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After many years of waiting, Google's online storage service will finally be available. It won't be called GDrive, as it will only be an updated version of Google Docs.
"Instead of emailing files to yourself, which is particularly difficult with large files, you can upload to Google Docs any file up to 250 MB. You'll have 1 GB of free storage for files you don't convert into one of the Google Docs formats (i.e. Google documents, spreadsheets, and presentations), and if you need more space, you can buy additional storage for $0.25 per GB per year," mentions Google Docs blog.
The update will be slowly rolled out in the coming days and it's the next step in the evolution of Google's online office suite. When Google added support for PDF files in 2008, it became clear that Google Docs will let you upload any kind of file.
Google says that the service will be able to open many common file formats. "You can search for document files you've uploaded or that have been shared with you just like you do with your Google documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and PDFs. And you'll be able to view many common document file types with the Google Docs viewer."
Google Docs has the potential to become a great service for online storage, but it won't succeed if it only includes 1 GB of free storage. Microsoft's SkyDrive offers 25 GB of free storage, while ADrive offers 50 GB of free storage. Even Gmail has more free storage than Google Docs and its main purpose is not storing files.


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If it's possible, the Middle East became a lot more dangerous Thursday. Benazir Bhutto's assassination has thrown already unstable, nuclear-capable Pakistan into further turmoil, threatening the stability of the region and, potentially, the safety of the entire world.
If it's possible, the Middle East became a lot more dangerous Thursday. Benazir Bhutto's assassination has thrown already unstable, nuclear-capable Pakistan into further turmoil, threatening the stability of the region and, potentially, the safety of the entire world. Bhutto's supporters reacted to their leader's death with understandable anger. They lashed out with violence and blamed President Pervez Musharraf for her death. While the suicide bomber who killed Bhutto and 20 supporters Thursday has been linked to al Qaeda, Bhutto's supporters are right to throw some of the blame at Musharraf. Bhutto, herself, had previously said that her political rival would be at least partly to blame should she be murdered. "I would hold Musharraf responsible," Bhutto wrote in a letter to U.S. spokesman and friend Mark Siegel two months ago. "I have been made to feel insecure by his minions and there is no way what is happening ... could happen without him." Bhutto was referring to Musharraf's refusal to provide better security for the former prime minister and presidential candidate, despite clear threats to her life. He even tried to prevent her from protecting herself, "stopping me from taking private cars or using tinted windows or giving jammers or four police mobiles to cover all sides." It's not like this was a great surprise. Bhutto wrote the letter eight days after the last assassination attempt, a suicide bombing that killed nearly 140 of her supporters after her return from exile in October. Whoever is ultimately responsible for her death, Musharraf is the most direct beneficiary. Likely to have lost the presidency to Bhutto in the Jan. 8 election, Musharraf will now retain power, which has seemed to be his goal all along. It was only a few weeks ago that — under intense U.S. and international pressure — he finally removed his military uniform and released the country from police rule, agreeing to face off with Bhutto in a civil election. What's to stop him now from donning the fatigues and continuing his march toward dictatorship? If anything, he's been given an excuse to do just that in the name of safety and stability. He has already announced he is debating whether to postpone the election. Unfortunately, the other winners here are the Islamic terrorists, who revel in death and chaos. Pakistan is a hotbed of extremism, the known home of al Quaeda and Taliban-related groups. Osama bin Laden himself has long been rumored to be hiding in Pakistan's remote regions. The chaos and instability likely to follow Bhutto's death can only aid these murderous groups that seem hell-bent on destroying the world. Global security is potentially at risk. Bhutto represented hope that a strong, Democratic government could put an end to the instability and lead Pakistan into a safe, prosperous, peaceful era. Bhutto is now gone, but hope does not have to be lost with her. Fair and free elections should continue as scheduled, allowing Pakistanis to fulfill Bhutto's dream of a safe, peaceful Pakistan. Anything less allows the terrorists to keep winning. The Herald News

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Théâtre "Sankara - The rise and fall of an African hero"
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"Homeland or death we will win!"
Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" inspires the unforgettable epic story of African hero Thomas Sankara, President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987.
Sankara brought an unprecedented change in the mentality of his country, refused foreign aid (under the slogan "he who feeds you, controls you"), nationalised all land and mineral wealth, promoted work for everyone to reach food self-sufficiency and build the first railway.
He was also the first African leader to favour women's rights and to appoint them as key Ministers.
He started an ambitious plan to fight desertification by planting thousands of trees, promoted mass vaccination, and overtly denounced the dark mechanisms behind Africa's odious debt (namely World Bank and IMF) which are the cause of today's World crisis, despite the silence of mainstream media about it.
Fully aware of his tragic destiny, and just days before his assassination, Thomas Sankara pronounced the famous words "while revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you can't kill ideas".
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Ike Chuks – Thomas Sankara
Chris Machari – Blaise Compaore
Shereener Browne – Mariam Sankara / Felix Boigny
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Clovis Kasanda – Jean Lingani / Charles Taylor
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Choreographer – Coco Regina
Music composer – Levi Roots
Sound editor – Ricky Dujany
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Bowing to international pressure, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9 aircraft in the U.S. were being grounded following the Ethiopian Airlines disaster.
R. Kelly's publicist says the R&B singer wants his child support payments lowered, but it doesn't appear that they were reduced during the most recent hearing in the case.
The "Empire" actor entered the plea after his case was assigned to a new judge. He faces more than a dozen charges stemming from a staged attack he allegedly planned against himself.
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A year after lawmakers approved an identical bill that was vetoed by then-Gov. Bruce Rauner, senators vote 39 to 16 to raise the age from 18 to 21 for the legal purchase and use of tobacco products and e-cigarettes.
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NEW YORK (AP) Chris Gaston scored 18 points with 10 rebounds, and Branden Frazier added 16 points and a career-high 13 assists as Fordham defeated Duquesne 82-75 Wednesday night in the teams' Atlantic 10 Conference opener.
The Rams (5-11, 1-0) never trailed in the second half after taking a 47-41 halftime lead.
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The Crazy, Stupid Love. co-directors talk about working with Steve Carell and keeping a story emotional.
In the engaging rom-com Crazy, Stupid, Love. Steve Carell plays a cuckolded man who stages marital protest by throwing himself from a moving car driven by his wife. "The writer [Dan Fogelman] had a friend who jumped out of a car," co-director Glenn Ficarra reveals. "In the movie Steve was relatively unhurt, but that was the genesis for Steve's character."
Ficarra and his filmmaking pal of a quarter-century John Requa previously directed the Sundance 2009 entry I Love You Phillip Morris and had been looking for a follow-up. Warner Bros sent them the script after Carell recommended the duo. Ficarra remembers being impressed by what he read. "It was an excellent script. I rarely read a script in one sitting."
There's no shortage of mutual appreciation between the filmmakers and their lead man. "[Carell] is a comedic straight man," Ficarra says, "who plays it very close to the vest and is almost always the funniest person in the scene." The top-notch cast includes in-demand Ryan Gosling as the silky-smooth bachelor who coaches Carell in the ways of women in the ensuing separation from his wife, played by Julianne Moore. There's also great work from Emma Stone and an uproarious turn by Marisa Tomei.
