears that I was more accepted as a non-religious Conservative (and I made no secret) among religious Conservatives than I seem to be among non-religious, non-Conservatives.
Kind of flies in the face of convention, does it not?
I mean, you have the Military, with its reputation for intolerant lock-step groupthink versus free-thought Atheists who are ostensibly tolerant of practically all dissent.
I've encountered more condescension in a few days here, from just a few people, than I did in a couple of months in other places.
I'd say it takes that convention and stands it on its head.
I'm not being thin-skinned.
It takes a lot to get through the sand-blasted old hide I'm wearin', believe me.
I'm all about objective thought and objective observation.
If I'm wrong, I'm hoping someone will present me with a cogent argument to the contrary.
I'm feeling a bit disillusioned at the moment...
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This is not intended as a blanket indictment.
There's a bunch of real nice people I've met here...
before i joined this site i had no idea what political slant other non-believers had. but i can't say i was surprised. Atheists tend to be natural progressives. at least socially. we value science - social conservatives don't. we value secular gov't - social conservatives don't. i could go on and on but you get the gist.
the level of homogeneity may be somewhat unexpected, and i suspect many Atheists are Democrats largely b/c of social issues. i had a thread here once on a 3rd party which is socially liberal and fiscally conservative. i think many of us fit into that category, although i'm not so sure i actually agree with current conservative fiscal policies. however, for many here, the religious/social issues that are rampant in the Republican party are simply too much to go along with.
Look again.
We're a much more sophisticated bunch than you want to give credit.
And tell you what:
I give you my word that the day the Democrat Party starts to expel the Nuns on Bus along with all the other Catholic/Christian Socialists, and maybe all those hyper-religious Black Folks that are foundational Democrat constituencies, I will do everything I possibly can to see to it that the same is done with those Republican Jesus Freaks.
Fair enough, Tyler?
So are you saying that all those Socialist Christians, along with Socialist grifters in general, aren't pushing their radical Socialist beliefs on everybody else?
I'm gonna' have to call you on at several things here, Matt.
If by Social issues, you refer to abortion, well I'm afraid that I'm with the theists on that, for completely non theistic reasons.
Very simply put, I regard it as nothing more than infanticide, which I regard as nothing more than barbaric.
Seriously, I think it is incumbent upon anyone who would call themselves Human to be protective of the most innocent Humans among us.
If for no other reason, than the survival of the species.
Perhaps the best way illustrate to what I mean, is to use Margaret Sanger (aka, the Mother of Planned Parenthood) as an example.
The Left seems to regard her as some sort icon (Hillary Clinton very certainly worships at her altar). Have you ever done any research into the woman's philosophy?
The bitch was an unrepentant racist/eugenicist Socialist.
"More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control."
- Margaret Sanger, Birth Control Review, May 1919, p. 12
"We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population. and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."
- Margaret Sanger's December 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble,
Those are direct quotes, Matt. Her own words. If you'd care to find more information, it's pretty ubiquitous on the internet.
The same sort of "science" found application in the 1930's and 40's in the National Socialist German Reich.
Where do you suppose Adolf Schicklgruber, et al learned their tradecraft? The woman had a very strong influence there as well. A real inspiration, in fact. If you don't want to believe me, you might start by googling up Ernst Rudin. Better yet, take a few trips to a library. Fantastic places, those...
Sorry, but I just can't get behind any of that, because behind that lies a realm that contains gas chambers and crematoria.
I've sorta' dedicated my life to opposition of that sort of thing.
The prevention of pregnancy is one thing, the butchering of an innocent Human Being as a matter of nothing more than convenience is another altogether.
As for Conservative fiscal policy, well...
Where do you find flaw in people conducting their own lives and making their own decisions?
It's called Individual Liberty, and on the depressingly few occasions it's actually been put into practice in the history of this Country, it has worked pretty damned well.
Consider the decade of the 1920's and the decade that preceded it.
Woodrow Wilson (a singularly execrable individual) entered in Office in 1913, and immediately went to work on a very "Progressive" agenda.
Right out the gate, the Nation saw the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment, which ushered the implementation of a steeply graduated tax on personal incomes (prior to this, known as a capitation tax, forbidden under the Constitution -- even if it had been tried several times before).
That was a real bad omen for personal liberty.
It paved the way for what was arguably the greatest government power-grab in the Nation's history, prior to 2010.
By the time Wilson (or at least his wife) left office, the top marginal marginal rate had risen from an initial seven percent to seventy-three percent, the private economy had been all but nationalized, and the National Economy was on its knees -- probably in worse condition than 1933, when Franklin Roosevelt entered Office.
Within little more than a year, after the advent of the Harding/Coolidge Administration, the scrapping of the command economy established by Wilson, along with the first of a series of severe tax decreases, the economy had not only recovered, but had begun the greatest economic expansion in the history of the United States (Impressive run-on sentence, is it not?).
Of course, of that all ended a fairly short time later, with the election of Hoover (fine personal friend of Franklin Roosevelt and a Wilson Functionary, who had no business calling himself Republican) and the re-establishment of the "Progressive" agenda, with all its high taxation, onerously meddling government interference, and general misery.
