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Amplitude Modulation (AM) is the name given the to the technique of varying the amplitude or loudness of one signal known as the carrier (typically an audio signal, swinging both above and below 0 volts) with a second signal called the modulator. In the typical amplitude modulation (AM) scenario, a low frequency oscillator with a positive voltage (say, between 0v and 5v, or maybe something smaller such as between 1v and 2v) is fed into the control input of a voltage controlled amplifier to add vibrato to an audio signal passing through it. Technically, this is known as a two-quadrant multiplier or modulator, as any negative swings in the modulation signal are ignored; when patching tremolo, you may need to make sure an offset voltage is being added to your LFO to make sure the sound doesn't cut out on the lower excursions of the LFO's waveform.
A special case of amplitude modulation is ring or balanced modulation, (or four-quadrant modulation for the really geeky), where both the carrier and modulator are bipolar, swinging both above and below 0v. The result is a more complex set of component tones that don't follow typical "musical" spacing based on octaves above the fundamental that harmonics usually follow. Namely, the modulation frequency is both added to and subtracted from the carrier's frequency; the resulting harmonics replace the original carrier and modulator. Say the carrier was a sine wave (only the fundamental harmonic present) at 600Hz, and the modulator was a sine wave at 100Hz. The result would be a tone that had frequency components at 500 and 700Hz.
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IU Bloomington joins NSF-funded STEM course transformation project
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Computer science faculty at Indiana University Bloomington will participate in a five-year study funded by the National Science Foundation and designed to improve science, technology, engineering and math education at research universities.
The IU Bloomington Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, in collaboration with seven other institutions, will take the lead on a $2.2 million NSF grant to support teaching initiatives that foster engaged, active learning for undergraduate students enrolled in large STEM courses.
The Transforming Education, Stimulating Teaching and Learning Excellence -- or TRESTLE -- project will be led by the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Program at the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning on the Bloomington campus.
"The TRESTLE project focuses on increasing the number of students graduating within the STEM disciplines," said George Rehrey, director of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Program. "By embracing a learner-centered approach to their teaching, faculty fellows who collaborate on this project will contribute to research that supports better learning outcomes for students both in STEM and other large introductory courses as well."
Each year for three years, a separate cohort composed of four faculty members from the School of Informatics and Computing will participate in two of the center's most enduring and successful initiatives, the Course Development Institute and a Decoding the Disciplines seminar. It is anticipated that by the end of three years, up to eight computer science courses will have undergone transformation.
"This project will promote high-impact practices that engage undergraduate students, which lead to increased understanding, confidence and student success," said Dennis Groth, vice provost for undergraduate education and IU Bloomington project lead. "These practices are key to fulfilling the campus strategic plan objectives, but the study could have a larger impact on higher education across our nation."
Computer science faculty fellows participating in the 2016 cohort are Mehmet Dalkilic, Bryce Himebaugh and Jeremy Siek. The co-founders of the Decoding the Disciplines model, David Pace and Joan Middendorf, will facilitate the seminar. Eric Metzler from the Kelley School of Business, along with Lisa Kurz and George Rehrey from the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning, will conduct the Course Development Institute each of the years.
The project is one of several collaborations among university partners in the Bay View Alliance, a network of nine universities in the United States and Canada working to improve teaching and learning in higher education. Other TRESTLE partners include the University of Kansas, Queens University of Ontario, the University of British Columbia, the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of California-Davis and the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Mary Huber and Pat Hutchings, assessment specialists from the Bay View Alliance, will author a case study of the project, visiting IU Bloomington before and after the program to evaluate its success. Faculty surveys, classroom observations and focus groups will provide the bulk of the data for their final case study.
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The internet contains a wealth of resources that can aid students during their lesson time and during their own time outside teaching hours. Ever since the internet was utilized by schools around the world Chithambara College has remained excluded, relying on external facilities and outdated methods of communication.
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LEDES.org was established by the LEDES Oversight Committee in 1998 as a global resource for standards created by the LEDES Oversight Committee to be used in the exchange of information between law departments or other legal organizations and the outside counsel and other legal vendors providing services to them.
The LEDES™ (Legal Electronic Data Exchange Standard) Oversight Committee ("LOC") is a voluntary, global not-for-profit organization dedicated to creating and maintaining standards for the exchange of legal information between legal organizations and the legal vendors providing services on their matters. The LOC is dedicated to using open standards which cater to no one organization or group of organizations to uniformly satisfy the complex needs of the legal industry based on 5 basic principles: keep it simple; make it unambiguous; diverge from existing formats as little as absolutely necessary; only ask for information the law firm is typically able to provide from their financial system; and meet the needs of organizations to the maximum extent possible consistent with the first four criteria.
