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I apologize in advance for the long, depressing post, but I've got a problem and I need help. Okay, so, three days ago I met this girl on omegle. (I know nice way to meet someone.) So we got talking and now, I guess you could say we became pretty good friends. But, today when I talked to her she was upset. She said that she had made some bad decisions the night before and that now, everybody hates her for it. I didn't ask what exactly she did but she said it was bad. She says that she is considering suicide and that this was not the first time she has. She said she has never told anyone else about this except me. I was hoping that you guys could give me advice on what to say and what not to say. I know you guys are usually supportive. (unless I make a grammar mistake.) But could you please just keep her in your prayers during this hard time for her.
@Garruk, idk...I've met someone a year or 2 ago that liked telling others that they're going to commit suicide...well because she had a problem and she loved the attention. She just met you and you're the only one she told it to? I would be very curious and very weary about it. But of course she could be telling the truth, so just tell her you're horny and you can easy her pain...ok bad joke, down vote me whatever, have to laugh at the bad sometimes, but seriously, ask what's wrong and what she did, she needs to open up to someone and get it out if she's serious. Let her know she's not alone. And again, you just met her...I'd be very cautious.
@Garruk, she is probably lying to you, but on the off chance that she isn't I would suggest that you ask her what's wrong, then actually talk with her about it, and try to convince her that it isn't her fault and that it will all get better eventually, I'm afraid I don't have experience in these kinds of things, but my untrained brain thinks that this is the best course of action.
@Garruk, I know a bustard who likes to say he will commit suicide. He was trying to impress a girl. He has been In therapy for the past 3 months.
@Garruk, i know what youre going through i had a friend tell me that and i almost cried. There could be the possibility she is doing it for attention because thats what my friend did. He kept it up for a week and even acted like a different person so just keep that in mind but even so still try to help. Thanks for notifying the community. I hope things get better
@Yuri Rection, ask her what has happened, usually when someone talks it out they feel a bit better. Then try to encourage her not to commit suicide and make her think it is a pothole in the road. Do keep in mind that sometimes people have "tunnel vision" meaning that they think that is the 'only' solution to their problem. But remember this, you can overhelp, keeping in mind that you cant prevent it but you can encourage them to prevent it themselves.
I know these are frowned upon but I want to thank the community I was in a car crash recently and I've been very shaken by it as I recently got my license. Thanks to every one for making me smile.


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I can't control it! I'm losing myself to it! I can feel it inside me trying to claw its way to the surface! I can't let them see me like this! If I let them get near me I don't know what I'll do! They saw what I did to that car; what are they thinking, trying to restrain me now? They must be crazy.
Hell, I must be crazy; only crazy people would let themselves live after what I've done. I don't know what keeps me going. I've tried to kill myself, I've tried everything I could get my hands on; a plastic bag over my head, slitting my wrists, drowning, car exhaust, bullet through my skull, overdosing, nothing works! I keep healing, every wound on my body just disappears as soon as I get them! I am immortal!
This strength, this power, I don't know where it come from or why I have it. I never asked for it! I don't know how much longer I have! I keep hearing voices all around me telling me to embrace it. To accept my damnation and let myself fall. I'm scared, more so than I've ever been.
It's almost midnight now, it always happens at midnight. He always comes at midnight. I don't know who he is but I can see him in the mirror; my doppelganger from Hell, literally. I can remember some of the things he does like some kind of twisted dream; throwing cars through the air like they were nothing, slaughtering whole families single-handedly, raping women, eviscerating SWAT teams. He's unstoppable.
Every time some cop gets a hold of him and cuffs him he just snaps the cuffs as if the chains were made of butter. And worst of all I remember the joy, the sadistic satisfaction in which he reveled in every time he took over my body. I also remember in vivid detail his speeches. How he talks to people and I even heard him say what his name was: Lucifer.
He's managed to avoid identification by the authorities. Every time he gets caught on camera his face, my face, is always obscured by static. I can't control him forever. My parents don't know anything about this. I've thought about talking to psychiatrists but I know that if I tell them what I've done they'll just throw me in a padded cell or give me the lethal injection on death row on charge for murder - not that any of that would work, anyway.