None of this is detailed Matt, I realize. But do a little digging of your own. If you're at all objective, you'll see that I'm an obsessive cross-checking, fact-checker who knows what he's talking about.
Don't take my word for it.
Check it for yourself.
And if you can, you'd do well to avoid the "opinion" pieces.
you're welcome to your views on abortion, and feel free to live your life by those principles. obviously, not everyone sees an unborn fetus as equivalent to human life. since the discrepancy is so vast it, and regulating it such a fucking disaster, it clearly needs to remain safe and legal. if 90% of people disagreed with this i might reconsider, but considering 60% of the overall population still thinks it should be, i'm inclined to say it's a personal decision.
regarding fiscal conservatism - well, i used to consider myself one. but the many of the current policies, particularly about taxes, trouble me greatly. taxes shouldn't just move in one direction. it's an adherence to orthodoxy, which offends my progressive sensibilities. i'm down with decreasing our debt, but rather slowly and pragmatically. and yes, across the board cuts, including the military. shouldn't that be a conservative principle? the republican's belief in supply side economics, or the gold standard, are things i'm not down with. economists across the board have crushed both arguments. while not a consensus it's an overwhelming majority. yet republicans just dig in their heels. it's akin to their belief in faith. it makes no rational sense, but it's not gonna stop them from believing it.
Alright, so facts and common sense be damned, you're just gonna' go ahead and believe what you want to.
Where have I seen this before?
Hey, anybody got a facepalm emoticon I could borrow?
are you referring to the 'facts' about abortion? your rant was rather confusing. i don't know who those people you were talking about are, and i don't care. what i do care about is the real world implications to abortion bans. it's simply unrealistic, and quite often cruel. it's the reason that the Akins of the world get busy talking about rape, b/c they are trying like crazy to square the circle. it also takes away real options available to young families. i have friends, two different couples, whose prenatal testing showed serious medical problems that would lead to serious lifelong healthcare problems, and all the effort and expense that goes along with it. they both made a decision to terminate the pregnancy. they both now have healthy young babies. now some might find that choice repugnant. that is their right, and if they choose to make a different decision in their own life then that's up to them. but my friends made a difficult decision, and it was theirs to make. and their lives are infinitely better for making it. should they have been forced to bring to term an unhealthy baby b/c of the notion that at 8 weeks it's a full human life? i say no.
So now you're accusing me of incoherent raving.
Where do you see a rant, Matt?
I reviewed my post, and I can't even count as much as a single exclamation point.
I think you might be exaggerating, maybe just a little.
At least from my perspective, I made a rational, reasonable argument.
Since you missed the point Matt, I'll try to clarify things a bit.
Margaret Sanger was a woman who helped to found the so-called Progressive Movement at the turn of the Twentieth Century. She was highly influential in that Movement.
She was a very loud and repulsive racist eugenicist who strongly advocated the complete elimination of all non-Caucasians inside and outside the United States, and that was exactly her purpose when she founded the Planned Parenthood organization.
Her ideas also became very popular in Europe, where they were adopted by several influential individuals.
Of course, the one I referenced in particular, was Adolf Schicklgruber.
You may not think you know about the vile little corporal, but I am confident that you do.
That's right Matt, and that is the real World.
That is precisely the place all of the grandiloquent rationalizing you espouse will lead us if it is allowed to go unchecked.
Don't think that I don't understand the individual costs that you referred to, because I very much understand, and I am also very much sympathetic to the plight of individuals who have to deal with those problems.
I have friends also, Matt.
One of those friends gave birth less than a year ago, to a son with profound Down's Syndrome.
She did this in spite of the fact that a lot people - including her own mother - advised her against it.
Ask her now, and she will tell you that she made the right decision, cost of that decision be damned.
He's a really neat little kid.
Now, would you care to define the term; "fully Human"?
when i referred to your rant, it was regarding the historical figures you mused about. i could still care less about them, as they have nothing to do with my viewpoint on the issue or current affairs.
as for your friend with the handicapped son, i think that's a wonderful story, and i'm happy they are happy with their decision. that doesn't mean everyone else should be forced to make the same one.
fully human = being born. before that you are something else, hence we don't add 9 months to our birthdays. and in the earlier stages, there is little to no brain activity. certainly not anything close to consciousness. and since i don't believe in a soul there is nothing that prevents me from viewing the termination of a pregnancy as perfectly moral. and again, you don't have to share my views (we're freethinkers, right?) and you can live your life as you see fit, abortions or not. but just like religion, i see no reason why someone else's views on a subject that doesn't effect their lives should concern them. why can't the holier than thou crowd on this issue simply mind their own business?
That Mr Greenberg, is some SERIOUSLY impressive rationalizing.
And you lecture me about respect for science.
History is very much a science Mr Greenberg, and the decisions and events of the past bear very heavily on events today.
You want science, Mr Greenberg?
There's your science, Greenberg.
That first procedure is commonly done at twenty-four and twenty-five weeks -- or even later.
Well after fetal brain function is fully established.
Honestly, I don't want to live in a secular theocracy any more than I'd care to live in a religious theocracy.
If you need a definition of secular theocracy; well, given that Socialism is a secular religion, any Socialist Autocracy would logically have to be a secular theocracy.