When legal ebilling first started in the US, "keeping it simple" was easy to achieve. This is harder to do with the spread of legal ebilling around the globe and with the advent of alternate fee arrangements.
Global eInvoicing requirements, particularly those from country tax authorities, have significantly expanded the number of data points required in a legal ebill, dramatically increasing the complexity of the legal invoice file. Instead of being a file that includes only the data elements that underlie the transaction, where the receiving system could reconstruct the invoice, a legal invoice file today should include all aspects of the nature of the financial transaction between the parties.
Alternate fee agreements similarly have increased the complexity of the legal invoice file. Corporate professionals have devised some "creative" means of contracting for outside counsel services, and the legal invoice file must be able to support the transmission of this information.
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Gutsy Attorney Outs a Too-Powerful Texas CPS Baby Mill Agenda
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"The role of CPS has changed over the years," (Julie Ketterman of KHA Lawyers, PLLC) said. "They have become too powerful and have shifted their focus from offering guidance and support to acting as a punitive force." Historically, CPS would provide in-home services to help stabilize families in need of assistance and maintain children in their home. Preventing child abuse and ensuring a safe home environment was the ultimate goal.
The 1960s and 1970s saw a marked increase in public awareness of child abuse. This led to amendments to the Social Security Act, which expanded the scope of CPS nationwide. In 1974, Congress passed the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, which provided federal funds to the states for the prevention of physical abuse, neglect and sexual abuse. Then, in 1997, Congress passed the Adoption and Safe Families Act, which established strict timelines for returning children in foster care to their parents or for terminating parental rights, thus freeing the children for adoption. In some cases, states are authorized to dispense with efforts to reunify the family and move directly to termination of parental rights.
"This legislation started with good intentions," Ketterman said, "but it was the seed for corruption." Ketterman alleges that CPS frequently oversteps their boundaries, opting to remove children from their homes, placing them outside the home and in to foster-to-adopt homes for monetary advantage. "CPS profits every time they place a child outside the home for adoption," Ketterman said. "It has stopped being a resource for families in need and has instead turned into an adoption mill."
Solutions, however, are hard to come by. "We have to attack corruption on a case-by-case basis," Ketterman said. One victory against CPS corruption is the recent passing of SB 1876, a bill recently signed by Governor Greg Abbott into law on June 19. The law will go into effect on September 1 of this year. "The bill specifies that attorneys ad litem, guardians ad litem and mediators in CPS cases will be appointed on a rotating basis," Ketterman said. "This prevents corrupt judges from appointing attorneys they have in their pockets." In many instances, the same handful of lawyers are being assigned multiple CPS cases, for which they have profited handsomely – all at the taxpayers' expense. "These lawyers are making massive amounts of money off these court appointments," Ketterman said, "and many are high campaign contributors to the judges that appointed them."
The bill was introduced by Senator Judith Zaffirini. Ketterman assisted with the research committee for the bill, sharing her knowledge and opinions in interviews with the committee. "This bill is extremely important," Ketterman said. "It affects taxpayers in the sense that the clerk will have to make public how much the government and individual judges – elected by the taxpayers – pay these ad litem attorneys."
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- Lead counsel on behalf of major international airline in case brought by former long-term employee alleging race discrimination and retaliation in his discharge. Obtained summary judgment on both claims. (N.D. Ill. January 2017).
- Zayas v. Rockford Memorial Hospital, 2014 WL 325260 (7th Cir. Jan. 30, 2014). Lead counsel on behalf of hospital in action brought by former employee alleging age and national origin discrimination and hostile work environment. After obtaining summary judgment in the district court on all counts, 2013 WL 3224600 (N.D. Ill. June 25, 2013), the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its Opinion on January 30, 2014, affirming the district court in all respects.
- Sheedy v. Adventist Hinsdale Hospital, 2014 WL 240331 (N.D. Ill. Jan. 22, 2014). Lead counsel on behalf of hospital in age discrimination action brought by former employee. On January 22, 2014, U.S. District Judge Joan Gottschall granted the hospital's motion for summary judgment and dismissed the case with prejudice.
- Fredericks v. Adventist La Grange Memorial Hospital, 2014 WL 64332 (N.D. Ill. Jan. 8, 2014). Lead counsel on behalf of hospital in age discrimination action brought by former employee. On January 8, 2014, U.S. District Judge James Holderman granted the hospital's motion for summary judgment and dismissed the case with prejudice.
