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No, Joe Biden will not take away your hamburgers
| New York
President Joe Biden spent only a weekend as the "Hamburglar" in the conservative media world.
But while the false story lasted, it moved with a damaging speed and breadth, another example of a closed ecosystem of information affecting public opinion.
An academic study published a year before Mr. Biden became president was used to speculate that he would place limits on how much red meat Americans can consume as part of his stated goal to sharply reduce greenhouse gas pollution.
It was a potentially potent, visceral argument with punchy cable TV octane, namely that Mr. Biden was trying to limit people to eating one hamburger a month – an allegation that could seriously undermine his climate change plan before he even announced it.
There was one main problem: He's said no such thing.
Yet two days after the Daily Mail brought up the topic in a report last Thursday, Rep. Lauren Boebert, a Colorado Republican, was tweeting, "Why doesn't Joe stay out of my kitchen?"
The Mail's story, by Emily Crane, was headlined "How Biden's climate plan could limit you to eat just one burger a MONTH, cost $3.5K a year per person in taxes, force you to spend $55K on an electric car and 'crush' American jobs."
Ms. Crane cited a January 2020 study by the University of Michigan's Center for Sustainable Systems, which discussed how a transition to a more plant-based diet by Americans could cut down on greenhouse gas emissions. The paper estimated the environmental impact of a 90% reduction in beef consumption.
Martin Heller, a research specialist at Michigan and one of the study's authors, said there was no connection between the research and Mr. Biden's plans.
"The conversation so quickly gets pushed to these extremes and I think that's an effort at poking at people's fears," Mr. Heller said. "That's the frustrating part to me – that we can't have a conversation about how to get creative in this sort of middle space."
The Britain-based Daily Mail defended its story while criticizing others in the media.
"President Biden has announced an extremely ambitious target for carbon emissions reduction that will have a massive effect on the American economy and way of life without giving a single detail of how he expects to achieve it," a newspaper spokesperson said.
"Unlike the rest of the overwhelmingly White House-whipped American media, the Mail attempted to explore this gaping hole at the center of the president's announcement," the representative said.
In fact, Mr. Biden has discussed several initiatives to help reach his climate goals, including increasing the use of wind and solar power and slashing emissions from fossil fuels such as coal and oil.
The newspaper's spokesperson said that "we made it very clear these were steps that MIGHT have to be taken."
But as the story spread, the qualifiers were deemphasized or disappeared entirely.
The conservative website Gateway Pundit ran a story Friday with the headline "Biden's climate requirements: cut 90 percent of red meat from diet; Americans can only eat one burger per month."
The body of the story itself was less incendiary, quoting the Daily Mail and using the qualifier "could."
While a graphic on Friday's "Fox & Friends" talked about what will be required to meet Mr. Biden's green targets, host Ainsley Earhardt said, "He wants to cut out 90% of the red meat that you all eat."
Later, Fox News anchor John Roberts said: "Say goodbye to your burgers if you want to sign up for the Biden climate agenda. That's the finding of one study."
A graphic onscreen, with a picture of a cheeseburger, read: "Up in your grill. Biden's climate requirements: cut 90 percent of red meat from diet, max 4 lbs. per year, one burger per month."
The story spread rapidly on social media. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted Fox's "Up in your grill" graphic, adding, "Not gonna happen in Texas!" Idaho Gov. Brad Little retweeted Mr. Abbott, adding, "Idahoans also have beef with this agenda and for dinner!"
It was Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene who dubbed Mr. Biden "The Hamburglar," a reference to a character in McDonald's commercials.
There were some 23,000 examples of terms like Mr. Biden's climate plan, requirements, or mandates appearing together with "meat consumption" in the context of political conversations online between Thursday and Monday, according to the media intelligence firm Zignal Labs. "Red meat" also had some 59,000 mentions in political chatter.
"This is pure propaganda," said Jennifer Grygiel, a Syracuse University communications professor who specializes in disinformation.
There is little incentive for politicians and others to check their facts before posting on popular social media platforms, and those platforms aren't doing it for them, Ms. Grygiel said.
Once the false claim gets into people's heads, it's hard to dislodge. Many targets of the story are unlikely to see fact-checks, said John Cook, a research fellow at the Monash Climate Change Communication Research Hub.
Republicans have been frustrated in trying to find lines of attack that will stick against Mr. Biden in his first 100 days in office. Many in the conservative media world have also continued to spread lies about widespread fraud in the 2020 election.
Also this past weekend, the New York Post reported that migrant children entering the United States across the southern border were getting copies of a book from Vice President Kamala Harris in a welcome kit. The Post has since corrected the story to say there has been only one known time that a migrant child got Ms. Harris' book.
The reporter who wrote the Post story, Laura Italiano, tweeted late Tuesday that she had resigned from the paper. She called the article "an incorrect story I was ordered to write and which I failed to push back hard against."
On Sunday, Biden spokesman Mike Gwin posted on Twitter a photo of a smiling Mr. Biden grilling steaks at a campaign stop, and linked to a CNN fact-checker who called claims about the president proposing limits on meat consumption "completely imaginary."
The Daily Mail on Monday updated its story on Mr. Biden's climate control plans without saying what was done. The headline did not change, and a spokesperson said it was for "minor cosmetic reasons."
On Fox, meanwhile, Mr. Roberts told viewers that while the network correctly presented data from the Michigan study, "a graphic and the script incorrectly implied it was part of Biden's plan for dealing with climate change. That is not the case."
A Fox spokeswoman on Tuesday would not discuss the network's editorial decision-making, including whether a journalist checked with the Biden administration before reporting on the issue.
This story was reported by The Associated Press. Ali Swenson reported from Seattle. Associated Press writer Jill Colvin in Washington contributed to this report.


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Congratulations to Jason Page, Ryan Kelly, Keqi Tang, and Dick Smith whose article "Ionization and transmission efficiency in an electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry interface" is presently at the top of the Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry's "25 Hottest Articles" list.
The article reported results that will help improve electrospray ionization, a prominent ionization technique for a broad range of chemical and biological applications of mass spectrometry. They investigated ionization and transmission efficiencies on the electrospray ionization interface to better understand how these factors affect mass spectrometry sensitivity. The researchers also characterized effects of the ES emitter distance to the inlet, solution flow rate and inlet temperature. Overall, this work provides a foundation for improving ESI interfaces and optimizing ES conditions to improve efficiencies.
Portions of the research were supported by the NIH National Center for Research Resources, the NIH National Cancer Institute, and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Experimental portions of this research were performed in the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy national scientific user facility located at PNNL.

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GM CEO Mary Barra announced that the automaker has created a new global product integrity unit to ensure that a "situation like the ignition-switch recall doesn't happen again."
Speaking at the New York Auto Show, Barra acknowledged that GM still has a lot to do to repair the damage caused by the botched recall of 2.6 million cars.
"We know the world is watching," she said, "and we know we'll be judged by our actions."
General Motors (GM) recalled the cars in February for a problem with the ignition switch could cause the car to turn off while driving, disabling the airbag, anti-lock brakes and power steering. GM has admitted that its engineers detected the ignition switch flaw as early as 2004, and said the defect has caused at least 13 deaths.
The automaker acknowledged that it should not have taken a decade for it to recall the affected vehicles, and has suspended two engineers as part of its investigation into the matter.
On Tuesday, Barra declined to comment on how many employees might have played a role in the delayed recall.
"These are real people with real careers," she said.
Barra also said that "trained technicians are working and we are in the process of repairing cars." Speaking of parts now being shipped to dealers she added, "I will tell you they will be perfect parts and 100% tested to be sure of that."
Related: GM - Steps to a recall nightmare
Barra was grilled for two days before Congressional committees earlier this month about the recalls. She also met with the family members of some people killed while driving the recalled cars and apologized to them.
Her speech Tuesday at a forum sponsored by the National Automobile Dealers Association and J.D. Power came at the start of the New York auto show, where GM hopes to get attention for some new models, including a new Corvette. It was her first public appearance since her Capitol Hill testimony.
The recall has taken up much of her time since she became the first woman to take the helm of a major automaker in January.
Barra has insisted the troubled recall was the fault of problems at the "old GM," the manufacturing entity that filed for bankruptcy 2009. Barra has insisted she and other members of the current GM management team acted quickly when they learned of the problems late last year.