If you need an example of what a secular theocracy looks like, take a look at The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Better yet, take a gander at Adolf Hitler's National Socialist Reich.
They played a lot of that rationalizing horseshit there, too.
Seems to me, we'd be almost better off living under a bunch of Mullahs than a slimeball like Stalin or Hitler.
i already asked you to call me Matt, so at this point i can only assume you're being deliberately rude.
and i have no idea why i'm arguing with an "atheist" who believes in something called a secular theocracy.
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The Canadian Cancer Society applauds the Federal Government for its announcement today that it will no longer oppose the inclusion of chrysotile asbestos in the Rotterdam Convention, an international list of hazardous substances.
Federal Industry Minister Christian Paradis made the announcement this afternoon.
"This is the right decision", says Paul Lapierre, Vice President, Public Affairs and Cancer Control, Canadian Cancer Society. "We are very pleased to see that the government recognizes that all forms of asbestos, including chysotile, cause cancer. The Canadian Cancer Society believes that all efforts must be made to eliminate exposure to asbestos and to eliminate asbestos-related diseases.
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This week only one new movie came out and it was "Hot Pursuit" starring Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara. It's not a great movie but that mixed with a series of articles lead us to the discussion of equal pay for women in Hollywood. We try to explain why they're not paid equally but ultimately come back to the fact that they should be. It's not just Hollywood, it's all over the world, but why not start in Hollywood at least.
Our Undisputed Classic was actually a Cult Classic Guantlet that Sean laid down before Josh and I. We were tasked to check out the Netflix Cult Classic section and each check out a movie for the first time. Sean loved "Goon," I appreciated and "Reanimator" and Josh loathed "Wet Hot American Summer" despite the fact that both Sean and I love the flick.
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A 12th Baltimore police officer has pleaded guilty to being involved with a towing kickback scheme, prosecutors said Thursday.
Rafael Concepcion Feliciano Jr., a 31-year-old officer from Baltimore, pleaded guilty to extortion and conspiracy in a U.S. District Court hearing Thursday, according to a statement from the Maryland U.S. attorney's office.
Feliciano was among a group of officers who took money from brothers Hernan Alexis Moreno, 30, of Rosedale, and Edwin Javier Mejia, 27, of Middle River, in exchange for referring cars at accident scenes to Majestic Auto Repair, the siblings' Rosedale auto shop.
According to court records, Feliciano met the brothers in 2008 through another officer and Feliciano began directing crashed cars to their garage. Feliciano was paid for the cars he sent to their shop and was also paid to falsify police reports that embellished the extent of damage to some cars.
These falsified reports would be used by Moreno and Mejia to increase vehicle insurance claims. The total financial loss suffered by Feliciano's actions is between $120,000 and $200,000, according to the U.S. attorney's office.
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The prompt for Writing 101 today is to write about an event that takes place in a single day. Also, I will be including The Daily Post word prompts Phase, Dream, and Grain. I'm trying something with poetry and I hope the result isn't tedious.
It started in the morning ending at —
Evening; children who were born with —
A scream on their lips, removed from —
The womb; swaddled in blankets.
Life is a day and each day we spend —
One single day, representing —
A lifetime; not knowing each day —
Could end in a moments glance.
Babe once born, phase into toddler,
Sucking on bottles, weened off.
Already, personality —
Forming; individual who tantrums.
Couldn't get her way playing in her —
Pre-school; no hitting allowed there.
Prepares her for kindergarten,
Where she better know her typing.
To write her name proudly with her,
Markers scribbling future —
Artist; parent's dream but she's holding —
Building blocks; then she's finished–
Being a kid, now screaming to —
Her brother, 'stay out of my bed —
Room;' texting her friends, their all —
Nearly sixteen, appearing twenty-one.
She's been drinking since thirteen-years,
Not weird to her; she's been there before.
Degree in engineering of —
Structures; dreams building stream-lined.
Caught the eye of a man where she works,
He's ten-years her senior at his —
Prime; another engineer, they've —
Two kids, girl and a boy, on their —
Own journeys; and she's divorced.
Only thirty-five, raising teenagers,
Tiring of her career; her daughter–
Pregnant; along comes grandchildren.
She's only forty and remarries,
Her true soul mate she says, kids hate —
Him; replacing father they never see,
Grandma raising baby of her daughter.
Mom is forty-five; son marries girl,
A beautiful blond, into fine art.
Mom doesn't like her; girl's a phase.
Son has three kids and stays married.
Daughter won't talk; sends home one more —
Squalling infant for Grandma to —
Care for and work too; step-Opa glad,
Never had kids, he loves his grandbabies.
The grandbabies grow and she's pushing —
Sixty-five-years; grandkids moving —
Out; hoping they do better than her —
Sweet daughter; dead, needle marks proof.
She wants to travel, she's been all —
Over the world but only for work.
So Oma and Opa see the —
World divine; slowing down in life.
She teaches, a class or two for —
Dumb first-year engineer students,
Doesn't know how they'll fill her shoes,
But they've all this technology.
Eighty-six and she's alone; her soul —
Mate, he passed away; time speeds through,
She has a dog that keeps her happy,
But she out-lives the dog as well.