- Brooks v. City of Chicago, et al., 2012 WL 13570 (N.D. Ill. Jan. 4, 2012), and Case No. 2012 L 1895 (Circuit Court of Cook County Jan. 24, 2014). Lead counsel on behalf of the City of Chicago and former Mayor Richard M. Daley in federal and state court actions arising from plaintiff's separation from employment as the City's Fire Commissioner. On January 4, 2012, U.S. District Judge Dow granted defendants' motion to dismiss the action, including dismissal with prejudice of plaintiff's federal constitutional claims under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983.On January 24, 2014, after plaintiff re-filed certain tort claims in state court, Circuit Judge James O'Hara granted defendants' motion to dismiss and dismissed all pending claims with prejudice.
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- Jaffer v. City Colleges of Chicago, et al., No 09 C 5710 (N.D. Ill. Sept. 29, 2011). Lead counsel on behalf of City Colleges of Chicago and one of its college presidents in an employment discrimination suit filed by a tenured professor alleging that she was subjected to a hostile work environment based on her race, national origin and Muslim religion and was retaliated against for making internal complaints of discrimination under Title VII and 42 U.S.C. Sections 1981 and Section 1983. On September 29, 2011, on cross-motions for summary judgment filed by all parties including the plaintiff, U.S. District Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer denied plaintiff's motion for summary judgment and granted summary judgment to City Colleges and the college president.
- EEOC v. Scrub, Inc., No. 09 C 4228 (N.D. Ill. Nov. 9, 2010). Served as court-appointed Consent Decree Monitor in connection with a four-year Consent Decree resolving race and national origin hiring discrimination lawsuit filed by the EEOC.
- Lewis v. City of Chicago, et al., No. 04 C 6050 (N.D. Ill. Dec. 2007). Lead counsel on behalf of the City of Chicago in employment discrimination action filed by a female police officer alleging gender discrimination and retaliation under Title VII and Section 1983. After a two-week jury trial in December 2007, the jury returned verdicts in favor of the City on all counts. Seventh Circuit affirmed on December 21, 2009 (No. 08-2877).
- Armainsson v. Rockford Health System, et al., No. 07 C 50081 (N.D. Ill. Apr. 2, 2010). Lead counsel on behalf of Rockford Health System (RHS), a 3,000-employee health system, in a lawsuit filed by a terminated physician and former RHS department chair alleging violations of the FMLA and state law claims for retaliatory discharge and civil conspiracy. On April 2, 2010, U.S. District Judge Frederick Kapala granted defendants' motion for summary judgment on the FMLA and conspiracy claims, and also dismissed the state law retaliatory discharge claim.
- Wilkins v. Riveredge Hospital, 2004 WL 906010 (N.D. Ill. April 26, 2004), aff'd, No. 04-2356 (7th Cir. May 10, 2005) (Unpublished Order). Lead counsel in Title VII reverse discrimination suit filed by former mental health counselor who alleged that he was terminated and then not rehired by Riveredge Hospital due to his gender. On April 26, 2004, Judge Shadur granted the Hospital's motion for summary judgment and dismissed all claims. The Seventh Circuit affirmed in an Unpublished Order on May 10, 2005.
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By Ifeanyi Izeze
The rhetoric is local but the message is global that there is an evolving pattern of behaviour of our top military commands (particularly Nigerian Army) that is becoming characteristic and needs an urgent attention to redress before it becomes the status quo.
Now it's no longer just a domestic argument that the leadership of the Nigerian Army either because of perpetual gilts and other temptations needs some lessons on "back to basics," as the international community has raised alarm on the force radical programme either by omission or outright design to militarise Nigeria's democracy.
If the UK and EU governments that were invited by the federal government to monitor our elections criticised the direct involvement and misdemeanour of army officers during the election in Rivers state or any other part of the country, is it the duty of the Chief of Army Staff/Army spokesperson or the Minister of External Affairs/Presidency to reply to those governments?
It may look trivial but it's not that the army under a democracy now talks directly to foreign governments on issues that borders on diplomatic relations between Nigeria and those countries.
How do explain that the Nigerian Army on its own went ahead to warn foreign governments against interfering in what it calls "Nigeria's domestic issues", describing a statement credited to United Kingdom, which accused the military of undue involvement in the governorship election in Rivers State as baseless, untrue and capable of misleading unsuspected members of the public?
The army in a statement entitled: "Re: UK expresses concern over military involvement in Rivers poll," made available to the media, by its spokesman, the Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col Sagir Musa, warned that any allegation against the army by foreign governments must be confirmed from "appropriate quarters" before jumping to conclusions.
As said, "Foreign interests are, therefore, enjoined to be mindful of interfering in our national internal affairs, especially when there is no credible evidence.