Crazy, Stupid, Love. isn't just a hit - it grossed close to $150m worldwide - it is a clever, nuanced story that does a fine job of balancing laughter with tears. "Finding that line and doing that tightrope walk is what excites us and brought us to the project," Requa says. "A lot of other directors might have lowered the bandwidth and made it less emotional."
Speaking of directors [plural], how do Ficarra and Requa work together? "The real question," Requa says with a sigh, "is how does one person direct a movie? Its such a big job, I don't know how they do it."
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What you are describing, Mike, sounds like a reasonable explanation for why people have such a hard time being told they are wrong, even when presented with facts. Maybe to an extent, you are correct that it takes lots of back and forth discussion and a certain understanding that changes your mind within yourself.
Unfortunately, there is a much simpler explanation. Vast amounts of people are utterly stupid. No amount of proven facts will change the mind of many people because they cling to their views with rabid fervor. And the more politically hardline that someone is to one extreme or the other, the higher likelihood of cognitive dissonance. Facts don't matter, because their party is right, no matter what. And when they aren't, they throw blame and bias accusations and hope they will stick to something to take the attention off of their utter idiocy.
It's very likely that in any of those situations, the scale would be stored in your house, shop or wherever, but not carried around with you. It is enough to be suspicious. No, it's not clear cut evidence, but it is enough reason for a search.
I'm all for flexing your rights. But the scale being visible was enough to be extremely suspicious along with all the other red flags. Save it for when the police actually do something wrong.
The fact is, although the law is trying to follow the Constitution in disallowing discrimination, it also forces speech, and that part is unconstitutional. The law should be struck down, and the ACLU has no business trying to force compliance with an law with an unconstitutional part of it. If the "tell their story" part was removed, the law would be just fine, but not the way it stands.
Not to mention, I'd be good for letting people know, who are usually clueless about this sort of thing just how far there government is crossing the line and maybe enough public recognition will allow the people to do something about it, instead of being complacent.
Honestly, for games based on realistic warfare, I think some game companies should step up and make it happen. Not for censoring or restricting free speech, but for that next level of realism and immersion. But it should be up to each individual game company, and not the government.
I think it would be fun having a war game where you have to consider your actions carefully and be careful how close you get to crossing the line.
"What if the NSA (or CIA or FBI) manage to uncover a terrorist plot via methods it considers too valuable to expose? Does it allow the attack to proceed rather than jeopardize a useful surveillance program?"
The real question is, how many times has this ALREADY happened?
Two of my reps voted yes, so that's good.
The rest should be publicly hung for treason.
Good job poking the Putin with a stick. It's not like we were in a long, dangerously frightening cold war with Russia or anything.
Human rights activists are allowed in just about every situation there is, and it's usually the US pushing for it to happen. But now the NSA is butthurt because Snowden let their dirty laundry air, and thinks those same things don't apply.
Star Traders is one of the best games on the Play Store period, and Cory Trese is a genius. He's one of the few app developers on there that listen carefully to his customers and his patches frequently add new features and tweaks to make the game better than ever.
Google better fix this screw up or there's going to hordes of very pissed off paying customers at their throats, and I will be right there near the front of the line. I bought the game, and I'll be damned if Google is taking it down.
Of course the White House will decline. Because implicating Chris Dodd and the MPAA also implicates Congressmen, since they are the ones being bribed. The White House won't go after their own.
This is really only a problem for people that can't let go of DVDs. I don't even hardly watch DVD's at all anymore. When you are like me, and cut off $80 worth of cable, when I hardly watch it, and can watch Netflix on a relatively cheap wi-fi Blu-Ray player hooked up to a 1080p 42" HDTV, then paying 8-9 dollars a month for a huge selection is friggin awesome. I fail to see the point of the DVD part of Netflix that everyone is bitching about. Scratched up DVD's that can easily get lost in the mail, that may or may not play on your player due to arcane DRM, DO NOT impress me.
I know that I can't get everything Netflix has to offer with only streaming, but there's still a huge amount of content, and new things showing up all the time. Fuck Starz. I wasn't that impressed with their feeble selection anyways. There's a massive load of streaming anime on Netflix now, and I'm happy as hell about it.
I can definitely tell the difference between any mp3 and flac. FLAC is totally lossless and impossible to tell the difference from whatever the source is. As for creating a perfect FLAC from the source, you have to take all settings into account, including 16 or 24 bit (or higher), sampling rate, etc. Just using a higher level for one setting is not enough, it has to match the source, or you are getting loss.
I don't have the sound system to need higher than 44Khz-48Khz and there isn't a massive difference between 16 and 24 bit. If I got rich and had the cash to buy a sound system worth several thousand dollars, sure I'd rebuy. But that's more than likely not going to happen, so if not, I'll keep the 16 bit 48Khz FLAC cd rips.
I learned to use computers and write batch files in msdos when I was around 4-5 years old. In a few years I was programming and was a world ahead of even my grandfather who taught me how to use it. There wasn't much of anything but AOL and Compuserve at the time, but if there would have been some app spying on me at the time, I would have found it. Unless the parent is very tech savvy, this isn't going to work. Most kids today know far more about computers than their parents, and only the newer parents that are more knowledgeable about technology are going to have a leg up.
In any case, trust is important and you can't build trust by spying on your kids completely unwarranted. Then again, you can't be naive either and expect that your "little angel" would never do anything wrong. There's a happy medium without becoming as bad as big brother. Good parenting helps too!
Honestly, anywhere that has a distribution facility in that state, you generally end up paying taxes in that state. It works that way for many other companies, such as Newegg. Every state that they have distribution centers in pay taxes, and in those states it is passed on to the customers. This doesn't fit the governor's interpretation of the law that they need to have a storefront.
If other companies that have distribution centers have to pay taxes, so does Amazon.
You are correct on one point. Mentally ill people do tend to look to drugs to self medicate, mostly because the majority of Big Pharma drugs do little more than placebo. This may very well be the reason that there are some people that smoke pot and it can cause psychosis, because they were already predisposed to it. There's virtually no evidence to show that it can do the same to a mentally healthy person.
I'm not trying to prove what I'm saying as fact, I'm just saying if you try to match the studies correlating pot and psychosis with the sociological data comparing pot users to schizophrenia rates, there seems to be no real link between the two. Take it as you will.
Correlation is not causation. Just checking on the numbers of people that have schizophrenia (or other forms of psychosis) that has not significantly changed in the population compared to the people that use marijuana, which has increased exponentially, it's obvious that your argument is a fallacy. One study with skewed results, funded by anti-drug lobbyists does not make fact.
Nobody likes the tobacco industry. This still doesn't change the fact that Australia has no right to have part of their logo blocked out by the big honking warnings all over them and it is changing the way the logo looks. Therefore, you could consider it real trademark infringement.