Grains of sand sifting, her time comes,
In hospital they can't believe she's,
One-hundred-and-one; she dies with —
Great-grandkids crying for their Oma.
This, is a lifetime you say not —
One single day, but you don't see,
How with such quickness, a lifetime —
Is reduced to one significant —
One magnimounous little,
Day before God; finally, wandering home.
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Novel coronavirus infection - update
10 October 2012 - No new cases of infection with the novel coronavirus have been reported since 22 September 2012. So far, after careful follow-up of close contacts of the two confirmed cases, and a heightened state of global surveillance , there is no evidence of human-to-human transmission of the virus.
The governments of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Kingdom, are continuing their work to gain a better understanding of the disease and the likely source of infection. WHO is supporting the national authorities in their ongoing investigation, and has deployed experts to Saudi Arabia and Qatar as part of an international team. These and future epidemiological and scientific studies will lead to a better understanding of the novel coronavirus.
WHO continues to work with the ministries of health and other international partners to coordinate actions for timely detection, rapid diagnosis and case management of infection caused by the novel coronavirus, should the need arise.
Based on this overall situation, WHO encourages Member States to continue with their routine surveillance to ensure early detection and rapid response to all potential public health threats. WHO will continue to coordinate routine surveillance efforts internationally.
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Arapahoe Basin hosts Enduro, Save Our Snow
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Arapahoe Basin Ski Area will host the 24th annual Enduro on Wednesday. In this legendary event, teams of two take laps on the Pallavicini (Pali) Chair from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. There are 20 designated routes from the top of the Pali lift, and each must be skied in consecutive order for the final run total to count. The record is 72 runs.
The cost of entry is $150 per team of two. The entry fee includes two commemorative T-shirts (with logo designed by A-Basin patroller Matt Norfleet), entry to the Post Race Party and – most importantly – serious bragging rights. The event is limited to 30 teams, and there is still space remaining. Online registration can be found at http://bit.ly/enduro13. A lift ticket or season pass is required for all competitors.
A-Basin will host the Enduro Post Race Party, open to all guests and competitors, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the A-Frame Lodge. The party includes beer specials, a silent auction and live music from Summit County's own High 5. Cost for the dinner is $15 for adults and $8 for children 14 and younger and includes salad, several Italian pasta dishes and dessert.
Every year, A-Basin donates all Enduro proceeds to a local family or nonprofit. This year, all proceeds from the Enduro will benefit Arapahoe Basin's own Jennifer Oliver. Oliver has been the human resources generalist since August 2010 and a Summit County resident for more than eight years. In late 2012, Oliver was diagnosed with a brain tumor and is undergoing extensive radiation treatments at the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora. Money raised from the Enduro, the silent auction and spaghetti dinner will help offset the medical costs associated with her diagnoses and treatments. For more information, visit http://www.arapahoebasin.com.
On Saturday, Arapahoe Basin will hold its annual Save Our Snow celebration to promote sustainable practices and offer information about how guests can reduce their impact on the environment. All proceeds from this event benefit the High Country Conservation Center in Frisco.
Discounted lift tickets are available at the ticket office for that day only, with $20 from each ticket going directly to the High Country Conservation Center.
Sustainability minded companies such as Friends of the Dillon Ranger District, Innovative Energy and the Colorado Foundation for Water Education will participate in the Green Village in the A-Basin base area. These organizations seek to increase awareness and disseminate information about sustainability best practices. A DJ and Summit County's own High 5 will be playing live music in the base area starting at noon.
Guests at the mountain can purchase chances to win prizes such as A-Basin season passes and lift tickets, as well as items from participating sponsors Honey Stinger, Planet Earth Clothing, New Belgium and more.
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A brief summary; the minutes of a meeting; the etiquette of diplomacy.
Protocol refers to a summarized document or the minutes of a meeting that are initialed by the parties present to indicate the accuracy of the document or minutes.
Protocol is a section of the department of state that is responsible for advising the government, the president, the vice president, and the Secretary of State on matters of diplomatic procedure governed by law or international custom and practice. Protocol is the method of officially ranking or receiving government officials.
protocol(Agreement), noun arrangement, charter, compact, concord, concordat, contract, covenant, diplooatic agreement, pact, stipulation, treaty, understanding
protocol(Etiquette), noun behavior, ceremony, code, code of behavior, conventional practice, correct behavior, correctitude, correctness, courtesy, customs, decorum, dictates, diplomatic code, form, good behavior, good form, good manners, manners, politeness, practice, prevailing form, proper behavior, proprieties, punctilio, regulations, rules, set of rules, set of standards, system of rules
See also: bill, decorum, guide, mode, practice, procedure, rule, treaty
protocolan addition or supplement to a treaty.
PROTOCOL, civil law, international law. A record or register. Among the
Romans, protocollunt was a writing at the head of the first page of the
paper used by the notaries or tabellions. Nov. 44.
2. In France the minutes of notarial acts were formerly transcribed on registers, which were called protocols. Toull. Dr. Civ. Fr. liv. 3, t. 3, c. 6, s. 1, n. 413.
3. By the German law it signifies the minutes of any transaction. Eneye. Amer. Protocol. In the latter sense the word has of late been received into international law. Ibid.