"Any allegation against the Nigerian Army must be confirmed from appropriate quarters before jumping to conclusions. The Nigerian Army, as a responsible organisation, wishes to debunk such misrepresentation in order to set the record straight."
The question to ask is: when some of these same foreign governments and observer missions pass their verdicts on the presidential election, did they require confirmation from "appropriate quarters"? And by the way, what does the army mean by appropriate quarters- army spokesperson, Chief of Army/Defence Staff or the Presidency?
Whether the army wants to hear this or not is immaterial, the actions of its personnel in breach of their conventional code of conduct in Rivers State were very widespread, loud and visible as recorded in videos and shared on several social and conventional media platforms. So which other evidence is the army high command looking for before accepting that its officers and men not only intimidated and harassed foreign observers but were caught on camera hijacking ballot boxes by themselves and also provided cover for some thugs that did the same during the election?
It is laughable that the Army could allege that intelligence available to it revealed political thugs wore military uniform to perpetrate crimes during both the Feb 23 presidential election and March 9 elections in Rivers state. This is a mere cover up of outright licentious behaviour which is now becoming characteristic of its officers and men taking orders from their command and control centres.
As alleged by the army, "Credible intelligence available to the army confirmed the kitting of political thugs with military uniform and arming of same to impersonate soldiers and perpetrate various crimes in the furtherance of the activities of their political bosses.
"These thugs were wrongly viewed as real military personnel on various social media channels thereby bringing the reputation of the Nigerian Army on several occasions to disrepute. The army understands that most civilians caught in the callous onslaught of these murderous thugs might not be able to distinguish between genuine soldiers from impersonators, especially when they were armed with military-type weapons."
The military should tell us whether it is no longer an offence for civilians to wear full army uniforms, carry guns and ride in army number-plated trucks and pickups. Why did the genuine soldiers collaborate with (and not confront) the fake soldiers in their state wide escapades?
Is the army saying the thugs wore military uniform, carried well labelled Nigerian army AK-47 and K-2 rifles and were using well-numbered army trucks (Tata and Hilux) also provided by politicians? Was the GOC of the 6th Division that personally led the team that occupied the INEC office and harassed foreign and local observers in Port Harcourt, also a fake soldier?
The soldiers in vehicles numbering about 20 that stormed the palace of Amanyanabo of Okochiri Kingdom, Ateke Tom, were they also fake soldiers? Five guests of the monarch were reportedly arrested and taken to Bori Camp, was that also done by fake army officers?
The team that went to Buguma to arrest Asari Dokubo in his family home, were they fake soldiers also armed and kitted by politicians? Haba!
It is curious that many Nigerians are not seeing what is unfolding. They deceive themselves by believing that it only happened in Rivers state and some other states in the South –south, without acknowledging that it is a well-crafted template that is going to spread across the country if not checked now. Mark my word!
All the observer missions, foreign and local cannot be accusing the military if they did not observe involvement of soldiers in what the military should not be involved in. We should not forget that The EU observer mission also accused the Nigerian Army of being at the "centre of voter fraud in the volatile Rivers state elections," Saying "observers, including EU observers, were denied access to collation centres in Rivers, by military personnel. This lack of access for observers compromises transparency and trust in the process."
The army top command is just insulting the intelligence of Nigerians. So we now need to ask for the identity card of a soldier before we recognize him/her as genuine? The Nigerian Army has become a huge joke under the Buratai and Buhari leadership and the earlier we insist they go for lessons on "back to basics", the better for this country and its democracy. God bless Nigeria!!
IFEANYI IZEZE: [email protected]


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Composer Matthew Creer presents his multi media works for solo computer, percussion duo, outdated electronics for performance group and debuts his new duo…Eagle Masters. Featuring Ctrl – Z, Nava Dunkelman and…….videos of eagles.
About Matthew
Matthew Creer (b. 1982) is a composer and electronic musician based in San Francisco, CA. His short bios are often written in a form of experimental poetry that reflects his unique use of rhythm and pitch materials called just intonation. These poems are also directly related to his incessant urge to tell stories, create narration and be rather noisy, as he learned to do while growing up near Yosemite, California.
Matthew uses computer coding languages developed for musicians and artists to write pieces that are often for social media platforms such as Instagram and YouTube. He also performs live computer music and has written acoustic music for performers such as Ryan Ross Smith, Crystal Pascucci and the Eclipse Quartet.
He has been teaching in the music department of City College of San Francisco since 2014.