I agree with you for the most part, Montezuma, but comparing marijuana to refined drugs is silly. Comparing it to raw coca leaves would be much closer. Coca leaves are pretty much safe, as long as you don't break down the components of them and refine it. And even that's silly, because straight up THC doesn't do any more harm than smoking weed (probably less since it doesn't have the carcinogens that you get from burning a plant.
This is interesting, mostly because I haven't thought of it before. But I really see no real problem with it. It takes an exact match to be usable in court, therefore consent has to be given by any family members tested, or warrants have to be issued if they refuse. So in truth, their privacy is still protected.
Not as if we have any real expectation of privacy, anyway.


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On Monday, UNFCCC COP17 gets underway in Durban, South Africa. Geoengineering will not be a focus of the proceedings, yet several agenda items will have a direct bearing on the future of SRM and CDR strategies. Here are four areas to watch, all of which impact geoengineering research and policy:
1. The future of Kyoto - The first legally-binding "commitment period" under the Kyoto Protocol will expire at the end of next year, and no successor agreement is currently in place. Parties have struggled in vain since Copenhagen to reach consensus on a second commitment period to take effect after 2012, thereby avoiding a gap in the schedule of international mandatory emissions reductions. Unfortunately, leading states are highly unlikely to strike such a deal in Durban. Failure to negotiate a new scheme will reinforce the belief that a robust global mitigation regime is not possible under present circumstances, and even more attention will shift to geoengineering as a result. Ironically, rather than creating a moral hazard that weakens efforts to reduce emissions, geoengineering is likely to gain in prominence due to the moral failure to mitigate climate change.
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4. REDD+ - Most observers regard REDD+ as one of the few potential bright spots on the Durban agenda. Delegates will continue to work on establishing the institutional architecture of the REDD+ forest credit system, most importantly the financial arrangements that will anchor the emerging framework. Afforestation and reforestation (A/R) activities currently make up a small fraction of CDM projects, but this could change depending on the outcome of REDD+ discussions, particularly those relating to carbon stock enhancements. As usual, NGOs will be out in force to oppose plantation forestry.
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By Dr. John Waldman and Dr. Merry Camhi
With the exception of sushi aficionados devouring unagi in rolls of avocado, rice, and a dab of wasabi, American eels do not get a lot of love today. Once a dietary mainstay of native peoples and early colonists, these nutritious animals have been devastated over the centuries by growing fishing pressure and the construction of dams along rivers where they once swam in abundance.
Although a petition to add the American eel to the U.S. endangered species list was denied in 2007, a second petition will be considered in 2015. In the meantime, fishery managers can take critical steps to secure a better future for what many consider the most mysterious fish in the sea.
American eels lead a singular existence of sweeping geographies. Spawned deep in the Sargasso Sea—a two million-square mile becalmed region of the Atlantic between the Azores and West Indies—their larvae hitch a hemispheric ride for half a year on the Gulf Stream as they transform into 'glass eels.'
Each spring, millions of these transparent, four-inch-long baby eels exit the Atlantic to enter estuaries and rivers from Greenland to northern South America. Once in fresh water they darken, drive upstream, and spend the next decade or two maturing, until the spawning imperative stirs them to migrate thousands of miles back to the Sargasso, where they reproduce just once and die.
For millions of years this unique life cycle was wildly successful. In the 1800's, eels that had migrated up the St. Lawrence River and into Lake Ontario aggregated at the foot of Niagara Falls. Nineteenth-century naturalists commented that "hundreds of wagonloads . . . would hardly be considered excessive by those who have visited the spot."
Only a few decades ago Lake Ontario held five to ten million eels. Today some 84 percent of their historic habitat in East Coast watersheds and the Lake Ontario Basin is no longer accessible due to dam construction. Before the Conowingo Dam blocked almost the entire Susquehanna River, nearly 1 million pounds of eels were caught annually. By 2000, they fell to zero.
In recent years, glass eels have been undertaking a migration of another kind: Caught in nets as they enter East Coast tributaries, live eels are sold and shipped half way around the world to aquaculture pens in China, where they are fattened up for the Japanese sushi markets.
With relentless fishing, dams, habitat loss, and pollution American eels now find themselves "at or near historically low levels" according to a 2012 scientific assessment.
It's as bad in Europe. By the end of the twentieth century, the number of glass eels entering rivers there declined to 1 percent of historical numbers. To fuel their recovery, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) banned the export of all European eels – hence the Chinese imports of American glass eels for their aquaculture pens.
The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, charged with managing shared fishery resources in U.S. waters, will soon decide on new regulations for the American eel, including closure of all glass eel fisheries along the East Coast. They are currently legal only in South Carolina and Maine (other states closed their fisheries to spur recovery).
In the wake of European and Canadian glass eel fishery closures, the price per pound for American eels jumped ten-fold in the past decade, reaching as high as $2500 per pound. This has led to a veritable gold rush in Maine, with fistfights, thefts of catches, and considerable poaching in other states.
American eels need relief, not intense fishing of young eels that are the future of the species. In 2007, Ontario put the American eel on its Endangered Species List, and Canada declared it Threatened in 2012. The European eel is now Critically Endangered. Just this February, Japan listed its own Japanese eel as Endangered. Eels worldwide need more friends.
It's time for the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission to step up to protect the American eel here in our own waters. At their August 7 meeting, rather than bow to pressure to open fisheries in other states, the Commission should vote to close all glass eel fisheries to give this once bountiful and still mysterious species relief before it's too late.
Dr. John Waldman is Professor of Biology at Queens College and the author, most recently, of Running Silver: Restoring Atlantic Rivers and Their Great Fish Migrations. Dr. Merry Camhi directs the New York Seascape Program at the Wildlife Conservation Society's New York Aquarium.


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On the second anniversary of his inauguration – and days before his State of the Union address next Tuesday – President Obama is on the rebound with the American public.
A slew of major polls now show Mr. Obama with more public approval than disapproval of his job performance, many of them putting him over the 50 percent mark. A survey of the latest polls by RealClearPolitics shows Obama averaging 50 percent approval versus 45 percent disapproval. The last time the positive outweighed the negative was in July. The last time that gap was at least 5 percentage points was a year ago.
Pollsters attribute Obama's rebound to his response to the Tucson shootings, some positive economic trends, and the burst of bipartisanship in last month's lame-duck session of Congress. But, they warn, this surge could be fleeting, as unemployment remains stubbornly high and the feeling of national unity post-Tucson fades.
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"It's a remarkable turnaround for a president so recently hammered in the 2010 midterm elections," write Gary Langer and Julie Phelan in an analysis for ABC News. "Yet the public's mood remains glum, with attendant, continuing hazards for the president and Congress alike."
In the ABC News/Washington Post poll, released Jan. 18, Obama came in with a 54 percent job approval, and 43 percent disapproval. An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Thursday showed Obama at 53 percent approval, up 8 percentage points from last month. Disapproval was 41 percent, down from 48 percent in December.