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- martyred on 1 September 1936 in Mataró, Barcelona, Spain
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NEW YORK -(MarketWatch)- U.S. gasoline futures prices have dropped nearly 20 cents a gallon, with declines in seven of the past eight trading days, as more U.S. crude becomes available for refining into gasoline and fears about a shortage of refining capacity fades.
Helping to spur the downturn is the early reversal of a pipeline's flow that will allow refiners in the key Gulf Coast region greater access to crude, the basic feedstock for gasoline. North Sea Brent crude, the international benchmark crude which holds sway over gasoline prices, already has fallen by more than $7 a barrel this month, in part due to the increased competition.
Reformulated gasoline blendstock futures fell 2.8 cents Tuesday to settle at $3.1593 a gallon and has repeatedly traded near seven-week lows in recent days. Many traders said futures prices may have hit their summer peak in late March, at near $3.42 a gallon, and see prices falling further in coming weeks, easing worries at the pump.
The decline in gasoline futures comes at a time when the U.S. oil benchmark, West Texas Intermediate, has climbed 0.51% this month. But gasoline, both domestically and internationally, is priced off Brent crude.
Friday, Brent crude lost $0.55 a barrel, or 0.46%, to settle at $118.16 a barrel for June delivery on the InterContinental Exchange. West Texas Intermediate settled $0.44, or 0.43%, higher at $103.55 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
The move by Enbridge Inc. ENB, +1.22% and Enterprise Products Partners LP EPD, +0.57% to reverse the Seaway Pipeline in mid-May will free up crude oil bottled up in landlocked storage at Cushing, Okla., keeping pressure on Brent prices, analysts said. The companies accentuate the reversal's effect by moving up the date when it will begin carrying crude from Oklahoma to the Gulf Coast, to about May 17 from June 1.
Meanwhile, the market may not be suffering from a reduction of refining capacity on the East Coast.
"Refinery operations may not be as much of a problem as thought," said Kyle Cooper, managing partner at IAF Energy Advisors. "Overall inventories are in good shape and certainly demand has been lackluster."
The federal Energy Information Administration warned in late February that the closure of several refineries in the Northeast U.S. and offshore facilities that export to the region threatened to significantly tighten supplies and could case price increases.
But ConocoPhillips COP, +1.75% said it is talking with Delta Air Lines DAL, +0.53% about restarting its Philadelphia-area refinery, which was shut last year, and Sunoco Inc. SUN, +1.92% said it is in talks with Carylye Group, a private equity firm, about the possibility of a joint venture to keep open the 330,000-barrels-a-day Philadelphia refinery it planned to shut this summer if it couldn't sell it.
East Coast refiners are highly reliant on crude oil that is priced close to Brent, which had been inflated by the planned July 1 European Union embargo on Iranian crude oil imports. Analysts said that after Iran agreed to further meetings with the permanent five members of the United Nations Security Council and Germany on its nuclear weapons program and Saudi Arabia boosted output, prices have tumbled in recent weeks.
Jim Ritterbusch, president of Ritterbusch and Associates, said that if U.S. oil inventories continue to grow, RBOB could drop to $2.95 a gallon in two to three weeks.
If the market can avoid refining snags and a flare-up of the Iran tensions, prices may have peaked.
"We are always subject to supply disruptions and geopolitics, but if we avoid that, it's quite possible we've seen the top," said IAF's Cooper.
The national average retail price of regular gasoline fell 5.2 cents a gallon to $3.87 a gallon in the week ended Monday and dropped below the year-ago level for the first time since Oct. 19, 2009, the Energy Information Administration said.
Michael McNamara, analyst at MasterCard's SpendingPulse division, said gasoline prices would need to drop to around $3 to $3.30 a gallon to spark a significant rise in demand from a year ago. Year-to-date demand is off 5.5% from the comparable period in 2011, according to SpendingPulse data.


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PUYALLUP - Quarterback Dalton Ritchey scored three rushing touchdowns, cornerback Tayler Angevine returned an interception 80 yards for a score, and Pacific Lutheran made a statement Saturday with a 41-27 Northwest Conference football win over nationally ranked Willamette at Sparks Stadium.
With their third consecutive victory, which came at the expense of previously unbeaten Willamette, PLU (4-2 overall) moves into second place in the Northwest Conference standings with a 3-1 record. Linfield leads the circuit with a 3-0 record, while Willamette (6-1 overall) drops back to third in the standings at 2-1.
Depending on which poll you choose, the Bearcats came into the game ranked either No. 19 (American Football Coaches Association) or No. 22 (D3football.com). They left Sparks Stadium with their first loss of the season, which came at the expense of a young PLU team that continues to make great strides as the season progresses.
Angevine, a senior cornerback, is one of the veterans on this team, and it was his interception return early in the third period that swung the momentum to the Pacific Lutheran side of the field.
Willamette trailed 19-13 at the half, but starting from its own 29-yard line had marched down the field with the opening possession of the second half and seemed poised to take the lead. Instead, Angevine stepped in front of Josh Dean's pass in the left flat for the interception and went the distance for Pacific Lutheran's third interception return for touchdown this season.