About Ctrl – Z
Ctrl-Z is an electronics trio made up of Ryan Page, Daniel Steffey, and Nick Wang. Using an array of modular synthesizers, computers, homemade circuitry, junk, and other performers, they play composed material written, or adapted for, live electronics and video; often bringing in other performers to participate in their realizations. Music in their repertoire includes works by John Cage, Pauline Oliveros, Luc Ferrari, Ryan Ross Smith, among others. They are currently accepting new pieces submitted by composers, as well as realizing more classic works by pioneers of the genre.
About Eagle Masters
Videos of Eagles. Noise Music.
About Nava
Nava Dunkelman is a Bay Area based percussionist and improviser. Born in Tokyo, Japan and raised in a multi-cultural environment by an American father and Indonesian mother, her musical interests span the globe from Japanese taiko to Indonesian gamelan to American marching band, and from classical to contemporary to the avant-garde. Nava studied percussion under Eugene Novotney at Humboldt State University before attending Mills College, where she studied with William Winant, Fred Frith, Maggi Payne, Zeena Parkins, and David Bernstein.
Since graduating with a degree in music performance in 2013, she has performed and collaborated with William Winant, Fred Frith, John Zorn, Ikue Mori, George Lewis and many others. She has performed classical and contemporary pieces with the William Winant Percussion Group, inkBoat, The Luna Ensemble, San Francisco Girls Chorus, among others.
She also formed the improvisational trio Dapplegray, as well as electro-percussion experimental noise duo IMA, and improvisational duo DunkelpeK.
Nava enjoys discovering her own musical language by exploring experimental approaches to communication, progression and space.
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I read an article not long ago by the Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman in which he described the renewed battle between so-called freshwater economists (so named because they are largely based at the University of Chicago and other Midwestern universities) and saltwater economists (based primarily at Princeton, MIT, Berkeley and other coastal universities). The freshwater economists are disciples of Adam Smith and espouse the free-market and rational actor models. The saltwater economists align with John Maynard Keynes and his belief in the need for regulation in financial markets and that people aren't rational actors.
The past 50 years have been dominated by freshwater economists who had a reverential faith in the power of free markets (Smith's "invisible hand," which only had three mentions in his writings, yet is treated like gospel) and the rationality of people in their financial decisions. Given what has happened to our economy in the last decade, noted for its "irrational exuberance" and multiple bubbles (e.g., Internet, housing, mortgage), it's hard to believe that any of these "efficient market" adherents still have jobs, much less credibility in how the economy actually works.
I would love to put these economists on the couch and explore what is going on in their heads that enables them to observe the objective reality of the recent economic devastation, yet still hold as sacred their most basic, yet obviously flawed, beliefs about a free-market-driven financial system.
As I have read more about the Smith followers, what seemed like pretty obvious questions kept popping into my head:
• What universe do these people live in?
• Do these economists live in complete isolation without interaction with actual human beings?
• Have they never been in love, been gambling, or had sex?
• Have they never seen people get angry, frustrated, depressed, excited, or joyful and then observed their subsequent behavior?
If we ever had answers to these questions, we would understand the how of their devotion to an economic mindset that is clearly not supported by economic reality. These questions then led me to ponder the why of their delusional dedication:
• Are these economists such number-crunching automatons that they never even consider actual human behavior in the real world of finance?
• Are they so doctrinaire as to miss the obvious?
• Are they so enamored of the sheer elegance of their mathematical theorems that they reject outright and without consideration what is obvious even to laypeople?
What I find ironic is that, by rejecting the irrationality of human behavior, they are in fact affirming its irrationality. To see ourselves as rational beings is the epitome of irrationality.
Of course we aren't rational, and you don't need a Ph.D. in Economics or Psychology to realize that (though an advanced degree in economics from the University of Chicago seems to have the opposite effect). Human beings, for all their cerebral development, still act most of the time the way animals and humans have for millions of years, namely, as irrational, unpredictable, and not particularly intelligent creatures.
What I find so remarkable is that there is any debate at all. As a former psychology professor of mine once noted, "All psychology does is label things that we already know to be true." In the Bizarro world of freshwater economics, that adage would be modified to, "All economics does is reject things that we already know to be true."
Thankfully, the emerging field of behavioral economics, which is the melding of psychological and economic thinking, has generated a growing body of research demonstrating that we are, in fact, incredibly irrational beings who act in ways that are not only poorly conceived, but that are often counterproductive and sometimes even self-destructive. Examples of such irrational behavior can be found in a variety of well-researched cognitive biases:
• Bandwagon effect: we believe or do things because others believe or do them.
• Confirmation bias: seeking out information that supports our beliefs.
• Illusion of control: our belief that we have more control over outcomes than we actually do.
• Déformation professionnelle: looking at things through the lens of one's profession while ignoring broader perspectives.