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Survive. Because they've got the money and the relationships with radio. Wanna compete? Have the money and the relationships. Until the radio hegemony is broken, the major labels will sustain.
It's the curation, stupid! And the ability to garner and maintain an audience. No one wants to go where no one else is. Prior to the Internet there was very little off the grid and we were all aware of it. Now, music, like information, is infinite. Do you really want to live on Pluto?
Let's see, they get their "accurate" numbers from record stores, which are declining, and sales no longer mean anything, gross does. Look at your bottom line, not specific elements. Add up your recording and streaming revenue and tickets, merch and sponsorship dollars then tell me whether you're winning or not. Tickets are much more expensive than they used to be. And sponsorship dwarfs the dollars of yore. To focus on recording dollars is to miss the point.
Helped Universal's numbers. Read the reports. If you believe streaming is the death of music and there are no dollars involved, you're uneducated, you're probably still saying that P2P is gonna kill the incentive to record! But the truth is there are more recordings than ever and I don't know anybody who steals music anymore, why?
The bible no more! To think Janice Min can save "Billboard" is to believe Guggenheim didn't overpay for it! But focusing on pictures and celebrities in an era where viewpoint and voice matter…is to miss the point. In other words, whatever "Billboard" was it will never be again.
Losing Matt Taibbi is like your lead singer quitting the band. Just like MTV, "Rolling Stone" fumbled its digital future. Neither of these outlets mean much online. There's still a vacuum without an inhabiting music site. Wanna know why? Because everybody in music is so busy saying their stuff is better, and there's so little money involved, that anybody with a brain is in tech and all we're left with is the nerds who believe the mainstream is anathema. But the truth is, we're all gravitating towards the mainstream, it's inevitable in a Tower of Babel society, you want to find someone who can speak your language, anyone.
Will rule the future. If you're not a star, you're a nobody. Sure, fans will support journeymen, but the old saw wherein you pay your dues and you gradually climb up the ranks? It don't happen that way no more. Now either you write and play music that many can get, or you reside in your niche.
Same as it ever was. Every hit act has one. Having a great manager is more important than having a great deal, just ask the Beatles!
Look at it from the perspective of the listener… He's time constrained and only wants the best. No one has a short attention span, everybody can just separate the wheat from the chaff, instantly. Don't tell people they have to give your music time to percolate, no one's got that time. You're in the hit business whether you're radio-friendly or not. You need to create the one hit listen. Which is why Max Martin and Dr. Luke are so successful, they understand the game. You might pooh-pooh the hits, but a lot of work went into them and they're not easy to create. Making money is hard. Not because people don't want to pay, but because they don't want to pay for crap! If every one of the tracks on your album is a certifiable smash, release an LP. But it turns out the public only had time for Adele's "21."
This week's soon to be forgotten new album…BECK'S! An unbelievable publicity campaign with absolutely no sticking power. Next week there's no story. Unless your track is going to get radio play or you're constantly on the road playing it it's got a shelf life of close to zero. Your hard core fans buy it, everybody else forgets it. Tomorrow's musicians have a full time job staying in the public eye. It's your job to figure out how to do this. But the best way is to dribble out quality music. Because remember…it's about the bottom line, not anemic record sales.
Not everybody can divine a hit. Not everybody knows where the bodies are buried. Which is why the business is run by old men (and a few women!) They've got intuition. You might think you know what's going on, but you really don't. Pay your dues!
Is the second most influential artist working. The first is the rappers. Anyone can be a rapper, note I didn't say a GOOD rapper, but a rapper. Learning how to play an instrument and write songs requires a bigger investment. But people are making it. Just like Mariah Carey begat Christina Aguilera and the Melisma Maddies of TV singing competitions, we're going to have a bunch of girls singing songs from the heart. Ms. Swift is the biggest star in America, if you're not trying to replicate her success, you're looking up a blind alley. She's represents everything classic rock used to…catchy stuff sung from the heart that sets your mind free.
Is only going to get bigger. Because not everybody's a hipster and people clamor for songs that speak to their condition that they can sing along with.
Just like Netflix is the majority of bandwidth, YouTube is propped up by music. It's where fans go to testify. If they're not making videos of themselves singing your song…it's not a hit. Video is the new radio. Especially now that everybody can compete. Not everybody is listening to the same radio station, if they're listening at all. But everybody has YouTube at their fingertips and visits the site on a regular basis. It's America's radio station. Just check the views of those monster hits!
Who knows? It survives. Does it surpass hip-hop to become the dominant format? Maybe… After all, Avicii's "Wake Me Up" just became the most played Spotify track of all time. Worldwide. And it is a worldwide business, more than ever before. Everybody's got money, music is the universal language, speak it.
Do not conflate the wannabe famous no-talent youngsters with true stars. Biggest star of the under twenty set this year? Lorde, with "Royals." Yes, the less than perfectly good looking geek with the nerdy boyfriend who speaks her mind and truth to power. If you think it's about cozying up to the Fortune 500, you're still living in the last decade, or admitting to yourself your music doesn't capture the zeitgeist, and therefore most people are not interested in it, or can enjoy it today and then forget it. Quick quiz… Name two songs from Jay Z's Samsung album! Better yet, two songs from Beyonce's new LP! How about two from Springsteen's! Those three albums had reams of press, but none of them have stuck. Sticking is the key, not mainstream media coverage, certainly not paid for by an electronics company that's hipper than your tunes.
Soon to be dead on the road. We've got somewhere between five and ten years left. See 'em now, before they lose their voices or die. We're in the middle of a transition wherein the younger acts are generating the touring dollars. It's happening.
Will continue to have no place in the music business, because art can't be quantified and one hit record blows all your projections to hell. Sure, controlling costs and knowing where the dollars are is important, but not as much as great music. There's no soul in tech, but soul is the foundation of music.
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I never thought I was the kind of person who would be fired.
I'd been waitressing since my freshman year. The restaurant hired me my first month in Boston, even though I'd never taken an order or carried more than two plates across a room. I think what ultimately sold them was my interview–I walked in with a firm handshake and no doubt I'd find a job, so I did.
I liked waitressing right away. My first day of training, I wanted to be the fastest learner my boss had ever seen, to earn solid 20% tips from every table and have fun doing it. Two years later, I felt pretty good. I was not only the server who'd worked there the longest, but also the server with top sales. I always planned to work at that restaurant until I finished school.
I can't pinpoint exactly where things started to go bad, or which Bad Thing was the last yanked thread that made the whole thing unravel. One by one, most of the staff had either quit or been fired. My three favorite managers left, one after another. Turnover had never been so high, business so slow, or my earnings so meager. I didn't look forward to work, but I kept coming in.
Then one morning last October, I had bad stomachaches and a forehead that could melt butter.
When I called in sick for my shift that evening, the manager said I needed to find my own replacement. Determined, I called all of my co-workers, even the ones who worked at different locations, but nobody wanted to come in. Trying to stay calm, I called my manager again, and told him I honestly couldn't do it tonight.
"People don't get sick on a Saturday night, a few hours before their shift." He continued that if I didn't come in, things would be "very bad for my future there."
If I'd been feeling sick before, it was nothing compared to the worry his words sent pinwheeling through my stomach. Just like that, I knew it was over.
I'd never been fired from anything before. I prided myself in being a great employee, a great intern, a great student, a great whatever. I actually liked learning. I always wanted to be the best I could be. Now, to be unceremoniously fired from the first real job I'd ever had? After two solid years? What was wrong with me?
It was around that fall I first realized something was different. Looking back I know it was depression settling in, but at the time, it was happening so slowly I hadn't really noticed.
I was bored with my classes, which weren't challenging enough. I was so comfortable with my friends, I never went out and looked for more. There was a time I could juggle two jobs, four classes, an internship, and all the relationships I wanted to maintain. But as I sat on my bed that afternoon, phone on my lap and tears welling in my eyes, I felt like I couldn't do anything.
I was going to be fired. Fired. I felt like such a failure.
I didn't know what else to do, so I called my dad. We hadn't talked in a while, partly because I didn't have anything positive to tell him, and I didn't want him to know how I'd been feeling. When I heard his enthusiastic "Hey little girl!" I was ashamed to have this conversation. He heard it.
"What's wrong?"
"Dad," I said. "It's not good."
He let me explain what had happened without saying a word. At the end, I finished with a horrible, nasally "So I think they're going to fire me." I stared at my toes and hoped he wouldn't be as disheartened with me as I was with myself. The dead air rang in my ears a few moments, and then he finally spoke.
"Screw them," he said. Except he didn't put it quite so nicely.
I was so shocked and so relieved I started crying, more emotional than I would've been if he'd yelled. "You're not mad? You're not disappointed?"
"Honey," he said, "you work hard. You gave them all you have. And if that isn't enough, you don't need to take this. If you aren't happy, by all means, get outta there." He paused. "Mom says, 'Tell her you're right.' So there you go. We're with you."
We talked until my tears were dry and a reluctant smile crept in. After hanging up I drank a cup of tea, watched some TV, and went to bed early, glad I hadn't been too scared or too proud to call. I got better. And two days later, I went into work for my next shift, head held high, ready to face whatever happened.
Fragility is natural. It's what makes porcelain and lace and new flowers so beautiful. It's what makes a good meringue cookie so addictive. And it's what makes us human.
In the end, I wasn't fired. But I did quit. And when I finally left that job, I learned something else—it's okay to feel breakable sometimes. It's okay to let other people see that vulnerability. Because the people who care will always be there to support you, to comfort you, and to believe in you, even when you can't do those things for yourself. Especially when you can't do those things for yourself.
And they'll be there for you when you can.
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Man torched his own home because he was fed up with the neighbours
Arsonist Kyle Petho, 20, who knew the two 18-year-old men were in their rooms, was sent to a young offender's institution for three years and four months.
Petho set his own bed alight and tried to spark a blaze in a hallway with a row of burning toilet paper rolls, Preston Crown Court was told.
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Petho admitted causing arson with intent to endanger life at the multiple occupancy house on Seven Stars Road, Leyland.
Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service said Petho contacted the police on August 29 last year at around 11.30pm and confessed to starting the fire.
When the operator asked if the occupants were in bed he replied: "I don't know and I don't care."
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One of the neighbours, Tyler Overfield, 18, heard the alarm and found the blazing toilet rolls when he opened his door.
He managed to extinguish them and thrown them outside. He and another resident managed to escape the property before fire officers arrived.
Investigations later showed Petho had set fire to his bed and that it had spread across his bedding, causing smoke damage to the bedroom and landing.
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After the case John Taylor, spokesperson for Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service, said: "Arson is a crime that can have terrible consequences, threatening lives as well as property."