Ritchey, Pacific Lutheran's sophomore quarterback, was 16-for-28 passing for 197 yards with one touchdown and one interception. He also led his team with 65 net yards on 14 carries, including touchdown runs of 2, 5 and 3 yards.
The Lutes drove 73 yards in eight plays for the game's opening score, Ritchey sneaking in from the 2-yard line, and they got the ball back on Willamette's next offensive play when Dalton Darmody intercepted Dean and returned the ball 11 yards to the 18-yard line. A personal foul penalty set up PLU at the 9-yard line, and on third-and-goal from the f5-yard line Ritchey leaped high before being flipped and landing in the end zone.
Those were just two of the five touchdowns scored in the second quarter. Willamette came right back down the field, going 64 yards in 11 plays with Dean scrambling right to avoid trouble before finding Terrell Malley for a 5-yard scoring strike.
Connor Cummings returned the ensuing kickoff 41 yards to the Willamette 46-yard line, setting up a short six-play drive that ended when Ritchey hit Kyle Warner, slanting across the middle, for 17 yards and a touchdown.
Trailing 19-7 with just 1:33 left on the first half clock, Willamette raced 75 yards down the field in just six plays before Dean took a quarterback draw in from the 5-yard line. Dean threw for 60 yards during the drive.
The Lutes and Bearcats alternated touchdowns in the second half, with Angevine getting things going for the home team with his "pick six."
Willamette's response was an impressive nine-play, 76-yard drive that ended on Taylor Wyman's 8-yard scoring run. Dean found Jake Turner for 31 yards on a second-and-29 early in the drive.
And then it was PLU's turn. Starting from their own 25-yard line, the Lutes put together a methodical 12-play drive that included eight rushes and four passes. Niko Madison swept around the left end and cut it back behind a convoy of blockers to find the end zone from one yard out.
Showing why it is one of the nation's highly ranked teams, Willamette came right back down the field, going 70 yards on eight plays to score on Dean's 41-yard pass to Jake Turner. Dean rolled to his right and lofted the ball to Turner, who found a hole in the PLU secondary.
That set up one of the most exciting plays in the game, and as it turned out the most impressive drive by either team in a game with plenty of scoring marches.
The Willamette kickoff squirted through the hands of Connor Cummings, who got out to the 1-yard line after fielding the ball in the back of the end zone. With 14:13 showing on the clock and clinging to a 34-27 lead, Pacific Lutheran proceeded to go 99 yards on 18 plays while taking 9:52 off of the game clock.
The Lutes were aided by a Willamette personal foul penalty that moved the ball out to the 16-yard line. The scoring march included three third down conversions and a fourth down conversion. Senior fullback Cody Pohren carried the ball four times for 23 yards, while Ritchey converted a third-and-nine with a 10-yard run and a third-and-eight with an 11-yard pass to Daniel Herr. With his team facing a fourth-and three at the Willamette 16-yard line, Brandon James carried the ball eight yards and a new set of downs. Ritchey finished the drive with a 3-yard run, giving the Lutes their final 14-point advantage.
Willamette had one last gasp with a 14-play drive that ended with a Dean incompletion following a quarterback sack by Mychael Tuiasosopo. After that, PLU ran out the final 1:14.
The Bearcats compiled 440 total yards, including 335 through the air, compared to 354 total yards, 197 passing, for PLU.
Dean, who came into the game averaging nearly 400 passing yards per game, was 26-for-40 for 335 yards with two touchdowns and two interceptions. Malley had six catches fro 58 yards and Turner made four catches for 101 yards. Wyman led the ground game with 43 yards on six carries.
Ritchey's passing yardage included four throws to Warner for 62 yards and three catches apiece by Herr and Lucas Sontra. Ritchey gained 65 of PLU's 157 net rushing yards.
Pacific Lutheran's defense, which came into the game with 20 takeaways in five games, added three more in the form of two interceptions and a fumble recovery. Sean McFadden and Greg Hibbard both had nine tackles from the safety position for the Lutes, who also got two quarterback sacks from Tuiasosopo.
PLU returns to Northwest Conference action next Saturday when it plays the winless Puget Sound Loggers. Kickoff is set for 1 p.m. in Baker Stadium.


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Police blotter: 4-8-13
Editor's note: The police blotter is written from incident reports provided by local police departments and the Summit County Sheriff's Office. All individuals named are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
A man was arrested on charges of assault and criminal mischief March 30, after he called authorities to report an altercation with another driver.
The man told dispatchers he was the one who had been assaulted by a woman in another car who had spit in his face and threatened to kill him, according to a report from the Summit County Sheriff's Office.
But when authorities arrived on scene, the other driver and witnesses to the incident suggested he had been the aggressor and had smashed a window in the woman's car, causing flying glass to injure her and her young son, the report states.
The woman and the witnesses told deputies the man had pulled in front of the woman's car going well over the speed limit on Highway 6 in the Keystone area, and repeatedly brake-checked, almost causing her to lose control of her vehicle, the report states.
She told authorities she motioned for the man to pull over, which they both did, walked over to his car and yelled at him for his driving, the report states, before returning to her own vehicle. She said her son began yelling that the other driver was approaching their car with a gun. The man admitted using the object – which turned out to be a screw drivier, not a gun – to smash the woman's window, sending glass over the woman and her son, who both suffered cuts to the face and arms in the incident, according to the report.