The last cognitive bias seems particularly fitting for freshwater economists who seem to have been so busy developing their fancy theories in their laboratories that they forgot to look out their windows and see what was actually happening in the real world. The list of cognitive biases that we succumb to goes on and on with most having direct implications for understanding our financial behavior.
Finally, it is instructive – and scary – to consider the degree of hubris or denial on the part of the freshwater economists, whom I would assume are very intelligent men and women. They continue to cling to now-discredited theories, even when confronted with overwhelming experimental and real-world evidence that demonstrates what just about everyone else in the world can see with their own two eyes: humans, including economists, are not rational!


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I've gotten a lot of comments and questions about my posts on toxins in clothing and where to find non-toxic clothing. It occurred to me that some readers may not be aware that Debra's List currently profiles over 80 companies that sell all, or predominantly, non-toxic clothing. You can either look through the entire list or […]
Lisa Powers
Portable Air Purifier
January 28, 2020
Question from Karen I have been looking at the IQ Air Atem personal space air purifier: https://www.iqair.com/us/support/tech-specs/atem-desk Do you have any experience with this? I would like to use it in our car (offgassing new car chemicals) and hotel rooms. Lisa's Answer I don't have personal experience with it but I have looked very closely at […]
Lisa Powers
Salad Bistro
November 21, 2019
My garden is like a salad bistro from November through April. The weather is perfect and nothing says "al fresco" like a Florida winter. In my garden, I grow a variety of lettuce, brassicas, and roots–all perfect for a healthy salad. However, eating salad every day can get boring. Yes, I said it out loud. […]
Rust and Beans
November 4, 2019
Rust is a fungal disease that commonly occurs in Florida where it's warm and humid. Most beans are susceptible to Rust. The disease generally occurs only during prolonged periods of warm, wet and/or humid weather. Rust refers to a variety of fungus, exists in at least 35 pathotypes and is extremely variable. Symptoms develop on leaves […]
The Nerdy Farm Wife
Ginger & Lemon Balm Honey Syrup for Colds & Flu
January 24, 2020
Learn how to make a yummy ginger and lemon balm honey syrup to help fight cold and flu bugs. Herbal syrups are one of the easiest (and tastiest) things you can make for your natural medicine cabinet. Basically, they're composed of a strong herbal tea, mixed with at least an equal measure of raw honey. (The […]
Jan @ The Nerdy Farm Wife
Word of the day
January 29, 2020
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for January 29, 2020 is: allege \uh-LEJ\ verb 1 : to assert without proof or before proving 2 : to bring forward as a reason or excuse Examples: The lawsuit alleges that the company knew about the faulty switches but sold the product anyway. "While the ACCC does […]
AV Club Wiki Wormhole
Watch Trixie Mattel ask Tiffany "New York" Pollard to be her "weed mom"
January 29, 2020
Two skinny legends. One "brunch." As Trixie Mattel puts it near the end of this 12-minute video, "You don't know how many gay men would have slit my throat and put this wig on to come here today."Read more...
Allison Shoemaker on News, shared by Allison Shoemaker to The A.V. Club
Reasonable Discussions: January 29
January 29, 2020
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The A.V. Club
Blake Lively gets the Bond treatment in the overcooked The Rhythm Section
January 29, 2020
The Rhythm Section, a thriller about revenge and geopolitics, wastes no time establishing a tone of po-faced cheese. Armed with a silenced pistol, Stephanie Patrick (Blake Lively) creeps up a stairway in Morocco, past a parrot, and up behind an old man in a wheelchair. She appears to be some kind of stylish assassin,…Read more...
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky on Film, shared by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky to The A.V. Club
If you want an exclusive, this Dispatches From Elsewhere clip is for you
January 29, 2020
Based on our first look at the show, AMC's Dispatches From Elsewhere promises to be a trippy but grounded show: Philadelphia residents Peter (Jason Segel), Simone (Eve Lindley), Octavio (André Benjamin), and (Janice) Sally Field take a break from the ordinary to play a game that's part scavenger hunt, part mystery,…Read more...