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Rays 5, Royals 3
A scary moment involving Tampa Bay right-hander Alex Cobb overshadowed the Rays victory.
Cobb was taken off the field on a stretcher after he was hit on the right ear by a liner off the bat of Kansas City's Eric Hosmer in the fifth inning of the Rays' 5-3 win over the Royals on Saturday.
Rays spokesman Rick Vaughn said all tests were normal and that Cobb suffered a mild concussion. Cobb was taken to Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg, where he will spent the night.
Cobb tweeted Saturday night: ''Can't thank everyone enough for the prayers. Was the only way for me to make it out of there ok. Look forward to getting back out there.''
He put a hand on his head after being struck. Trainers from both teams and other medical staff immediately ran onto the field. Cobb could be seen kicking his legs while being examined on the mound.
The team said Cobb remained conscious the whole time.
Players on both teams had hands on their heads as a stunned silence overtook Tropicana Field after the crowd gasped when Cobb was struck. Rays head athletic trainer Ron Porterfield and Dr. Michael Reilly went with Cobb to the hospital.
Tampa Bay pitcher David Price visited Cobb in the hospital and tweeted: ''Cobber is way more tough than me!! Laughing at jokes and the name they gave him!! Please keep him and his family in your prayers.''
''He seemed pretty normal, so that was good,'' Price said after returning to the ballpark. ''Our hearts are with him. He told me that Porterfield was making him really mad on the field because he wouldn't let him stand up, so it was good that he wanted to be able to stand up. He knew where he was. It's amazing that he is in the condition I feel like he is in right now.''
Hosmer's drive bounced back toward the plate area, where catcher Jose Lobaton picked up the ball and threw him out at first.
''He hit it so hard (Cobb) couldn't even react, and it makes everybody in the stadium sick to their stomach when something like that happens,'' Royals manager Ned Yost said.
Hosmer said he didn't even want to run to first.
''I just wanted to see how he was doing,'' Hosmer said. ''You hate to see that, especially Alex having a great year. It's just scary stuff, man. I'm glad he's alright. I know he's been talking and having conversations.''
Hosmer, and Cobb's former teammates James Shields and Elliot Johnson planned to visit the pitcher at the hospital.
''I just want to go there and show him I care how he's doing,'' Hosmer said.
Cobb being hit came a month after Blue Jays starter J.A. Happ was also struck by a liner against the Rays and suffered a skull fracture. Happ was discharged from an area hospital the following day.
The sound of the ball striking Cobb - which sounded like a bat hitting a ball - could be heard in the press box and throughout the ballpark.
''I think everybody heard it,'' Rays right fielder Matt Joyce said. ''The loudest and worst ball hitting somebody I've ever seen. Obviously the same happened with Happ here and that was terrifying, too. But man, that one caught him square.''
Rays players, manager Joe Maddon and pitching coach Jim Hickey gathered at the mound during the 11-minute delay. Shortstop Yunel Escobar was in squatting position looking down at the ground, while Hickey appeared at time at be nervously pacing near the mound.
''When they rolled him over, Cobber was talking and that was a good thing,'' Maddon said. ''It's one of those really, really bad moments. It's part of the game and it stinks sometimes. Just a horrible moment to witness. It doesn't happen often, thank God, but when it does it can really give you pause. We were very lucky. Of course Alex was very lucky.''
''I thought our medical staff did a great job,'' Maddon added. ''They were beyond professional with how they dealt with the entire moment.''
It has been a tough week for Cobb, who left the team after starting Monday night's game against Boston due to the death of his grandmother. He was informed of the death after the game in which the 25-year old gave up a season-high six runs over four innings in a 10-8, 14-inning loss to the Red Sox.
''So everything's looking positive and from everything I've heard, he has a laceration on his ear and a concussion,'' Shields said. ''Hopefully it's just that.''
Luke Scott, Joyce and Evan Longoria homered for the Rays, who had lost five of six. Alex Torres (2-0) replaced Cobb and struck out four over 1 2-3 scoreless innings. Fernando Rodney pitched the ninth for his 14th save in 19 opportunities.
''I'm still shaking,'' Torres said.
Joyce hit a solo homer off Jeremy Guthrie (7-4) in the fifth that put the Rays up 4-2 and ended the Royals' 13-game stretch of limiting opponents to three runs or fewer.
''Such a heart-wrenching and terrible thing to happen on a baseball field, but at the same time you have to finish the game,'' Joyce said. ''The only thing you can do is just pray that he's OK and pray for a speedy recovery.''
Guthrie gave up five runs and eight hits over seven innings.
Scott hit his first homer since May 19, a two-run drive during the third as Tampa Bay grabbed a 3-2 lead. Scott, who had make all of his 29 previous starts this season at designated hitter, started in left field with third baseman Longoria moving into the DH role.
Longoria, bothered the past two weeks by plantar fasciitis in his right foot, was the DH for the third straight game. He made it 5-2 on a sixth-inning solo homer and also had a sacrifice fly in the first.
Longoria is expected to DH again Sunday and could play in the field when the Rays start a road trip Tuesday at Boston.
The Royals took a 2-1 lead in the second when Alex Gordon walked on a 3-2 pitch with the bases loaded and Hosmer hit a sacrifice fly. Salvador Perez cut the deficit to 5-3 on a solo homer in the eighth.
Perez extended his hitting streak to 11 games with a single in the first.
NOTES: Cobb allowed two runs and four hits in 4 1-3 innings. ... Tampa Bay LHP David Price (left triceps strain) had a 25-pitch bullpen session and could start a minor league rehab assignment Tuesday. The AL Cy Young Award winner may rejoin the Rays in late June or early July. ... Royals RHP Wade Davis (3-5) will pitch against his former team for the first time Sunday. ''I'm not going to smile ... there's no smiling,'' Davis said. ''We're trying to win games over here. We're trying to get in a good position over here.'' Roberto Hernandez (4-6) will start for the Rays.