The NBC/WSJ poll also showed Obama gaining ground among independents, from 35 percent approval to 46 percent. This is a critical group of voters whom the Democrats lost in November and Obama needs to hold onto if he is to win reelection in 2012.
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When asked to label Obama politically, 40 percent of all those surveyed chose "moderate," compared with 45 percent "liberal" and 11 percent "conservative." The number for moderate is the highest the NBC/WSJ poll has ever found for Obama, including before his inauguration.
The poll also contained warning signs for the Republican Party, which took control of the House just two weeks ago. Only 25 percent of respondents said the Republicans in Congress "will mostly bring the right kind of change to the country," compared with 42 percent who said that about the Democrats in January 2007 and 37 percent who said that about the Republicans in January 1995.
"I think this has been a pretty short Republican honeymoon," said Bill McInturff, the Republican co-pollster on the survey, to NBC News.
Another new poll out Thursday shows Americans relatively more optimistic than pessimistic, when asked how they think Obama will do over the next two years compared with the last two years.
Overall, 50 percent of Americans surveyed said they thought Obama would do "about the same," according to the Gallup/USA Today poll. But 39 percent said he would do better, compared with 10 percent who said worse, a net positive of 29 percentage points. Even Republicans scored the president in net positive territory, with 23 percent saying they thought he'd do better and 16 percent saying he'd do worse. Fifty-nine percent of Republicans thought Obama would do about the same.
More conservative policies sought
The poll also found that 50 percent of Americans think that Obama should pursue policies that are more conservative in the next two years, versus 17 percent who said more liberal and 30 percent who said "about the same."
On the economy, 43 percent of Americans said they thought the economy would improve over the next two years. But, a Gallup analysis says, the president's ability to directly affect the economy is somewhat limited, whereas he can have more impact on how the public views his ideology.
"The new poll suggests that [Obama] would fare best on that score by adopting more conservative policies, rather than adopting more liberal ones or even standing still," writes Gallup analyst Lydia Saad. "With Republicans wielding more power on Capitol Hill, that could also help Obama satisfy Americans' desire that Republican and Democratic leaders focus on finding common ground."
Indeed, in his State of the Union speech, Obama is expected to focus in part on the nation's high debt and deficits – a big issue in particular for Republicans. The question is how far he will go in adopting their approach of spending cuts over tax increases, and how his liberal base will respond.
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The federal complaint filed against Columbia last week is the latest in a series of sexual assault-related complaints against universities across the country.
Last Thursday, 23 Barnard and Columbia students filed a complaint against the University, alleging violations of the Clery Act, Title II, and Title IX.
"This complaint makes it part of a wave of complaints that are being filed on the administrative level with the department of education," said Christina Brandt-Young, a senior staff attorney for Legal Momentum, a defense and education fund that focuses on women's issues. "No one knows for sure how many have been filed related to college campuses and sexual assault because the Department of Education doesn't like to publicize when complaints are under investigation."
The complaint filed against Columbia is unusual, both because of its scale—23 students filed as a group—and because it included a Title II complaint.
"Having the Title II claim in there is unusual, and it's also quite sophisticated really for a couple of reasons," Brandt-Young said. "One of which is that sexual harassment and sexual assault frequently lead to what we would call ... emotional instability that can rise to the level of a disability protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act."
Brandt-Young also said that the large number of complainants points to a systemic issue with Columbia's policy.
"It's not the biggest complaint we've ever seen," she said, citing the University of California, Berkeley's case from February 2014 when 31 women filed two federal Title IX complaints.
Businessweek, in an article published earlier this month, estimated that at least 13 Clery Act complaints were filed against universities in the past year.
Though the number of cases is difficult to pin down precisely, there has been a steady increase in the number of public Title IX complaints against colleges and universities in the past few years. In 2011, sixteen students filed a complaint against Yale. In 2013, students filed complaints against Dartmouth, Occidental College, Vanderbilt College, the University of Chicago, the University of North Carolina, and the University of Colorado-Boulder. Then, at the end of March of this year, two students filed a complaint against Harvard.
Filing the complaint with the DOE is the first step in determining if a university's policies are federally non-compliant.
When a complaint is filed, the Office for Civil Rights,, a subset of the DOE, determines whether the complaint outlines a violation in one of the laws the OCR oversees, and whether it has sufficient detail regarding those violations.
If the complaint is associated to a discrimination on the basis of race, sex, or disability, the OCR begins its investigation of the university to determine whether a violation occurred.
Olivia Ortiz, a junior at the University of Chicago, filed a Title IX complaint in April 2013 for violations because the university recommended an informal mediation session between her and the student she accused of rape.
Ortiz said that the administration was being dismissive of her case, treating her as an "hysterical woman coming with these allegations of rape." So Ortiz spoke to the University of Chicago's paper, The Chicago Maroon, before going to a pro-bono lawyer from the Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation for advice.
"Before I went to my lawyer's office, I didn't know, I knew something was wrong, but I didn't know specifically that my Title IX rights were violated, and had no idea what Title IX really meant before going to the office—let alone that I had these rights protected by the government especially in a sexual assault case," she told Spectator on Monday.
Ortiz filed a complaint in April 2013, and it wasn't until June that the OCR opened an investigation based on her complaints.
Ortiz's complaint is still being investigated, but the University of Chicago announced on Feb. 6 that it will be examining its practices regarding sexual misconduct, harassment, and discrimination, and that larger policy changes will be announced in the summer.
While it will likely be a while before the DOE announces how it will proceed with the complaint filed by 23 Columbia and Barnard students, investigations at other schools are moving along. On Monday, the DOE announced it had officially launched a probe into the complaint at Harvard. The DOE also found that Tufts was in violation of Title IX from a 2010 case that involved a student's complaint about how the university handled her alleged sexual assault case.
Tufts' administration, which denies violating Title IX, may lose its federal funding if it doesn't sign an agreement with the OCR.
And today, President Barack Obama, CC '83, is expected to release guidelines that colleges should follow to aggressively combat sexual assaults on college campuses, including a recommended anonymous survey of sexual assault to be conducted every three years.
"Schools can't respond to assaults and wait for them to happen," Brandt-Young said. "They're also supposed to improve the campus climate around sexual harassment and provide a safe environment for students free of sexual harassment, sexual violence, that's what Title IX is all about."
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Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated President Barack Obama's graduation year. Spectator regrets the error.


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Which Dual Action Polisher to Buy
Hi Mike,
I wanted to get your opinion on which dual action polisher to buy. I don't detail professionally. However, I do own a 33 foot boat that I detail annually and I enjoy keeping it looking its best. I currently have a Makita 9227c, but no DA polisher.
My typical annual routine is a two step process. First step is with the Makita 9227c and a one step compound/polish to remove any light oxidation and bring back the shine. The second step is to apply a coat of Marine 31 Gel Coat Carnauba Wax + Sealant by hand.
This process works well, but the rotary machine is probably more than I really need for annual cleanup and it also leaves behind holograms in the gel coat that can be seen at some angles. I'd like to switch to a DA polisher.