Danette Chavez on News, shared by Danette Chavez to The A.V. Club
Task & Purpose
All the countries where ISIS remains a threat, in 8 maps
January 29, 2020
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Conversation. In a series of bloody campaigns from 2014 to 2019, a multinational military coalition drove the Islamic State group, often known as ISIS, out of much of the Iraqi and Syrian territory that the strict militant theocracy had brutally governed. But the Pentagon and the United […]
Brian Glyn Williams, The Conversation
4 Marines recognized for heroic rescue of mother and 2 daughters caught in a deadly rip current
January 29, 2020
In June, 2018, when a group of Marines noticed a family was being swept along by a powerful rip current at Atlantic Beach in North Carolina they immediately swam out to save them. Now, more than a year later, those Marines have been recognized for their actions. On Tuesday, Staff Sgt. Leary K. Reichartwarfel, and […]
James Clark
Homestyle Chicken Noodle Soup
January 26, 2020
Classic chicken noodle soup that will leave you feeling so good, so warm, so cozy. Perfect for sick days and cold nights!!! It's the dead of winter. 33 degrees F all week. Snow and ice piles everywhere. And it's only January, meaning we basically have about 3-4 months of winter left. And now that I […]
Chungah @ Damn Delicious
Carne Asada Nachos
January 22, 2020
BEST NACHOS EVER! Loaded with the easiest, most tender carne asada, sharp cheddar, pico de gallo, avocado, jalapeno + drizzle of queso! Guys. Prepare to have your MIND BLOWN to the best nachos of 2020. CARNE ASADA NACHOS WITH A DRIZZLE OF QUESO. Yes and yes, inspired by these Mexican street tacos using the quickest […]
Chungah @ Damn Delicious
Fish Fingers recipe
January 27, 2020
Fish Fingers so perfectly golden and crunchy it's hard to believe they're BAKED rather than fried! Breaded white fish baked in the oven using a secret method to make them super crispy outside and tender on the inside, with the extra bonus of a mess-free way to coat the fish in breadcrumbs. Clean fingers – yay! Say bye-bye... […]
Poached Chicken – Juicy Guarantee!
January 24, 2020
This is the foolproof way to make the JUICIEST Poached Chicken you will ever make. Guaranteed results, dead easy, cooks itself, this is a cracker of a chicken breast recipe that everyone should know! Use the chicken for any recipe that calls for cooked chicken – sandwiches, salads, pastas, pies, wraps and burritos. Slice it,... […]
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|Vintage cigarette ad - now banned
Okay – time for some lateral thinking.
Smoking is said to be a habit and cigarettes are said to be addictive, which is why, we are told, smokers smoke. So if it is so addictive, why do we non-smokers not smoke?
Is it because we chose not to smoke, don't like it, can't afford it and worry about the health risks? Or is it because anti-smoking propaganda has made it impossible for us to give it a proper trial? Is part of our failure to take up smoking due to our exposure to a massive, long-term campaign of aversive behaviour control?
The answer to this last question is probably no, but with caveats. I'm not seriously suggesting that non-smokers don't smoke purely because of intense propaganda and social stigma. I tried smoking and didn't enjoy it, so never took it up. It's also expensive, it makes your clothes smell and so on.
I have been subjected to years and years of high-level aversive propaganda just as smokers have. So to what extent do I remain a non-smoker because of this endless aversive conditioning? I'd like to think I'm a non-smoker through choice and I imagine almost all non-smokers see it that way. We have to don't we?
Of course it is a matter of choice, but maybe not entirely. It's not a bad idea for non-smokers to think laterally and imagine how we have been affected by the propaganda. Because we must have been affected – it is reflected in changing social attitudes. Many non-smokers are priggish about their abstinence to a degree which would have been remarked on a few decades ago. No longer.
We non-smokers claim it is a matter of choice, but we would say that wouldn't we?
We non-smokers claim it is a matter of choice, but we would say that wouldn't we?
So how do some non-smokers, especially pressure groups such as ASH, get away with behaving so viciously towards smokers? Making people stand outside to smoke for example. Banning smoking in pubs – even banning smoking areas. What was wrong with smoking areas? Why did we push it so far? Why the push, push, push? Was it all down to health?
Maybe not. Maybe the vicious behaviour of some non-smokers towards smokers can be put down to effective propaganda. Millions of non-smokers seem to have been successfully conditioned to condone the endless harassment of smokers. Not just persuaded to condone a form of behavioural apartheid, but to applaud it.
It all feels a bit iffy to me.
Of course there are very serious health risks with smoking, but having your attitudes tweaked by the state is also a serious matter and maybe we non-smokers should think about that too.
Of course there are very serious health risks with smoking, but having your attitudes tweaked by the state is also a serious matter and maybe we non-smokers should think about that too.


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There's something not quite right with the link, but if you scroll down, the Newsletter is just past the weird stuff.
There's something not quite right with the link, but if you scroll down, the Newsletter is just past the weird stuff.
The website for the new Summer School is under construction. Some of the links in the bar at the top of the page lead to more information, some are still being organised. This was as of 21st February.