The man told authorities he broke the window because he was afraid the woman had a weapon in her car. He then drove away and called 911 say he'd been assaulted, according to the report.
The report states the man did not have any injuries and was vague and continually changed his story. He was charged with two counts of third-degree assault, criminal mischief for breaking the window, which was valued at up to $1,000, and reckless driving.
A man who reportedly complained to his neighbors that the noise from a party they were having was keeping him awake, was reportedly jumped by some of the party-goers.
The man told authorities he'd gone to the upper floor of his apartment complex just after 2 a.m. April 1, to ask people who were having a loud party above him to quiet down, according to a report from the Summit County Sheriff's Office.
He said a few of the men he confronted followed him back to his apartment and began punching him, the report states. He suffered injuries to his face and was reportedly acting "spacey" and incoherent while speaking with authorities, according to the report.
Deputies were able to track down two individuals suspected of involvement in the incident and both were charged with third-degree assault.
The mother of an elementary-aged student who came to school with a black eye was arrested March 13, after an investigation indicated she had hit the child, who was asleep at the time, according to a report from the Silverthorne Police Department.
The children were removed from the home and the mother was arrested and taken to jail, according to the report.
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Thanks to Michael of MindLoveMisery's Menagerie for hosting this Tale Weaver's Prompt based on the figure of death. Emily Dickinson's poem "I could not stop for Death" and John Donne's Holy Sonnet – "Death Be Not Proud" seem to say exactly what needs to be said for me on the prompt. And whatever I do, I can't think of something I could say better than these poets due regardimg the personification of death. Please enjoy!
1. Because I could not stop for Death (479)
By Emily Dickinson, (1830 – 1886)
Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.
We slowly drove – He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility –
We passed the School, where Children strove
At Recess – in the Ring –
We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain –
We passed the Setting Sun –
Or rather – He passed us –
The Dews drew quivering and chill –
For only Gossamer, my Gown –
My Tippet – only Tulle –
We paused before a House that seemed
A Swelling of the Ground –
The Roof was scarcely visible –
The Cornice – in the Ground –
Since then – 'tis Centuries – and yet
Feels shorter than the Day
I first surmised the Horses' Heads
Were toward Eternity –
Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,
Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee do go,
Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.
Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,
And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well
And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?
One short sleep past, we wake eternally
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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Thanks to NEKNEERAJ of MindLoveMisery's Menagerie for hosting this week's photo prompt.
Come in, come play, the water's warm and fine,
We're all having fun, clothing unnecessary.
Any nymph knows her body is pleasing.
But little we find young men who wander,
To visit us a while — let yourself rest.
Let your body be beguiled by us.
We're girls full of laughter; blossoms —
To eat which are tasty and keep you near,
From leaving too soon; it's a party here,
A never ending happy hour, wine flows —
From Dynosios cup; so drink up, sit back.
Time stands still and you're forever a youth;
Caught in this moment, we'll all feel —
Forever blissed; stay amongst us spirits,
Of the earth, of trees, grass, wood, and water.
We care for the forest, lush paths followed,
Hideaways, treasures, meant to last.
Gift of the gods, for us having beauty,
Like yours; but we offer you — explore.
Spend your eternity here, we see so few,
Such attractive men, so stay find pleasure,
Aid us keeping the world alive and safe.
For future generations, for our —
Children, and plenty of youthful men.
Your life could be dreamlike, could be blissful.
Come in, come play, the water's warm and fine.
©Mandibelle16. (2017) All Rights Reserved.


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The General Panini Projection
The general Panini projection is an adjustable projection, or more properly a parameterized family of projections, that can render convincing simulated perspectives on fields of view up to 150 degrees wide, or even wider in some cases. It was first implemented in early 2009 in the panorama viewer, Panini, and in limited form in the panotools library. This page describes the improved version that was added to the library in January 2010.
For best results the general Panini projection should be used interactively: adjust the control parameters until your image looks just right. Much of this discussion assumes you will be using the 'fast' preview window in the 2010 version of hugin for that. However, with experience it is possible to get very nice results with the command line tool, PTmender, as well.
Your panotools and hugin must have been built after 18 January 2010, from panotools source version SVN 1235 and hugin source version SVN 4911 or later.
Appropriate Images
The general Panini projection is suitable for subjects that have a lot of architectural content, especially interiors. It works best for views that have a single central vanishing point -- straight down a city street, or the aisle of a church, for example. However it is useful for oblique interior views too. It does not work well on close-up exterior views of large buildings, especially when looking toward a corner of the building.
Visual Effects
A Panini perspective seems to combine telephoto and wide angle views in one image. Compared to a rectilinear view of the same width, the center is magnified and depth seems flattened (telephoto effects). At the same time, the field of view can be very wide, without the peripheral distortion (stretching) that is so noticeable when a rectilinear perspective is pushed too far. And somehow the view tends to look even wider than it actually is.
Distortionless Wide-Angle Photos
One of the best uses of the general Panini projection is simulating rectilinear perspective, without peripheral distortion, on fields of view typical of wide angle to super-wide angle camera lenses, say in the range of 75 to 120 degrees. A comparatively small adjustment to the rectilinear projection is enough, compression 25 to 50%, plus a hard squeeze to straighten prominent transverse lines. The appropriate squeeze strength depends on the inclination of those lines: 100% if they are horizontal, as little as 10% if inclined 45 degrees.