I talked to a psychic last week, though. I got an answer that made just a little more sense. I told her about what was going on and I told her about this Lucifer thing inside me.
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Is the whole mtf transgender twitch muscle related issue with women's sports prove that women's sports are a waste of time to begin with?
With the exception of gymnastics, figure skating, horseback riding / equestrian, dance, synchronized swimming (not promoting that for anyone), and professional driving where this is not an issue? Also that other activity in the Olympics where they fly the ribbons which is based more on finesse than anything else?
I personally don't find most sports entertaining, I have physical problems and I don't play any sports myself, but if I'm going to watch any sport in my own spare time, I would rather watch a physically superior sub-species rather than a less capable or afflicted one just because of what they look like (that's degrading) because other than watching it for what they look like (one again, that's degrading), it doesn't make any sense to support and watch them over watching the physically superior sub-species instead every single time. It just doesn't make any sense except for degrading reasons that most PC / "civil" people (the types who are normally into women's sports) would have a hard time saying in public let alone at a female sporting event.
I am however, completely in favor of women playing sports recreationally in there own time like they used to.
BQ : How come when it's discovered that females have a biological advantage over males in a male dominated sport, there legitimacy to compete with males is unquestioned if not celebrated but when it's discovered males or mtf transgenders have a biological advantage there's negative media coverage all over the place.
Why waste all that precious metal making rewards for female athletes when they can be used for currency?
My point is that I would actually rather be a spectator of mtf transgenders playing sports than a natural-born female because they are still physically superior.
Then you're an idiot. And I'm told that my logic is flawed? They are destroying your so-called "avenue" because they are physically superior to you. End of discussion. It's a waste of time for me and anyone who is not playing women's sports professionally and getting paid for it to have to sit through it and waste their life looking for entertainment and competition that isn't there or is just inferior to the men's variation.
I love how 3rd wave feminists consider themselves conservative because the conservatives defend gender dimorphism from a modern politically correct standpoint and everything that's wrong with it including women and thinking they are unique and special just because they are women. They are only critical of it because that is how they are trained to think right now. In the 1980's, they would laugh at the idea of women's sports being taken seriously by anyone. Even most democrats would oppose it.
It still doesn't make any sense for these women to get paid as professionals and wasting all this attention and funding when they are getting paid for being of the female sex 1st and for being somewhat decent athletes compared to the best male athletes 2nd. The entire existence of women's sports is inherently sexist just for the reasons it exists.
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- Common SenseLv 79 months agoFavorite Answer
Women's sports were created out of an acknowledgement that when it comes to athletic ability, males and females are not equal in most areas. Having separate, easier leagues for females allows women to compete, when they never would make the cuts if they had to equally compete against males.
The problem is feminists then turn around and act as if men's sports and women's sports are equal, when again, they were created out of an acknowledgement they are not equal. What many also miss, is that many "men's" leagues do allow women, but women simply can't compete well if at all in these leagues.
In the end, fans can watch whatever sports they want for whatever reason they want.
- FoofaLv 79 months ago
Depends on what you watch these sports for. I can appreciate the sheer athleticism of an Adam Rippon on the ice but he'll never have the grace of Sasha Cohen. I likewise enjoy the incredible tumbling of male gymnasts but can also appreciate the balletic craftsmanship females bring to their version of the sport. But when you get into things like the NBA vs. the WNBA I'd rather watch the guys. So I guess it all comes down to why you're watching sports and which sports you're watching.
- Anonymous9 months ago
They're not a waste of time FOR WOMEN. I do play sports though not at an elite level. I do watch sports professionally, including women's. They've been more helpful to me than any therapy or medication.
I hate that these MRAs in drag are going to destroy another avenue women had to express themselves.
BQ: when did that ever happen? Women are still banned from F1, and discouraged from other "macho sports" (these aren't even sports) like sniping, scuba diving, and flying planes where they have a physical advantage.