Understanding and Tackling the Roots of Insecurity:
Terrorism, Transnational Organised Crime and Corruption
The Standing Group on Organised Crime (SGOC)'s section is organising a section at the ECPR General Conference in Glasgow in 2014 and would like to welcome panels/individual papers' proposals on topics related (but not limited to) to the following topics:
1. Critical Reflections on the Concepts of Terrorism, Organised Crime and Corruption
2. Policy-Making Responses to Terrorism, Organised Crime and Corruption
3. The Nexus between Terrorism and Organised Crime
4. Violent Extremism and Radicalization
5. Law Enforcement Responses to Terrorism, Organised Crime and Corruption
6. Emerging Forms and Manifestations of Organised Crime
7. Contemporary Border Security Challenges
8. Non-State Responses to Terrorism, Organised Crime and Corruption
A selection of best papers presented at the SGOC section in Glasgow could be published in a Special Issue of The European Review of Organised Crime (EROC). For more information about the journal, please visit SGOC webpage.
Contact and submission details:
The deadline for full panels and individual papers is 15 February 2014. All submissions should be made online through the MyECPR part of the ECPR website. Should you have questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact Yuliya G. Zabyelina, University of Edinburgh (firstname.lastname@example.com) or Helena Farrand Carrapico, University of Dundee (email@example.com).
Editor of Nigerian newspaper the Sunday Trust provides an account of the present situation regarding Boko Haram
Cybercrime marches on. Customisable off the shelf software being created for blackmailers and others without computer skills, but good ideas on how to make money.
Only 33 ever built, but 100 on sale…
Normally, we look at Liverpool here, but Manchester is equally interesting. This article seems to hint at a rudimentary capo di tutti capi in Salford…
Interesting study of the going price for stolen computer and other details on criminal forums suggests that there's a glut of information and that the price is therefore going down.
Same criticisms could be made of organised crime strategies too. Politicians ignore the academics who have done the research and surround themselves with groupuscules who reinforce their own prejudices. "Evidence-based policy?" "I know best, thank you!"
Title owes more to sub editor than to the article. Some interesting stuff about internal developments in Al-Shabaab.


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A small village chapel tucked away in the heart of Grittleton.
The chapel was opened in 1721 and is a largely unaltered example of an early 18th century chapel with its fittings. There are galleries at either end and a small burial ground alongside.
You can download a short guide to Grittleton Chapel here.
Grittleton village is south west of Malmesbury about half a mile north of the M4.
Nearest rail station Chippenham, from where taxis are usually available.
The chapel is entered off The Street through iron gates beside a red phone box and the village noticeboard. The gate and chapel are normally locked, but we welcome visitors and groups.The key is available on application to the Neeld Arms pub 100 metres away in Grittleton High Street or from the volunteer keyholder on 01666 822730.
Please park in the village street or Village Hall car park - and please don't try to drive down the short track to the chapel.
The Street
nr Malmesbury
United Kingdom
Grittleton Strict Baptist Chapel opened in 1721. It was somewhat old fashioned in style for its time and domestic in character; on the east side are four mullioned and transomed windows which might have been built 100 years earlier.
The interior is well preserved. A central aisle leads to a pulpit and seat for a preacher. There are box pews and even a diminutive child's pew. There are galleries at each end. Baptism of the congregation was performed in mill ponds nearby, which probably explains why there is no baptismal font within the chapel.
There is a small burial ground adjacent, now closed to burials. Grittleton is a relatively untouched example of an early 18th century chapel. The land for the chapel was given by a previous owner of Grittleton House - the mansion next door - and access was originally across the estate. In the nineteenth century a new owner of Grittleton House walled off the chapel, hence the secluded enclave in which the chapel is today set - in the heart of the village but far from obvious.
You can download a short guide to Grittleton Chapel here.
Grittleton was acquired by the Historic Chapels Trust in 2011 with lighting and basic heating.
A programme of repairs has been carried out and in 2015 the entrance gates and tottering gate piers were rebuilt, making access on foot possible.
HCT's custodianship of Grittleton Chapel is informed by a Conservation Statement which can be downloaded here.
The chapel for individual and group visits and is available for hire for concerts and events.
HCT is grateful to the volunteer committee who undertake maintenance of the burial ground and look after the chapel, making it welcoming to visitors. The chapel is available to hire for events and makes a delightful and intimate concert venue, seating up to 70. There is no WC or kitchen. To enquire about hiring Grittleton Chapel please use the contact form opposite.


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How were ashes imposed in the early church?
That's the first question of an online quiz focusing on Lent and Easter that starts today, Ash Wednesday,A new question will appear each weekday through the season, and participants can select from a multiple-choice format and check their answers. Click here to begin.