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Floodplain Management
Floodplain management is the operation of a community program of preventative and corrective measures to reduce the risk of current and future flooding, resulting in a more resilient community. Having flood waters enter a residence can be one of the biggest nightmares for homeowners and renters alike. However, the fact that Deer Park is located close to the Gulf of Mexico and the fact that we have the Houston Ship Channel along our north city border and nearby Boggy Bayou and Patrick's Bayou to deal with, the threat of flooding is a very realistic fear.
The City of Deer Park would like to ensure that all residents are taking the necessary steps to protect themselves from floods. Listed below you will find the latest on advisories and warnings, messages from the City, and links to helpful tips on how you can keep yourself and your family safe during a period of flooding.
If a Flood is Likely in Your Area, You Should
- Listen to the radio or television for information.
- Be aware that flash flooding can occur. If there is any probability of flash flood, move immediately to a higher ground. Do not wait for instructions to move.
- Be aware of stream, drainage channels, and other areas known to flood suddenly. Flash floods can occur in these areas with or without typical warnings such as rain clouds or heavy rain.
If You Must Prepare to Evacuate, You Should Do the Following
- Secure your home. If you have time, bring in outdoor furniture. Move essential items to an upper floor if possible.
- Turn off utilities at the main switches or valves if instructed to do so. Disconnect electrical appliances. Do not touch electrical equipment if you are wet or standing in water.
Turn Around, Don't Drown
- When there's water running across the road, drivers should always turn around and choose a different route. These are the facts:
- Six inches of water can cause tires to lose traction and begin to slide.
- Twelve inches of water can float most cars. Two feet of rushing water will carry off pick-ups and SUV's and most other vehicles.
- Water across a road may hide missing segments of roadbed or a missing bridge.
- In flash floods, waters rise so rapidly they may be far deeper by the time you are halfway across, trapping you in your vehicle.
- Flash floods are especially treacherous at night when it is very difficult to see how deep waters may be or how fast water is rising.
- Floodwater weakens roadbeds. Drivers should proceed cautiously after waters have receded, since the road may collapse under the weight of the vehicle.
The Floodplain Development Division manages all development in the floodplain of the City of Deer Park by reviewing, issuing permits, monitoring, and inspecting construction activities as required by the City of Deer Park Code of Ordinances.
Contact Us
Kathy Holcomb, CFM
Floodplain Manager
Direct: 281-478-7239
Main: 281-478-7270
Monday thru Friday
8:00am to 5:00pm


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87 S.Ct. 1197
18 L.Ed.2d 282
Edward John NOWAKOWSKI, Petitioner,
James F. MARONEY, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution.
No. 222.
Argued March 13, 1967.
Decided April 10, 1967.
Daniel J. O'Hern, for petitioner.
William E. Pfadt, Erie, Pa., for respondent.
The petitioner, a prisoner in the Pennsylvania penal system, sought a writ of habeas corpus from the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. He alleged, among other things, that his appointed counsel in the state trial which resulted in his conviction had been ineffective, and that he had therefore been denied the aid and assistance of counsel guaranteed by the Constitution. Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335, 83 S.Ct. 792, 9 L.Ed.2d 799. The District Court granted Nowakowski a hearing and appointed a lawyer to assist him. Following the hearing and '(v)iewing the record of the trial and the habeas corpus hearing as a whole' the court concluded that Pennsylvania 'cannot be convicted of denying effective aid and assistance of counsel to the relator * * *.' However, the District Judge issued the certificate of probable cause necessary to allow a person in state custody to appeal a denial of federal habeas corpus. 28 U.S.C. § 2253.
The lawyers who assisted the petitioner at the habeas hearing were then allowed to withdraw by the District Court. Nowakowski subsequently petitioned the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to allow him to appeal in forma pauperis from the District Court's denial of relief. He also asked to be allowed to proceed in the Court of Appeals on written briefs and sought the appointment of counsel. That court denied the petition in the following order:
'Upon consideration of appellant's petition for leave to proceed in forma pauperis and to file handwritten briefs; and for appointment of counsel in the above-entitled case;
'It is ORDERED that the petition be and it hereby is denied.'
Following the Third Circuit's denial of Nowakowski's petition for rehearing, he sought a writ of certiorari from this Court. It was granted, as was his motion to proceed in forma pauperis. 384 U.S. 984, 86 S.Ct. 1893, 16 L.Ed.2d 1003.
We hold that the Court of Appeals erred in denying the petitioner the right to appeal after the District Judge had issued a § 2253 certificate of probable cause. It is established law that a circuit judge or justice entertaining an application for a certificate should give 'weighty consideration' to its prior denial by a district judge. United States ex rel. Sullivan v. Heinze, 9 Cir., 250 F.2d 427, 429; Sokol, Federal Habeas Corpus § 17, at 94 (1965). Cf. In re Woods, 9 Cir., 249 F.2d 614, 616. But when a district judge grants such a certificate, the court of appeals must grant an appeal in forma pauperis (assuming the requisite showing of poverty), and proceed to a disposition of the appeal in accord with its ordinary procedure.
The order of the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit is therefore vacated and the case is remanded for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
Order vacated and cause remanded.


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The Best of Switzerland with Oberammergau
With its stunning mountains, fascinating old towns, beautiful lakes, and long history, Switzerland is the perfect vacation offering something for everyone. On this Best of Switzerland tour, experience some of its most beautiful scenery and interesting cities with overnights in Zürich, St. Moritz, Lugano, Zermatt, Lake Geneva, and Lucerne. Plus, you'll travel to Germany to overnight in Munich and Oberammergau, where you'll see the world-famous Passion Play, held every 10 years.
No tour to Switzerland is complete without seeing the stunning scenery. Enjoy a scenic drive following Lake Zürich and Lake Walen through the high Alps to the tiny Principality of Liechtenstein. Also drive to the Swiss Engadine, a valley considered by many as the world's most beautiful mountain area, with deep-blue lakes, airy larch forests, mountain peaks exceeding 12,000 feet, and quaint villages. Here, enjoy St. Moritz, one of the world's most famous resorts. Other mountain scenery awaits you in Täsch, where you'll board a mountain train to car-free Zermatt, a picturesque cluster of rustic chalets beneath the famous Matterhorn. If you desire to see lakes, you'll enjoy Lake Como, stunning Lake Geneva, and Lugano, the popular subtropical resort on the shores of Lake Lugano.
You'll also visit some of Switzerland's famous cities, including Zürich, Berne, and Lucerne. Plus, to bring Switzerland to life, Globus has arranged some unique experiences for you, such as a traditional Swiss working farm in Berne. Another true Swiss experience is a trip to the top of Mount Pilatus to enjoy heavenly views. You'll even get a special souvenir cap to remember this experience! Of course, Switzerland is known for its chocolates, and on this Switzerland tour, you'll taste traditional chocolate pralines.
From stunning scenery and vibrant cities to special experiences and the incredible Passion Play, this Switzerland tour—with Oberammergau—is sure to delight.
This vacation, which includes tickets for the world-famous Oberammergau Passion Play, requires an additional deposit of $350 per person in June 2019.
City Highlights
ZURICHWelcome dinner; orientation walk of the Old Town; [LF] taste Sprüngli chocolate pralinesVADUZVisit the capital of LiechtensteinLAKE COMOPicture stopSWISS-ITALIAN LAKE DISTRICTTÄSCH–ZERMATT–TÄSCHBy mountain trainBERNEGuided walking tour, stop at the Bear Park and enjoy a panoramic view from the Rose Garden; [LF] lunch at a working farmLUCERNEWalking tour including the Lion Monument and Chapel Bridge; [LF] Mount Pilatus excursion including a souvenir cap; farewell dinnerINNSBRUCKWalk through the Old Town to the Golden RoofMUNICHOrientation, visit MarienplatzOBERAMMERGAUPassion Play
Full buffet breakfast daily; 1 special lunch with a drink in Berne, 1 lunch in Oberammergau, 6 three-course dinners with wine, including a welcome dinner in Zurich and a special dinner in Lucerne
On arrival at Zurich Airport, a complimentary transfer by hotel shuttle bus is available.
Motorcoach; mountain train. Free wi-fi available on your motorcoach and in most hotel lobbies.