I don't see enough negative media coverage of transwomen, I see fawning praise of obvious cheating and calls to violence against women. Granted we probably run in different circles. This is what's in all the mainstream and lefty news and social media. The conservative press is more critical.
- Andrew SmithLv 79 months ago
You have touched on the concept of "handicapped" competition vs open competition. Now we give honour to the "WINNER" of some event. But if they were luckily born with better genes they may not have worked as hard or been as deserving as someone who started with a lot less but did more with what they had.
So who should we give credit to? Dividing sports into male and female does not address the issue because a female that is most closely a male is likely to win. Hence the various sex tests over the years. Yet you still have some women who are solider than most men and are permitted to compete against other women. Recently there has been the fuss that if we permit men, who identify as women, to BE women elsewhere then isn't it discriminatory to stop them competing as women in sport. But if that is permitted then every nation will put forward men who pose as women for the sole purpose of gaining medals and that would be the complete end of all women's sport as a vehicle for women.
In essence while there is too much credit given to winning then there will always be people and nations prepared to cheat to win. Using any possible mechanism that they can get away with. Women's sport is just one small part of this total mess.
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- David B.Lv 79 months ago
Wow, talk about a flawed logic. If you did pursue a sport and had aspirations of possibly receiving a scholarship for college or a medal in the Olympics, I guarantee you would not be saying what I think you are saying. You are certainly entitled to your opinion but that doesn't make it factually accurate in the least bit.


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In another variation of the old steal-the-wallet-at-the-coffee-shop trick, a bandit took a woman's bag after she left it at the Union Street Tea Lounge on April 9.
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It's working for me here, video, sound, everything. The interface is extremely slow (meaning I click, go get coffee, and when I've taken a nap, the UI comes up), but the video and sound play, and I can switch channels and everything seems functional. However, it's a bit jumpy compared to actually running it in Windows, and the sound is... scratchy is about the best way to put it, I think. I've got the sound set to 48000 sample rate and 16 bits per sample, with emulation and driver emulation (I tried all the way up through Full hardware acceleration, and it just became more jumpy and scratchy).
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No Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life [TTC Video]
16 December 2016, 23:51
Course No 437| AVI, DivX, 640x480 | MP3, 128 kbps, 2 Ch | 24x30 mins | + PDF Guidebook | 4.12GB
The message of Existentialism, unlike that of many more obscure and academic philosophical movements, is about as simple as can be. It is that every one of us, as an individual, is responsible—responsible for what we do, responsible for who we are, responsible for the way we face and deal with the world, responsible, ultimately, for the way the world is.
It is, in a very short phrase, the philosophy of 'No excuses!' We cannot shift that burden onto God, or nature, or the ways of the world."
—Professor Robert Solomon
If you believe that life should be a quest for values, reasons, and purpose—filled with passion and governed by individual responsibility—then yours is the sort of mind to which the Existentialist philosophers were speaking.
More than a half-century after it burst upon the intellectual scene, Existentialism has continued to exert a profound attraction for individuals driven to re-examine life's most fundamental questions of individual responsibility, morality, and personal freedom.
- What is life?
- What is my place in it?
- What choices does this obligate me to make?
If you want to enrich your own understanding of this unique philosophical movement, the visionary thinkers it brought together to ponder these questions, and the prominent role it still plays in contemporary thought, you now have an opportunity to do so with this 24-lecture course.
Professor Solomon is Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Business and Philosophy at The University of Texas at Austin. He has written several books on a variety of philosophical topics that have been translated into more than a dozen languages.
He is the recipient of teaching awards and honors, including the Standard Oil Outstanding Teaching Award, The University of Texas Presidential Associates' Teaching Award (twice), a Fulbright Lecture Award, University Research and National Endowment for the Humanities grants, and the Chad Oliver Plan II Teaching Award. He is also a member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers.
What is Existentialism?
Existentialism is a movement, a "sensibility" that can be traced throughout the history of Western philosophy. Its central themes are:
- Significance of the individual
- Importance of passion
- Irrational aspects of life
- Importance of human freedom.