I did buy your detailing book and I know you speak highly of the Flex XC3401. However, I've also been looking at the long stoke DA polishers like the Griot's Boss G15 and G21 and the Rupe's LHR 15ES and 21ES. Then again, maybe these machines are overkill for the limited use they will be seeing and just a basic Porter Cable 7424xp would do the job fine. I don't mind spending the extra money for the higher end polisher if it will give me better results and make the job easier. I just want to buy the right tool for the job.
I look forward to hearing your opinion.
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Re: Which Dual Action Polisher to Buy
Hi Rick,
Sorry for the late reply, I left for Oregon on December 2nd for a vacation and did not return to work until today, (as I type this it' 8:20am December 12).
Hang tight and I'll answer your question.
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Re: Which Dual Action Polisher to Buy
Great question. I'm glad you asked it because my guess is there are a lot of guys just like you, that is they own a boat and a rotary buffer but not a dual action polisher. They want to purchase a dual action polisher but they're not sure which polisher to go with?
While budget is a factor, anyone that owns a boat also has worked hard enough in their life to know the value of doing a job right the first time and in this context doing the job right the first time means doing their research and then making the right purchase the first time.
My recommendations are go with either the FLEX 3401 or the Griot's 6" DA Random Orbital Polisher.
I'll explain why below in detail in two separate posts to make reading my reasoning easier to read.
First - Thank you for your trust in me and purchasing my boat detailing how-to book. Without a doubt, out of the 5 how-to books I've written the boat detailing book was the most difficult because I cover the most topics and the most tools in-depth. I even cover how to do major oxidation removal using a 4-step process by hand and I think it's the first time in my life I've ever seen the hand compound, polishing and waxing process explained in detail.
So thank you for your purchase and I hope you enjoy the book.
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Re: Which Dual Action Polisher to Buy
Sorry for the delay again.... so buys playing catch-up after being off for one week.
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Re: Which Dual Action Polisher to Buy
Flex 3401
In the newspaper world, the most important part of the newspaper is the top half of the front page. That's where the breaking news headline goes because that's what most people will see. Newspaper publishers reserve this space for the MOST important information they want to share. The term used is
Above the fold
Same goes for any pictures on a book cover.
Thus, I tried to convey a message without words by showing the FLEX 3401 being used on the cover of my first boat detailing book. This was very much on purpose.
Generally speaking - boats are BIG. Sure some people own small boats but even a small boat has a LOT of surface are to be addressed.
The way I sign my FLEX how-to book is like this,
The FLEX 3401 is a BEAST!
Master the Beast!
Mike Phillips
I started signing my FLEX book like this the day it was published and since then the FLEX company has now adopted this name for the tool. That is the FLEX 3401 is now known as
The Beast
And the reason why is because it truly is a beast. The reason why is because it's the ONLY gear driven orbital polisher on the market and because it's gear driven the pad will NOT stop rotating or oscillating no matter the shape of the shape, size or curve of the panel.
All the other free spinning orbital polishers cannot make this claim. In fact with ALL the free spinning tools you must spend your time focusing on how you hold the tool and the relationship between the face of the pad and the angle of contact between the surface being compounded or polished instead of simply running the buffer.
In fact I have a quote to about this matter, it goes like this,
With a FLEX 3401 you can power through any detail job
What that means is due to the gear driven nature of the Beast you can buff as fast as humanly possible getting the job done as fast as possible while still maintaining professional quality results.
Any orbital polisher will work and get the job done on flat surfaces and of course the sides of a boat hull are large flat or slightly curved surfaces. But when you get to the top cap where you have a lot of shapes and curves and components protruding out of the hull the FLEX 3401 excels.
In my book I strongly recommend the FLEX 3401 to ANYONE that does' production work because with the FLEX 3401 you slap a wool cutting pad like you see me using on the cover of my how-to book and then with a one-step cleaner/wax you can power through a boat detailing project with ONE STEP.
That's the idea, that's the goal of doing production detailing.
When the spinning wool pad accidentally hits a steel cleat or any other component on a boat hull you'll see a little tuft of wool go flying and NO BIG DEAL you keep on powering through the detail job.
With a foam pad, the foam will rip. Ouch. Been there, done that.
A wool pad on a FLEX 3401 is the fastest way to buff out a boat and maintain pro grade results. This is also true for the fastest way to restore a neglected boat as long as it's not to far gone.
Of course, anyone that owns and has read my book knows I explain all of this in the book.
So for doing production work or for maintain a boat already in good to great condition you cannot beat the power and speed of the FLEX 3401.
As a complement to a rotary buffer
I love rotary buffers. I'm the only guy I know that actually has his original rotary buffer. The buffer I started out with when I started detailing cars. It's in my office in my antique wax display case.
So I love the rotary buffer and I fed myself with my personal rotary buffer for years. It no longer works as the gears wore out.
That said, the rotary buffer when used with cutting pads and compounds leaves holograms behind. I explain the problem with this in my article here,
Holograms in gel-coat boats by Mike Phillips
The above article by the way is the ONLY article like it in the boat detailing industry stating the problem and the solution.
Anyway, just like in the car detailing world, while it can be appropriate to start with a rotary buffer it's safer to finish out with an orbital, any orbital. The reason why is in most cases, using a quality orbital polisher with a quality pad and a quality product, the orbital action of an orbital polisher will remove the holograms left by the rotary buffer resulting in a more perfectly flat, high gloss surface.
Out of all the tools in our industry the rotary buffer takes the most muscle, throughout the human body to control and work over a surface. This means it is the tool that will tire you out the fastest.
I would say the FLEX 3401 is next in line as far as fatiguing muscle and that's due to the gear driven power of the tool. Just want to be honest and forthright with anyone reading this into the future.
For the hobbyist, the FLEX is the fastest way to buff out a boat in categories #1 and #2 as shared in my how-to book.
In the first paragraph of the chapter on how to restore boats in category #3 I state the rotary buffer is the best and fastest way to remove oxidation but boats in category #3 can be restored using the FLEX 3401 and other frees spinning orbital polishers but the trade-off will always be speed or time needed.
So for you Rick, if your boat is in category #1 or #2 and you already own a rotary buffer than you can get a way with either the FLEX 3401 or the Griot's 6" DA.
If you want speed then go with the FLEX 3401.
If time is not a factor and you want a tool that is easier on you physically, then go with the Griot's 6" DA polisher.
For severe oxidation cut first with the rotary and finish out with either type of dual action polisher.
For boats in new or like new condition, or with light oxidation skip the rotary and go right to either orbital.
Hope that helps....
If you have more questions about either tool please ask.
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The people in charge of managing firefighting for big wildfires in Colorados forests often declare them contained and controlled, but then add that they will be burning until the snow falls. Typically, that happens in mid-autumn. While some spots may smolder well into winter, the conventional wisdom, based on years of experience, is that those fires are not going to grow.
This weekend the first weekend in December, which is not officially winter, but which is almost always characterized by winter weather a wildfire near Rocky Mountain National Park, burning for nearly two months, made a major run and more than doubled in size to 3,500 acres. Although the wind was howling, it carried no snow to dampen the fire.