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dbicadmin - utility for administrating DBIx::Class schemata
dbicadmin: [-I] [long options...]
deploy a schema to a database dbicadmin --schema=MyApp::Schema \ --connect='["dbi:SQLite:my.db", "", ""]' \ --deploy update an existing record dbicadmin --schema=MyApp::Schema --class=Employee \ --connect='["dbi:SQLite:my.db", "", ""]' \ --op=update --set='{ "name": "New_Employee" }'
Create version diffs needs preversion
Upgrade the database to the current schema
Install the schema version tables to an existing database
Deploy the schema to the database
Select data from the schema
Insert data into the schema
Update data in the schema
Delete data from the schema
compatibility option all of the above can be supplied as --op=<action>
display this help
Supply the config file for parsing by Config::Any
Supply the connect info as trailing options e.g. --connect-info dsn=<dsn> user=<user> password=<pass>
Supply the connect info as a JSON-encoded structure, e.g. an --connect=["dsn","user","pass"]
The class of the schema to load
Where in the config to find the connection_info, supply in form MyApp::Model::DB
The resultset to operate on for data manipulation
The directory where sql diffs will be created
The RDBMs flavour you wish to use
Supply a version install
The previous version to diff against
JSON data used to perform data operations
JSON string to be used for the second argument for search
JSON string to be used for the where clause of search
Be forceful with some operations
Turn on DBIx::Class trace output
Be less verbose
Same as perl's -I, prepended to current @INC
See "AUTHORS" in DBIx::Class
You may distribute this code under the same terms as Perl itself
To install DBIx::Class, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm DBIx::Class
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install DBIx::Class
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.


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Steve Holthaus, Stearns County, Earns 2018 Public Sector Award
2018 Public Sector Champion
MnCCC would like to recognize Steve Holthaus for his Excellence in Business Process Transformation. Steve was recently awarded at the Thomson Reuters Synergy Conference for Aumentum as the 2018 Public Sector Champion. Steve's outstanding contribution provided users a solution with access to all systems in one application, and allowing paperless digital access across four departments. Watch below to see Steve's award video:
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Greetings all, I hope you're enjoying your time off with friends and family. We're coming down to the last few days of the year, and that means it's roundup time! Looking back, I narrowed it down to a list of fifteen of my favorite DIY projects from 2011. Here they are in chronological order, follow the links for the full story.
#1: Budget Bathroom Cabinet Makeover
#2 New Tile Backsplash (Installation)
#3 No Sew Cloth Napkin Pillow Covers
#4 Paint Stick Starburst Mirror
#5 Goodwill Glassware to Colorful Dessert Stands
#7 Recycled Wine Barrel Planter
#8 Framed Ferns
#11 Reversible Cloth Placemats & Napkins
#12 Sparkling Wine Glass Charms
#15 Faux Bois Vases
For more DIY Projects from the past year, be sure to check out the Project Gallery.
Another fun Before & After roundup tomorrow, see you then!


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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Hewlett-Packard Co. said Thursday that it aims to cut another 11,000 to 16,000 jobs by October, bringing the total number of planned layoffs to a maximum of 50,000 and nearly doubling the largest payroll reduction ever for the 75-year-old technology giant.
HP's move revises upward a previous target of 34,000 job cuts. In May 2012, eight months after former eBay Inc. CEO Meg Whitman took the reins, HP unveiled the chief executive's initial restructuring plan, which called for a headcount reduction of 27,000.
When the program was first announced, the company had nearly 350,000 employees. As of October, it had 317,500.
Whitman said the extra cuts are being made because the company sees further opportunity to cut costs, not because of a forecast decline in demand.
"I would say I'm feeling more confident because we have seen a stabilization of revenue," she told analysts on a conference call. "The high single-digit declines are over."
She also said she doesn't anticipate further cuts.
The Palo Alto-based company said the reductions will save an extra $1 billion annually by the fiscal year through October 2016 and reap 2-3 cents per share of savings in the year through October 2014.
Even so, analysts worry that the company's recent good fortune, especially in a recovering market for personal computers, might be short-lived. The company acknowledged that Microsoft Corp.'s end of support for its nearly 13-year-old Windows XP operating system in April had boosted corporate demand for PCs, especially in Japan.
"The part I would worry about is: Do PCs get back to declining once XP's benefit is behind you?" said Amit Daryanani, an analyst with RBC Capital Markets. "Is it truly from opportunities they found or is it ahead of an air pocket in demand?"
HP announced the cuts while reporting that net income in the three-month period ending April 30 rose 18 percent to $1.27 billion, or 66 cents per share.
Excluding special items such as restructuring charges, adjusted earnings were 88 cents per share, meeting the expectation of analysts polled by FactSet.
Revenue fell 1 percent to $27.31 billion, below the $27.43 billion analysts expected.
HP's quarterly results were unexpectedly released early, before markets closed. HP's stock dropped 74 cents, or 2.3 percent, to close at $31.78 and fell another 3 cents to $31.75 in after-hours trading.
The company said it expects adjusted earnings of 86 cents to 90 cents per share in the current quarter, with the midpoint a penny below the 89 cents analysts are looking for. HP said full-year adjusted earnings will be between $3.63 and $3.75 per share. The midpoint is two cents below analysts' expectations of $3.71 per share.
Personal computer sales —HP's largest source of revenue— rose 7 percent to $8.2 billion as buoyant sales to businesses offset a slight consumer decline.
Printing revenue fell 4 percent to $5.8 billion. Enterprise group revenue fell 2 percent to $6.7 billion while enterprise services revenue fell 7 percent to $5.7 billion.
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Gauge Of U.S. Economy Rises In April
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The Double C-Hook - 4" Length is a sturdy double-hook attachment to support and suspend medium-weight signage or banners to a ceiling connector.
Hook length is determined on a measurement from inside of hook to inside of hook.
The Model #4004C2 measures 4" in length and is made from 3/32" diameter galvanized steel with a 5/8" diameter hook at either end.
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Within two different screens of a product I'm designing I would like to use an icon for a secondary action. In both screens using an icon with an X in it seems the most logical choice, although the actions caused by clicking the icon changes depending on the screen a user is in. My question is if this can be confusing to user and if it would be better to think of a different icon for one of the two screens.
Specifically, the first screen shows a list of downloads currently in progress. Clicking the X removes one of the downloads from the queue.
The second screen shows a list of installed programs, clicking the X will start the uninstall process.