Perspective Views from Fish-Eye Photos
Hugin with the general Panini projection is an excellent 'de-fishing' tool. Load a fisheye image; adjust pitch and roll angles to make the true vertical vertical in the view, then adjust the g.P. parameters for a good perspective.
Tip: if vertical lines look curved in the g.P. view, changing the lens focal length may straighten them. This just means that the fisheye lens model in panotools doesn't match the projection function of your lens very well. For even better results, you could set the lens fov and a,b,c distortion parameters to values that were optimized on a well-aligned spherical panorama made with the same lens.
Ultra-Wide Views from Panoramas
With a properly aligned panorama as the source image, the g.P.p. can be used like any other projection to render views in various directions, but it is best for views where the line of sight is level, not tilted up or down. You can use hugin's cropping feature to eliminate unwanted areas at the top or bottom, however to get a perfectly framed view it is often necessary to crop the rendered image later.
It is often possible to render a convincing view 180 degrees or more wide, where the subject has a strong central perspective. Only the soft squeeze can be used on such wide fields, as the hard squeeze has singularities (goes to infinity) at +/- 90 degrees.


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While most of the Christians were fleeing the city, abandoning all their worldly possessions, an old deaconess, Apollonia, was seized. The crowds beat her, knocking out all of her teeth. Then they lit a large fire and threatened to throw her in it if she did not curse her God. She begged them to wait a moment, acting as if she was considering their requests. Instead, she jumped willingly into the flames and so suffered martyrdom.
There were many churches and altars dedicated to her. Apollonia is the patroness of dentists, and people suffering from toothache and other dental diseases often ask her intercession. She is pictured with a pair of pincers holding a tooth or with a golden tooth suspended from her necklace. St. Augustine explained her voluntary martyrdom as a special inspiration of the Holy Spirit, since no one is allowed to cause his or her own death.


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Epidemiology for Researchers Performing Genetic/Genomic Studies
Epidemiology for Researchers Performing Genetic/Genomic Studies
Natcher Auditorium, NIH Campus
July 18, 2008
Epidemiology for Researchers Performing Genetic/Genomic Studies, was a short course for investigators and trainees doing research in human genetics, particularly studies employing genomic analyses of samples from human populations. It was conducted by the Office of Population Genomics, NHGRI, on July 18, 2008, in Natcher Auditorium, Building 45, NIH campus.
The course consisted of eight lectures aimed at familiarizing researchers studying the human genome with basic principles and potential pitfalls of epidemiology as applied to human genome research. It drew from traditional genetic epidemiology and statistical genetics, but emphasized the application of genomic technologies to unrelated subjects in human populations. Focus was on the design, conduct, analysis and interpretation of the epidemiologic studies most feasible and appropriate to address the genomic questions of interest.
These videocasts and slides are provided as an educational tool for genetic investigators interested in learning more about applying epidemiologic concepts to their work. The videocast can be found at http://videocast.nih.gov/Summary.asp?File=14595 .
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Flood risk management structures in Aarsal and Ras Baalbek save lives of the locals and the Syrian refugees in Bekaa region
"The damage that we used to witness before did not happen this time" wrote the Mayor of Aarsal to UNDP on the 12th of May 2014 after his village and the neighboring village of Ras Baalbek witnessed heavy rainfall resulting in floods of extreme intensity between the 7th and 9th of May.
- The talk of the town in Aarsal is that the reservoirs saved the locals and a large number of Syrian refugees currently in the area from a major disaster. This was conveyed in the letter of the Mayor of Aarsal to UNDP.
The common watershed of Aarsal and Ras Baalbek is subject to a particular rain event. It is caused by a combination of humidity and hot temperatures leading to evaporation and quick condensation into a high intensity rainfall leading to floods that flow through the Aarsal and Ras Baalbek watersheds. These floods used to cause heavy destruction of property and damages to houses, orchards, shops and lead to the death of livestock and the injury of people. An estimate of direct damages resulting from each flood event can reach up to 5 million dollars.
The UNDP project "Flood risk management and soil conservation for livelihood recovery in Baalback-el Hermel" that was funded by the Lebanon Recovery Fund and implemented in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture, designed and built flood protection measures in the forms of reservoirs and walls to intercept flood waters and reduce the damage in the concerned villages.
Between the 7th and the 9th of May 2015 heavy rainfall hit the "jourd" (drylands) of Aarsal and Ras Baalbek resulting in a flash flood that flowed, as reported by eyewitnesses, for 15 hours. The flood event is considered exceptionally extreme because of the length of time the flows lasted and the fact that it covered both the watershed of Aarsal and Ras Baalbeck. The strongest reported flood in recent times lasted for only 7 hours covering only one watershed. It was reported that the flood went through the constructed flow channel and did not cause any damage to the village.
The talk of the town in Aarsal is that the reservoirs saved the locals and a large number of Syrian refugees currently in the area from a major disaster. This was conveyed in the letter of the Mayor of Aarsal to UNDP.