Elsewhere in Colorado, Salvation Army bell ringers, who typically bundle up in layers for their charitable stint, were comfortable in hoodies, and at least one, on a sunny corner, wore shorts and flip-flops.
Coloradans expect some unseasonably warm days between Thanksgiving and Christmas, but they do not expect daytime highs in the 50s for weeks on end. When they look at the La Platas, they expect to see the snowline descending almost daily, not fluctuating up and down. When they check the weather forecast, they expect to see some major winter storms predicted as California rainstorms become Rocky Mountain blizzards, not partly cloudy with 15 percent chance of snow flurries. When they head for the slopes, they expect enough snow for a fast ride; they dont want to scan the slopes ahead for bare patches.
Most years, those are reasonable expectations, but not this year. Last years winter was slow to start and quick to end.
Almost all the terrain west of the Mississippi, with the exception of the Pacific Northwest, is abnormally dry, with most of that map labeled severe drought, extreme drought or exceptional drought. Western Colorado ranges from severe to extreme. Reservoirs are low. The ground is parched. And so far, runoff predictions are not optimistic.
Weather fluctuates, of course. The West has always alternated dry spells with wet spells (which, generally, are actually only less dry than the long-term average), and warm winters with harsh ones. Dec. 4 is early; a lot of snow could fall between now and late spring. Still, the same group of people most likely to call climate change a myth are the ones who insist that when they were children, winters were colder and snowier than those in recent years.
It is past time to consider the question, What if this is a glimpse of the future? What if this is the direction in which we are moving? What will we do for water?
Whether climate change has a human component which is nearly beyond debate and even whether the current drought is a part of it, adaptation is still essential. Do not expect the interior West to get the attention, or the funding, commensurate with a flooded New York City coastline. New York is not going to send water to Kansas in exchange for wheat and corn. FEMA is not going to bring it in plastic bottles. California is not going to decide it needs less.
What runs down from the high peaks is all the water there is to be had, and it is past time to realize that is not always going to be enough.


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Watch the June 18, 2019 full episode of "Chicago Tonight."
How addressing homelessness, access to food and other social needs improves a patient's overall health – and reduces costs. A 2017 study found treating patients with just one risk factor was $65 more per month than those with none.
Federal prosecutors and Brendt Christensen's defense team are each expected to call their final witnesses before Friday. Among those slated to testify: Christensen's former girlfriend, who wore a wire for the FBI, and his ex-wife.
The decennial redrawing of Chicago's 50 ward boundaries is messy and anything but transparent. Mayor Lori Lightfoot calls the current map an obvious case of gerrymandering, and says it's bad for Chicago residents.
The murder of Laquan McDonald and ensuing public outrage in Chicago are the focus of a new documentary on Showtime. We speak with "16 Shots" writer and director Rick Rowley.
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Ever since 18 month old child prodigy Elizabeth Barrett read flashcards on The Today Show, parents have been asking me what they can do to help their children acquire similar skills and learn to love reading.
Experts say that most children learn to read between the ages of six and seven and it is not beneficial to try to push a child to read before then. In fact, recent research shows that, quite to the contrary, it can actually do more harm than good. One of the most damaging things you can do to affect your child's relationship with books is to create pressure for her to read which can foster a negative association between your child and reading making her less likely to want to read.
There is, however, one simple and inexpensive thing you can do which will guarantee a positive difference in your child's reading success and that is reading aloud to her, which parents can even start while their child is in utero. Not only does this help to create a healthy relationship between your child and reading, it is also an excellent bonding ritual which has other beneficial elements for both parent and child.
There are many benefits to reading to your child, most notably the positive association between reading and pleasure that can last a lifetime. The other positive effects apparent in children who are read to are:
The single best predictor of language acquisition is the number and quality of words a child is exposed to each day. Reading has the added benefit of exposing children to "rare words," complex sentences, literary devices like alliteration and rhyming, descriptive language, and original synonyms and story conventions (i.e. "in a land far, far away"). According to Betty Bardige and Marilyn Segal, authors of Building Literacy with Love, "children who have lots of experience with books are likely to develop richer vocabularies and deeper understanding of the meanings, sounds, and uses of words than those with less literary experience. They are also likely to be familiar with the conventions of language and story form that they will encounter when they begin to read for themselves."
Reading makes a world of difference in achievement. An international study of 150,000 fourth graders found that students who were read to at home often scored 30 points higher than those who were only read to "sometimes." In a study done by the US Department of Education researchers found that children who were read to at least three times per week had significantly greater phonemic awareness when they entered kindergarten than children who were read to less often, and were also twice as likely to score in the top 25 percent in reading.
It Starts at Home
It is up to parents to create enthusiastic readers. Studies show that children who come from what researchers call a "print-rich environment" consistently score better in writing, reading and math skills than those from "print-poor environments." Print, in this case, relates a wide variety of materials, including: books, magazines, newspapers and even comic books. When researchers examined 21 kindergarten classes to see who displayed high interest in reading and who showed low interest in reading it became clear that the home environment and parents' reading habits are crucial factors. Of the high interest group, over 78 percent had mothers who read for leisure, 60 percent had fathers who read for leisure, the families had, on average, more than 80 books in their home, more than 98 percent of the kids were taken to the library and more than 76 percent were read to daily. This compared to the low interest group where only 28 percent of the mothers read for leisure, fewer than 16 percent of the fathers read for leisure, they averaged fewer than 32 books in the home, only 7 percent were taken to the library and fewer than 2 percent were read to daily.
An addition, book ownership is a significant factor in reading enthusiasm and achievement. According to Jim Trelease author of The Read Aloud-Hand Handbook children need to have books that they own, ones that they can put their name in and don't have to share with siblings. He also believes that as they get older they should be able to mark up books by writing in margins, highlighting and earmarking pages. This allows kids to learn new words, come back to passages that intrigue them and make the reading experience their own.
What Else You Can Do
Start reading to your child right away. Children, even infants, are never too young for a picture book. Understand that attention span is a learned process. Infant reading studies show that most infants average a three minute attention span. However, like exercising a muscle, those who are read to regularly can have an attention span as long as 30 minutes a day.
Take your child to the library. When children from "print poor" environments were taken to the library and given the opportunity to check out books, 96 percent of parents reported an increase in reading after the visit.
Let your child read in his bed or crib. 72.2 percent of children classified as "heavy readers" have parents who allow them to read in bed, compared to only 44.4 percent of those who were considered to be nonreaders. Start the habit early by allowing your infant or toddler to take board books into bed as soon as they show interest.
Be a role model. Children read more when they see other people reading. There is a direct correlation between how often children read for leisure and how often their parents do.
Create reading rituals. Create regular times in your children's day when you read to her. My daughters look forward to hearing two books after every meal while they are still in their chairs. We started this started this ritual as soon as they were able to use a highchair. Many parents use nap or bedtime for a reading ritual.