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Kenya is a widely-known Flash animation, another in the vein of Badger Badger Badger. It is the work of Jonti Picking and friends.
The content, such as it is, is simply a collection of lyrics and accompanying illustrations supposed to have some connection to the African nation of Kenya . . . with a couple of jabs at Norway for no apparent reason. It is probably safe to say that this, like most everything else found on the weebls-stuff website, is strictly intended to make the viewer grin and chuckle.
The particular stylization applied to the dancing lion and tiger was so well received that a number of furry LiveJournal users subsequently had their own characters adapted to that same style for use in custom icons.
There was also a live-action version of Kenya featuring people recreating the original animation script with fursuits and simple props.
Did you know? Kenya isn't actually a natural habitat of the tiger, which comes from Asia (though, according to some sources, more tigers live in North America in captivity than in Asia in the wild).
External links[edit]
- Kenya Flash animation at weebls-stuff
- Kenya live-action movie - mirror


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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has requested more than $2 billion to finance grants to state and local governments for homeland security needs.1 Some of this money is being used by state and local governments to create networks of surveillance cameras to watch over the public in the streets, shopping centers, at airports and more.2 However, studies have found that such surveillance systems have little effect on crime, and that it is more effective to place more officers on the streets and improve lighting in high-crime areas.3 There are significant concerns about citizens privacy rights and misuse or abuse of the system. A professor at the University of Nevada at Reno has alleged that the university used a homeland security camera system to surreptitiously watch him after he filed a complaint alleging that the university abused its research animals.4 Also, British studies have found there is a significant danger of racial discrimination and stereotyping by those monitoring the cameras.5
Chicago has 2,250 cameras in its Homeland Security Grid, which DHS helped finance with a $5.1 million grant, and will be adding cameras in the next two years with funds from another $48 million grant from Homeland Security.7 By 2006, Chicago will have a 900-mile fiber-optic grid.8 The cameras are linked to a $43-million operations center constantly monitored by police officers.9
In New Orleans digital camera images are sent to a main server archive for monitoring, and the Internet-based archive can be accessed from any location, including police vehicles.12 Cameras are currently operating in the city, but New Orleans extensive 1,000-camera surveillance system is expected to be fully deployed by the end of the year.13 Paramus, N.J., is launching a pilot camera surveillance system at shopping malls that will be partially financed by federal grants.14
Though cities are spending millions for these systems, studies have shown that they do not decrease criminal activity. Last year, a Milwaukee study found that law enforcement officials in cities such as Detroit, Mich.; Miami, Fla.; and Oakland, Calif., abandoned the use of these surveillance systems because they had little effect on crime prevention.15
Several American cities looked to Great Britains surveillance system when developing their own. London has 200,000 cameras, and more than 4 million cameras have been deployed throughout the country.16 It is estimated that there is one camera for every 14 people.17 The average Briton is seen by 300 cameras per day, according to estimates.18 However, several studies have shown that these systems have very little effect on crime. In 2002, the British Home Office examined 22 camera surveillance systems in North America and the United Kingdom, and found that such systems had a small effect on crime.19 It is more effective to place more officers on the streets and improve lighting in high-crime areas.20
Studies have also shown that there is a serious risk of race discrimination with the use of camera surveillance networks. Black males are disproportionately scrutinized when such cameras systems are used.21 The National Association for the Criminal Rehabilitation of Offenders found race discrimination in the systems and stated [w]hen certain sections of the community are disproportionately monitored, this not only acts to portray an impression of criminality amongst these groups (certain acts are noticed whilst other groups may be carrying out the same acts unmonitored and unnoticed), it also conveys a message to these individuals that they are not trusted.22
There are also concerns that the homeland security camera systems will be misused or abused. The University of Nevada at Reno installed a network of 80 surveillance cameras throughout campus grounds and in school buildings with a $598,000 grant from Homeland Security in 2003.23 Professor Hussein S. Hussein filed suit after finding that the university used a homeland security hidden camera to watch his lab after Mr. Hussein had previously found a hidden university police camera, installed inside a smoke detector, was being used to monitor his lab.24 The university admitted installing the hidden camera, but claimed it was investigating a potential hate crime.25
The University of Nevada at Reno is just one of many universities that are using camera surveillance systems, including the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Pennsylvania.26 At the University of Northern Iowa, students protested after Cedar Falls, Iowa, installed cameras to monitor crowds gathered for Homecoming.27
The list of places installing camera surveillance systems includes smaller towns. Cicero, Ill., (population: 83,000) plans to install several surveillance cameras, at a cost of $50,000 each, with a grant from Homeland Security.28 A federal grant of $150,000 will help Newport, R.I., (population: 86,000) to pay for the installation of surveillance cameras.29 St. Bernard Parish, La., (population: 66,000) spent $112,000 in federal funds for surveillance cameras.30
EPIC has been following the growth in the use of such camera systems for years. In 2002, EPIC launched the Observing Surveillance project.31 The project includes a map of camera locations in areas of downtown Washington, D.C., which indicates both the locations of surveillance cameras installed by the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department and the projected surveillance radius of those cameras.
1 Department of Homeland Security, Budget-in-Brief Fiscal Year 2006, at 81-82 (Feb. 7, 2005) available at http://www.epic.org/privacy/surveillance/spotlight/0505/dhsb06.pdf.
2 Marc Rotenberg and Cedric Laurant, EPIC and Privacy International, Privacy and Human Rights: An International Survey of Privacy Laws and Developments at 102-103 (EPIC 2004) (hereinafter PHR 2004); available at http://www.privacyinternational.org/phr.
3 See generally PHR 2004 at 95-104; Brandon C. Welsh and David P. Farrington, Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate, Crime prevention effects of closed circuit television: a systematic review, Research Study 252 (Aug. 2002) (hereinafter Home Office Study) available at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/hors252.pdf; National Association for the Criminal Rehabilitation of Offenders, To CCTV or not to CCTV? A review of current research into the effectiveness of CCTV systems in reducing crime (June 28, 2002) (hereinafter NACRO Study) available at http://www.epic.org/privacy/surveillance/spotlight/0505/nacro02.pdf.
4 Frank X. Mullen Jr., UNRs camera network raises fear, Reno Gazette-Journal, Mar. 13, 2005.
5 NACRO Study at 4; Clive Norris and Gary Armstrong, The unforgiving Eye: CCTV surveillance in public space, Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice at Hull University (1997).
6 Greg Barrett, 9/11 brings a windfall for states spending, Baltimore Sun, Mar. 20, 2005.
7 Hal Dardick, City will keep eyes peeled big time, Chicago Tribune, Feb. 11, 2005; Fran Spielman, Feds give city $48 million in anti-terrorism funds, Chicago Sun-Times, Dec. 4, 2004.
8 Hal Dardick, City will keep eyes peeled big time, Chicago Tribune, Feb. 11, 2005.
9 Fran Spielman, Feds give city $48 million in anti-terrorism funds, Chicago Sun-Times, Dec. 4, 2004.
10 Greg Barrett, 9/11 brings a windfall for states spending, Baltimore Sun, Mar. 20, 2005.
11 Doug Donovan, 24-hour camera surveillance in city is part of bigger plan, Baltimore Sun, Jun 10, 2004.
12 Frank Donze, Crime-Time Program, Times-Picayune, Jan. 14, 2005.
13 Id.
14 David Porter, Expanded video surveillance planned for mall, schools, Associated Press, Jan. 13, 2005.
15 Ryan Davis, Surveillance cameras may soon be coming to a street near you, Baltimore Sun, Mar. 16, 2005.
16 Fran Spielman and Frank Main, City plans camera surveillance web, Chicago Sun-Times, Sept. 10, 2004; see generally Privacy International, Overview: CCTV and Beyond available at http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd[347]=x-347-65433.
17 Id.
18 Tara Burghart, Chicago Mayor Unveils Surveillance Plan, Associated Press, Sept. 10, 2004.
19 Home Office Study at 45; PHR 2004 at 95-104.
20 Home Office Study; NACRO Study.
21 NACRO Study at 4; Clive Norris and Gary Armstrong, The unforgiving Eye: CCTV surveillance in public space, Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice at Hull University (1997).
22 NACRO Study at 4.
23 Frank X. Mullen Jr., UNRs camera network raises fear, Reno Gazette-Journal, Mar. 13, 2005.
24 Id.
25 Id.
26 Jeffrey R. Young, Smile! You're on Campus Camera, Chronicle of Higher Education, June 13, 2003.
27 Jon Ericson, Protesters feel cameras invade privacy, WCF Courier, Apr. 8, 2005.
28 Matt Baron, Cameras to keep eye on Cicero, Chicago Tribune, Feb. 10, 2005.
29 Richard Salit, Newport nets aid for bridge cameras, Providence Journal, Jan. 7, 2005.
30 Mark F. Bonner, Parish gets money for street cameras, Times-Picayune, July 24, 2004.
31 EPIC, Observing Surveillance (2002) available at http://www.observingsurveillance.org/.


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I have found that one of the best things I can do for my body each day is to drink a glass of warm lemon water before I do anything else. I even drink it BEFORE I put my beloved coffee to my lips! That should tell you something.
Drinking lemon water has many health benefits, but for me, the most important is how it helps flush out my liver, which is the body's filter. By flushing your liver, it gives it the opportunity to work at an optimal level to remove toxins. Other benefits include proper kidney and digestive tract function.
Just do it, you will thank me later.
How and When to Drink Lemon Water
Each morning, before you put anything else in your mouth drink 4-6 ounces of purified warm water and add either 1-2 drops of lemon essential oil or 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice.
11 Benefits of Drinking Lemon Water First Thing Every Morning
1. Flush the liver. Drinking lemon water creates more enzymes allowing the body to properly cleanse itself flushing out unwanted toxins.
2. Reduces inflammation. It is great for joints and pain, because it helps reduce inflammation in the body. Lemon water helps with respiratory tract infections, inflamed tonsils and sore throat due to the high anti-inflammatory properties of lemon.
3. Hydrates. Water with lemon is full of electrolytes, which provides your body with more calcium, magnesium and potassium.
4. Aids in digestion. Lemon contains citric acid, which helps stimulate the secretion of gastric juices for digestion and aids in natural bowel movement.
5. Weight loss. Lemon aids in boosting the metabolism and contains pectin fiber which helps suppress with food cravings.
6. Alkalizes the body. Lemon creates an alkalizing effect in the body, which helps your body fight diseases. Drinking lemon water before a meal can raise your PH level which supports your body's natural immune response. In addition, studies prove that more alkalized bodies, are able to lose weight faster.
7. Lowers blood pressure. A daily dose of lemon water aids in decreasing high blood pressure by 10%, and helps cleanse the blood, blood vessels and arteries.
8. Better skin. Water hydrates the skin, plumping it up and pushing out wrinkles, but the Vitamin C in lemon cleanses the skin, allowing it to glow the way it was meant to. Drinking 64oz+ of water daily is a sure fire way to take years off your looks.
9. Aids Depression. Lemon water is full of potassium which aids the nervous system, the body needs potassium to send signals to the heart. Anxiety and depression are often caused by low levels of potassium in the blood.
10. Relieves heartburn. Drink a half glass of water with 1 teaspoon of lemon juice (or 2 drops lemon essential oil) to reduce heart burn symptoms quickly.
11. Fights cancer. As we said above, lemon is alkalizing, multiple studies have shown that cancer can not thrive in a high PH (alkalized) environment.
What do you do daily to help keep your body healthy? I would love to hear from you!


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FGS Home | Docs | Support | Bugs | Downloads
The FGS Linux Installer is a self-extracting file that will install MapServer with PHP/MapScript and all of their dependencies on your Linux system. It provides a stand-alone environment with all the required software (incl. Apache and PHP) to run PHP/MapScript webmapping applications. The bundled version of Apache can be configured to run on any port so it will not interfere with previous installations of Apache or other web servers on your system.
This package was initially based on the ideas of the Free Open Source Software (FOSS) GIS Suite (FGS), but has taken a slightly different tangent. We hope to contribute our enhancements back to this project at some point.
FGS has been tested on the following platforms:
The basic FGS package installs a preconfigured Web Server environment that includes the following components:
Download FGS Now! Please see the Docs page for installation notes.
Several other components (including Chameleon and GMap applications) are also available. See the FGS Modules page and select a specific version for available components.
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If you have previously taken a preview look at courses under Early Childhood and Primary Education and you're not satisfied then you are right to have come over here for Courses Related to Early Childhood and Primary Education. Though this post is meant for Nigerian, students from other countries can still find the information they are looking for.
This is a competitive Education course. The admission rate for this course is 100% for those who meet at least the cutoff mark in JAMB and score the minimum required POST UTME.
Here is the list of Courses Related to Early Childhood and Primary Education
- Nursery and Primary Education [[…]]
- Primary Education Studies
- Pre-Primary and Primary Education
- Guidance and Counselling
- Early Childhood Care Education
Just because these courses are all related doesn't mean you are qualified to study all. You can click here to search for each of these related courses subject combinations and requirements. Remember to also consider the career prospective of reach courses list here. [[..]]


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A map of the magnetic field measured at the bottom of Lake Cherbakul. The area shown measures 100 by 60 meters. Red areas might indicate the location of large fragments of the Cherbakul meteorite, which fell in countless pieces across the region on February 15, 2013.
Image 38993 is a 240 by 320 pixel WebP
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Spectra Energy Partners Increases Quarterly Cash Distribution
18th Consecutive Quarterly Cash Distribution Increase
HOUSTON, April 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Spectra Energy Partners, LP (NYSE: SEP) announced that the board of directors of its general partner declared a quarterly cash distribution to unitholders of $0.48 per unit, an increase of one-half cent over the previous level of $0.475 per unit. This is the 18th consecutive quarter that Spectra Energy Partners has increased its quarterly cash distribution. The cash distribution is payable on May 15, 2012, to unitholders of record at the close of business on May 4, 2012. This quarterly cash distribution equates to $1.92 per unit on an annual basis.
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Spectra Energy Partners, LP (NYSE: SEP) is a Houston-based master limited partnership, formed by Spectra Energy Corp (NYSE: SE), that owns interests in natural gas transportation and storage assets in the United States, including more than 3,200 miles of transmission and gathering pipelines and approximately 57 billion cubic feet (Bcf) of natural gas storage. These assets are capable of transporting 3.6 Bcf of natural gas per day from growing supply areas to high-demand markets.
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I was inspired by the following algebraic topology orals question:
"Is $S^1$ the loop space of another space?"
This is easy to see if you recognize that $S^1$ is a $K(\mathbb{Z},1)$, and the loop space of any $K(G,n)$ is a $K(G,n-1)$.
I then also remembered that the loop space functor is a functor from pointed topological spaces and continuous maps to the category of H-spaces and continuous homomorphisms. H-spaces being topological spaces that satisfy the axioms of a group up to homotopy (see Spanier, Chapter 1, Section 5).
I have three questions:
- Is there a useful criterion for when an H-space is actually a topological group?
- Seeing that $S^1$,$S^3$, and $S^7$ are the only spheres that support group structures, it doesn't seem coincidental that $S^1$ is a loop space, because it is in fact an H-space. Since $CP^{\infty}$ is the loop space of $K(Z,3)$ it too is an H-space, but is it known if it is a topological group?
- Even if not, is there a way (other than concatenation of loops) to "see" this structure on $CP^{\infty}$?