Keep books on hand at all times. Bring books with you wherever you go: to the park, doctors' appointments, play dates, relatives' homes, etc. Keep them in the car, in the diaper bag, in your purse and any place else you can think of.
Read to your child regularly. A study of early readers, like Elizabeth Barrett, found that their parents not only read them books but also read package labels, street signs, billboards and other reading material that they encountered throughout the day.
Make writing utensils and paper readily available to your child. Early reading curiosity often comes in the form of scribbling, drawing, copying objects and letters of the alphabet.
Answer all your child's questions. Satisfy your child's curiosities even if the questions interrupt reading a great story.
Have book baskets throughout the house in places where they are accessible. Have these baskets in your children's rooms, bathrooms, the kitchen, living room, and the car. A study of children who are most interested in reading found that they came from homes where books and printed materials were spread around the house, not just in one or two places.
Give your child a bed lamp. As soon as your child is old enough to read in bed get him a night light and allow him to stay up past his bedtime to read.
Point to the words as you are reading them. According to Trelease, the visual receptors in the brain outnumber the auditory receptors 30 to 1 and therefore the chances of a word being retained in our memory are 30 times greater if we see it instead of just hearing it. Also, it helps younger children to start to make the connection between letters and sounds.
Use books to help you deal with difficult situations. Children coping with the loss of a beloved pet can get solace from reading a book like The Tenth Good Thing about Barney. A toddler who is hitting a sibling can learn from Hands Are Not for Hitting.
Get books about topics that interest your kids. If you notice your toddler showing interest in birds, buy books about birds. If your child seems interested in fire engines get books about fire engines.
Always read the name of the author and illustrator. This helps children understand that people create books. It also gives them the opportunity to pursue other books by the same author if they like the book. With older children it is recommended that you help the author come to life by reading the dust jacket or even googling the author to learn a little something about him or her.
Have regular family reading time. During this time kids can read anything they want, even magazines or newspaper while the parents read, too. This should be a relaxed time and kids should not be quizzed about their reading. It can be as short and 10 minutes and as long as one hour, depending on the ages and concentration levels of your children.
Turn off the TV. Every minute that your child sits in front of the television is a minute he is not reading, playing, exercising, or being creative. Not only does TV viewing directly cut in to reading time, but once exposed to television and given the choice, most kids will pick television over books. Keep in mind that the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends no television viewing prior to the age of two and suggests that parents limit their children's viewing to fewer than 10 hours a week. This makes sense since an international study of 87,025 children in four countries found that children who view more than 10 hours of television in one week experienced a proportional decline in their academic scores.


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Imagine a camera that lets you take your shots first and focus your subject later with just one click. That's what a Mountain View start-up company, Lytro is 'focusing' on. They have come up with a new
idea technology that allows a picture's focus to be adjusted after it has been captured.
Instead of manually focusing or to wait for the camera to auto-focus, this technology allows you to focus after the photo has been clicked. When a photo taken with a Lytro camera and is uploaded on a computer, you can focus anywhere in the picture, on whatever object you want to. For example, you can focus a flower or focus the background instead of the flower i.e, you can focus the foreground or the background, it's your choice!
Ben Horowitz, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, who has invested $50 million in Lytro .
We see technology companies all the time, but it's rare that someone comes along with something that is this much of a breakthrough,
Fours years ago, scientists had invented a device that lets photographers focus blur images after the photos were captured. The camera used a special lens with ten times the normal depth of field to capture photos.
People can take photos much faster than ever, since they don't have to focus manually or wait for the camera to auto-focus. This technology could be the next big thing in cameras. Photos can also be captured from many angles which is not possible with any of the conventional cameras. The technique the Lytro's camera uses is by positioning an array of micro lenses between the main lens and the image sensor.
Here's a video I stumbled across that explains pretty much the same as this technology.
The technology also allows photographers to capture photos in very low-light conditions without using a flash. Lytro cameras can also capture 3-D images, which can be viewed on a computer screen with 3-D glasses.
Ren Ng, founder and CEO of Lytro said that the technology is used to take still images only, however there is high potential to use light filed technology for videography and science filed in future.
Here's an example of the technology actually works
More examples here
Reg Ng believes that Lytro will have bright and exciting future with this new technology. He expects professional and amateur photographers will be able to create and explore new kinds of photogrpahyic art.
Lytro has no plans of launching the camera until late 2011.


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Who Sang Is It Love? Kendrick Lamar feat. Angela McCluskey
Release Date: 2009-12-31
Genre: Hip Hop
Style: Jazzy Hip-Hop/Hardcore Hip-Hop
[Intro: Angela McCluskey]
Sit still, and close your eyes (Smoke to it)
What's behind the other door, oh
No more silence, don't kill this thing we got called love
Just searching for the perfect shot
[Hook: Angela McCluskey]
When love comes calling, don't love back
When love comes calling, don't look away
When love comes calling, don't look back
When love comes calling, don't look away
[Verse 1]
I used to write rhymes, all day and all night
While you were playing Playstation, my pencil was erasing lines
My conscious only knew whats half tight
At 3:14, it's time to give me a slice, my nigga
This is a dog's fight, my nigga
The soundtrack to life, my nigga
Kendrick Lamar, his momma called him that
He watched House Party, and ate Apple Jacks
Sold Sega games, his cousin sold crack
He pumped Reeboks, his uncles pumped packs
Pump, fake, jumpshot, ball hit the back
Board dreams of being pointguard was off limits jack
That's because that's these Compton streets was built not to win
You killed the nigga, I stole a bible, is that a sin?
Pardon me though, I'm searching for answers
The good kid from the ugly city, that's mad that he's handsome
Where is the love?
[Verse 2]
Give me rings, give me chains, mane
Give me a blue Benz, red Porsche, red Range
Give me black bitches, white hoes, new clothes
A mansion with marble floors and security codes
Then give me some land, or maybe I'll land a, G5
Clearport,say hello to the man
Give me awards, grammies, and let the crowd applaud
My name 'til they strain the veins in they vocal cords
Give me fame and fortune, me and Trump on golf courses
With that being said, give me Tiger sports endorsements
Give me billboards, whatever that people will kill for
Manahattan and 40/40, no 40's but rose poured
Give me vanity, give me Kurt Cobain sanity
Give me a city where Channel 7 newscasters cameras be
Give me horror like Amity, no, give me the charts
And if you ever renege, I'll still give you Kendrick Lamar, this is me
And that's love
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After months of preparations, Polestar Racing and Robert Dahlgren kicked off the evaluation season in the FIA World Touring Car Championship at Curitiba, Brazil, this weekend.
"We are satisfied with the premiere, it has met our expectations and it feels encouraging for the continuation of the season," said Christian Dahl, Managing Director of Polestar Racing.
The race in Brazil was the first of eleven WTCC races for Polestar Racing this season.
"Before this weekend, Curitiba was just a point on the map for us. Now we go home with one gigabyte of data and a lot more experience. The development work will benefit" said Dahl.
The team starts the 2011 season with a two litre naturally aspirated engine. A switch to a newly developed 1.6 turbo engine is going to take place at mid-season. The power difference compared to the competitors' new turbo engines for this season was especially clear at Curitiba, a track that is located 1000 meters above sea level.
"Our calculations show that we lose about nine tenths per lap compared to the turbo engines at this altitude. But keeping in mind how close we were to the top of the field, it shows that our development work with the chassis during the winter has paid off," said Dahl.
Dahlgren beat the pole position time from last year in the qualifying session and was just four hundreds of a second from going on to the second qualifying round. He went on to finish race one as 12:th and race two as 13:th.
"We look forward to the next race with confidence. We know that we have a strong concept and the development of our new turbo engine progresses nicely. We have learned a lot during these days and that was our plan," said Dahl.
WTCC continues in Europe in five weeks at Zolder in Belgium. For more information, log in to http://www.volvopolestarracing.com/
WTCC - Race 1 - Curitiba, Brazil
1 Rob Huff Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T
2 Yvan Muller Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T
3 Carlos Bueno Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T
4 Tom Coronel BMW 320 TC
5 Kristian Poulsen BMW 320 TC
12 Robert Dahlgren Volvo C30
WTCC - Race 2 - Curitiba, Brazil
1 Alain Menu Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T
2 Tom Coronel BMW 320 TC
3 Yvan Muller Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T
4 Robert Huff Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T
5 Carlos Bueno Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T
13 Robert Dahlgren Volvo C30
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"Our next guest is one of the very few people to be nominated for an Academy Award before they were old enough to drive". Jimmy Kimmel is introducing Saoirse Ronan.
He's not lying. Ronan was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress role at the tender, almost unimaginable, age of 13.
For the actress, who was born in the Bronx and grew up in County Carlow, the nomination was the beginning of a career that would push her into the most blinding of Hollywood limelight.
And while the red-carpet premieres, talk shows and screaming fans have become an ever-increasing part of her life, home, Ireland, isn't going anywhere.
"The hair and make-up people decorated the trailer for me and they had a cake… I did have a pint of Guinness with my friends when I got back to Dublin, though."
In describing her birthday celebrations to the Independent, Ronan has unconsciously informed us how life for an Irish-based Hollywood star works. One moment it's hair and make-up crews and trailers, the next it's a pint of the black stuff in Dublin with mates.
The contradictions don't end there. The multi-million dollar movie sets and far-flung locations must, at times at least, seem a little far from Ireland's second tiniest county, Carlow, where she grew up.
This is a county where a single castle is 800 years old (in contrast, Hollywood became a newly-established community in 1870) and another, Huntington Castle, home to the Temple of Isis, was built as a garrison for British soldiers in 1625.
But let's not pretend that Carlow doesn't have a cinematic quality. Altamont Gardens is a perfectly packaged Secret Garden, particularly beautiful during snowdrop season. Just ask your friendly neighbourhood Galanthophile (Snowdrop enthusiast).
In the Blackstairs, shared with Wexford, you've got a russet mountain range that could rival the Mournes for Narnia magic.
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Like millions of emigrants and travelling workers before her, Ronan has found her appreciation for Ireland grow simply from being away. "I've found that while I've been away my accent gets strong,", she told Irish magazine RSVP. "I become more Irish. I become more patriotic." Ireland, and Carlow, will do that to you.
Grow up in a county where sites like Duckett's Grove are Sunday escapes, or where a gentle curve of the River Barrow belongs only to you and your rod, and you'll find it easy to miss.
No matter where she is in the world, Ronan makes sure to give a little bit back home. She showed her appreciation of Ireland's delicious food revolution with a no-fee performance on behalf of Origin Green, a leader in sustainable high quality food and drink production, as well as becoming a spokesperson for the ISPCC (the child protection charity in Ireland), amongst others.
Ronan's star is on the rise and shows little sign of stopping. And on a journey that will take her around the world, it must be nice to know that Carlow, in its wee glory, isn't going anywhere.
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Symmetry properties of average densities and tangent measure distributions of measures on the line (1995)
Answering a question by Bedford and Fisher we show that for every Radon measure on the line with positive and finite lower and upper densities the one-sided average densities always agree with one half of the circular average densities at almost every point. We infer this result from a more general formula, which involves the notion of a tangent measure distribution introduced by Bandt and Graf. This formula shows that the tangent measure distributions are Palm distributions and define self-similar random measures in the sense of U. Zähle.
Tangent measure distributions were introduced by Bandt and Graf as a means to describe the local geometry of self-similar sets generated by iteration of contractive similitudes. In this paper we study the tangent measure distributions of hyperbolic Cantor sets generated by contractive mappings, which are not similitudes. We show that the tangent measure distributions of these sets equipped with either Hausdorff or Gibbs measure are unique almost everywhere and give an explicit formula describing them as probability distributions on the set of limit models of Bedford and Fisher.
Tangent measure distributions are a natural tool to describe the local geometry of arbitrary measures of any dimension. We show that for every measure on a Euclidean space and every s, at almost every point, all s-dimensional tangent measure distributions define statistically self-similar random measures. Consequently, the local geometry of general measures is not different from the local geometry of self-similar sets. We illustrate the strength of this result by showing how it can be used to improve recently proved relations between ordinary and average densities.


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'Did Spiders Evolve Knees Through Gene Duplication?'
THIS is the paper Mitchell is rubbishing:
"... Both species possess two paralogous dac genes that duplicated before the split between entelegyne and haplogyne spiders ...".
I looked up 'paralogous genes' and found this:
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"Paralogous genes are homologous genes that occur within one species and have diverged after a duplication event. Unlike orthologous genes, a paralogous gene is a new gene that holds a new function. These genes arise during gene duplication where one copy of the gene receives a mutation that gives rise to a new gene with a new function, though the function is often related to the role of the ancestral gene."
Does Mitchell bother to discuss paralogous - and orthologous - genes? Of course not. Her main argument appears to be "the scientists did not directly observe what they are inferring with regard the spiders' patella, therefore they are wrong".
She also tries to use two totally conflicting arguments. That dac1 and dac2 are too 'far' from identical for a gene duplication event to be able to explain the differences between them. But then she starts talking about 'duplicate genes' containing the 'same information'.
'No new information' does however tend to sum up YEC rebuttals of peer reviewed science papers. These scientists are carrying out an 'imaginary pursuit'? Answers in Genesis are skilled practitioners of just that.
PS In the 2015 paper 'paralogous' refers to gene duplication within a species prior to a split into two present day spider clades. In the other link, 'paralogous' refers to a new gene with new function following gene duplication event. Thus, although I am not an expert, I don't think the 2015 paper is using the term paralogous when it should be using orthologous (the third link says that orthologous genes are found when an ancestral gene and its function are maintained through a speciation event ie speciation does not change the gene's function). Maybe though, the dac1 and dac2 genes in these spiders were originally paralogous and dac2 acquired a new function, but then the two genes stayed the same as before after speciation/a split between spider clades ie they then were orthologous?