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Ken Scott talks Beatles, Floyd and old guitars
Ken Scott talks Beatles, Floyd and old guitars
As an EMI engineer in the 1960s, Ken Scott was responsible for the sonics of some of the most loved guitar recordings in history, not least the Fab Four's White Album.
Here, the legendary record producer looks back at his early career and talks Beatles, Floyd and why old guitars rule...
What was the environment like at EMI Studios at Abbey Road when you started there in 1964?
"It was very staid. There was a serious dress code. You had, basically, four tiers. You had the people that we called the 'brown coats'; they were like studio roadies. They would bring in the drums for the musicians. They would set up seats for orchestras, all of that kind of thing, and they used to wear brown coats, to keep them relatively clean.
"Then you had the amp-room guys: the electronic whizzes. They had to wear a suit and tie. Because they were dealing with lots of dirty cables and damp echo chambers, and all of that kind of thing, they would wear white lab coats to keep their suits clean, which makes absolute sense, in hindsight. I used to think, 'What the hell are they doing?' [laughs]. Then, the engineers had to wear a suit and tie. You weren't allowed to take your jackets off during a session. The button-pushers, the second engineers, didn't have to wear suits, but they had to have nice dress pants, and a shirt and tie. Certainly no jeans or t-shirts back then.
"The way you progressed through your training was that you started off in the tape library, so you could learn how the studio worked, and learn what all the different jobs were within the studio. Then you'd move up to button-pusher. Before you could actually sit behind a board and do anything, you had to learn mastering, cutting. The reason behind that was that it was easier to put stuff onto tape than it was onto the final product, vinyl, because you had to be careful; there couldn't be too much bass, because it would jump. You had to be careful of phase, because it would jump.
"So, although we didn't like having to go through the mastering side before getting to engineer, the reasoning behind it makes so much sense. You knew what you were dealing with when you were doing a mix."
In the early days, were you under pressure from the artists to make records sound as loud and bassy as possible, in order to compete with American releases?
"The interesting thing is it wasn't coming from the artists. It wasn't coming from the producers. It was coming from us. We would listen to American records, and they would appear to be so much louder. One of the engineers there, Peter Bown, spent a couple of weeks at Capital Studios in LA to try to find out what the differences were between America and England.
"He came back, and said, 'It's not the gear; it's the musicians. They've just got a different sound that makes it easier to make it louder'. Those kinds of thing are so weird. It's still the same today: everyone trying to get it that much louder. I think they're doing it incorrectly by brick-walling [extreme compression]. It's ridiculous, because it ruins the overall sound of everything."
Meeting The Beatles
When did you first meet The Beatles?
"The first session I was on as a second engineer, button-pusher, was side two of A Hard Day's Night [1964], the non-movie stuff. Obviously, a landmark session for me. I was petrified, but it seemed to go okay in the end, I guess! I kept working with them in that capacity more than anyone else, from that time on, through Rubber Soul."
How experimental were they during that 1964 session?
"They'd moved on a little from the live thing. They were starting to get accustomed to four-track recording, and being able to double-track vocals easily, and put on a couple of additional things, but they hadn't reached that point where they would tell you what kind of sound they were after.
"It was still left totally up to Norman Smith, who taught them so much. Norman was always trying to push the envelope as much as he could, within the bounds of Abbey Road management, the bounds of technology at that point, and at the point where The Beatles were.
"They hadn't reached that point where one could go nuts with experimenting with things and getting all of these different sounds. Their progression, at that point, was still in the music, as opposed to the sound."
When you started working with them again after Revolver and Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, you must have noticed a big difference...
"Yes, they were into doing four-track to four-tracks, so that they could put things on, and on, and on, until they got it exactly the way they wanted it. Then, on the White Album, they decided they wanted to get back to basics and more rock 'n' roll. Even though some of the songs were very individual, and there would be times when it would just be the person that wrote the song in the studio working on it, so much was a group effort; all of them in the studio, playing at the same time. It was amazing."
How were those raucous guitar sounds on the White Album recorded?
"It was generally pretty standard. It would be a Neumann U67 on a guitar amp, and just 18 inches to two feet away, I guess. More than anything, I think the sounds were got down in the studio, more than from us.
"I have very little memory of Clapton coming in and playing the guitar solo on While My Guitar Gently Weeps. But the one thing I do remember is Eric didn't want it to sound like himself. He wanted it more Beatle-ish. We had to do something that we often did with The Beatles, which was flange the guitar, so it had a more strange sound, a more out-of-tune sound, less like Eric and more like The Beatles, so there were some things that we did in the control room, but a lot of it was just got from downstairs."
Yer Blues
Wasn't Yer Blues recorded in a side room?
"We were doing a vocal on one of George's songs; a track called Not Guilty, that finished up not making it onto the album [it later featured on his eponymous 1979 solo album – Ed]. For whatever reason, he didn't get the feeling out of his vocals that he wanted, on that version.
"We were trying all kinds of different things to help him feel it differently, and he wanted to try doing it in the control room, with the monitors blasting; he was after more of a live effect. "We were trying that, and on a playback John was standing by the side of me.
"I turned to him and joked, 'The way you guys are going, you're going to want to record in there next', and pointed to this really small room. All it used to do was house a four-track machine, and it was next door to number two control room.
"He looked at it, and didn't say anything until the next day, when he said, 'Okay, we're going to record a new number. It's called Yer Blues, and we're going to record it in there', and pointed to that small room.
"We had to pack them all in, and luckily, they didn't swing their guitars around too much; otherwise, someone might have lost their head [laughs]. It was packed so tightly, and everything was live. Even the vocal was live. It was nothing but bleed, and you had to try to blend everything together as best as possible. There wasn't the clarity we were used to. It was a whole different ball game, but I happened to love the sound of it."
When The Beatles described the way they wanted things to sound, were their descriptions rather abstract?
"Yes, sometimes. The one that could put it together the least was John. His descriptions could be the most esoteric. Paul would refer to other records, or say, 'I need it brighter; I need it thinner; I need it fuller', things like that. They all did it in their own fashion."
Pink Floyd, Helter Skelter
What about Helter Skelter? That's still one of the most ferocious guitar sounds ever committed to tape...
"Paul wanted to make the most distorted sound ever, so just everything was cranked. They cranked in the studio, we pulled everything down upstairs, and it just gave you what you hear on Helter Skelter."
You also worked with Pink Floyd in the early part of their career. How did their approach contrast to that of The Beatles?
"The Beatles were all-powerful; they could do whatever they damn-well pleased. Floyd weren't that big when I worked with them. They'd had minimal success with their first two singles, and they were going through this weird period – I'm sure there were many weird periods with Syd Barrett, but the final weird period with Syd, because it was the last single they did with him – Paint Box and Apples And Oranges.
"There was a little tension, but they couldn't spend as much time experimenting as The Beatles. Their experimentation came in later. They slowly built up their following, and became more powerful, which led to The Dark Side Of The Moon, which put them into the same league as The Beatles.
"The Beatles tended to experiment with typical things, like they'd want a piano, but they'd want it to sound totally different. Whereas Floyd, they'd have things that would create weird noises, but they didn't necessarily use straightforward instrumentation so much."
Do you have any advice for recording guitars, based on your experiences?
"Go back to old guitars. I don't like modern guitars, modern pickups. I've been told there are people making pickups that are more like the old ones. I have yet to find them. I tend to find there is a high shrillness to a lot of pickups these days. I would far sooner have an old guitar that has a great sound, but is very buzzy, than a new one that sounds like every other guitar, but without any hum and buzz. We've become too picky.
"Unless it's just the guitar, you don't hear all that noise, because once you get the drum kit in, and the bass in, they are creating the same kind of frequencies as any hum or buzz, so you don't hear it so much, if at all. Don't be picky and ruin a good guitar sound to try to get something clean.
"The other thing is: get it in the studio. Don't fall for the whole thing of, 'Well, we can take this, copy and paste it, and move it over'. People don't seem to use their ears as much as their eyes these days, looking at the computer. We've lost the heart and soul from the music. It has to be perfect. As humans, we're not perfect, and music has to have emotion. Emotion isn't perfect.
"We're reaching a point that we have to make a turnaround, otherwise music is doomed. I think that change will come. I'm a firm believer in talent, but it's pretty bad at the moment. I liken it to before The Beatles.
"There were so many acts signed because of the way they looked, as opposed to the way they sounded. They were manufactured, and so many acts today are manufactured. Then The Beatles came along and changed everything. It's almost like that again. We're waiting for that next Beatles."


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Fishy news, and mushrooms for water quality?
Jan 24, 2014 at 12:08 PM 0 Comments
Here's a quick round-up of some recent Northwest news related to watershed health:
From the Puget Sound: Experiments with coho salmon and stormwater in Washington are showing that filtering stormwater with soils and sands (through rain gardens, green streets and other green infrastructure) does help protect fish: the unfiltered stormwater killed the salmon within 24 hours. The filtered stormwater didn't.
From Portland State University: Hope for urban salmon! A new book by PSU Professor Alan Yeakley and colleagues from Oregon State University looks at the critical role of urbanized areas in salmon recovery, and highlights restoration efforts in Johnson Creek and other Portland watersheds. Staff from Environmental Services, the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, and former Office of Healthy Working Rivers contributed to the book and the reports behind it. Read more about the highlights here, and here, and find the full e-book here.
From Corvallis: Coffee and mushrooms may be a tool for improving water quality in streams.
We'll sign off with this great quote from OSU professor Carl Shreck:
"...Portland is very avant-garde...When it comes to looking for positive ways to improve water conditions, Portland is one of the greenest cities in the world."
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