"Existentialism is, in my view, the most exciting and important philosophical movement of the past century and a half," states Professor Solomon.
"Fifty years after the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre gave it its identity, and 150 years after the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard gave it its initial impetus, Existentialism continues to win new enthusiasts and, in keeping with its still exciting and revolutionary message, vehement critics."
In this series you:
- Explore the religious Existentialism of Kierkegaard
- Hear the warrior rhetoric and often-shocking claims about religion and morality of Nietzsche
- Absorb the bold and profound fiction of Camus
- Comprehend the radical and uncompromising notion of freedom championed by Sartre
- Consider the searching analysis of human historicity and finitude offered by Martin Heidegger.
You see how these thinkers relate to one another and to the larger tradition of philosophy itself.
Beyond Its Basic Message, Nothing Straightforward About It
To say that the basic message of Existentialism is quite simple and straightforward is not to say that the philosophers or the philosophies that make up the movement are simple and straightforward.
The movement itself is something of a fabrication. None of the major Existentialist figures—only excepting Sartre—would recognize themselves as part of a "movement" at all. Kierkegaard and Nietzsche were both ferocious individualists who vehemently rejected all movements.
Heidegger was deeply offended when he was linked with Sartre as one of the Existentialists, and he publicly denounced the association. Camus and Sartre once were friends, but they quarreled over politics and Camus publicly rejected the association.
The Existentialists' writings, too, are by no means simple and straightforward. Kierkegaard and Nietzsche write well but in challenging, often disjointed exhortations.
Heidegger is among the most difficult writers in the entire history of philosophy, and even Sartre—a lucid literary writer when he wants to be—imitates some of the worst elements of Heidegger's notorious style.
Much of the challenge of this course of lectures, accordingly, is to free the exciting and revolutionary message of Existentialism from its often formidable textual enclosures.
The Great Existentialist Writers
Albert Camus, Lectures 1–6. After an introduction to Existentialism, the course begins with a discussion of the 20th-century writer and philosopher Camus (1913-60). Chronologically, Camus is late in the game (you trace Existentialist ideas as far back as Kierkegaard and Nietzsche in the mid-19th century).
You start with his most famous novel, The Stranger, published in the early 1940s. You also examine The Myth of Sisyphus, in which he introduces his infamous concept of "The Absurd"; The Plague; and The Fall.
Professor Solomon's aim in opening with Camus is to "set a certain mood for the rest of the course, a rebellious, restless, yet thoroughly conscientious mood, which I believe Camus exemplifies both in his writings and in his life."
Søren Kierkegaard, Lectures 7–9. Danish philosopher Kierkegaard (1813-55) was a deeply religious philosopher—a pious Christian—and his Existentialist thought was devoted to the question, "What does it mean to be—or rather, what does it mean to become—a Christian?"
"We should thus be advised that, contrary to some popular misunderstandings, Existentialism is by no means an antireligious or unspiritual philosophy. It can and often does embrace God, as well as a host of visions of the world that we can, without apology, call spiritual," notes Dr. Solomon.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Lectures 10–13 . Nietzsche (1844–1900) is perhaps best known for his bold declaration "God is dead." He is also well known as a self-proclaimed "immoralist."
In fact, both of these phrases are misleading, argues Dr. Solomon. Nietzsche was by no means the first person to say that God is dead (Martin Luther had said it three centuries before), and Nietzsche himself was anything but an immoral person.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Franz Kafka, Hermann Hesse, Lecture 14. Professor Solomon turns briefly to three diverse figures from literature who display Existentialist themes and temperaments in their works: Dostoevsky (1821–81), the great Russian novelist; Kafka (1883–1924), the brilliant Czech novelist and story writer; and Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), a 20th-century Swiss writer who combined a fascination with Asian philosophy with a profoundly Nietzschean interest and temperament.
Edmund Husserl, Lecture 15. The German-Czech philosopher Husserl (1859–1938) invented a philosophical technique called "phenomenology." Husserl is not an Existentialist, but you study him because of his influence on Heidegger and Sartre, both of whom, at the beginning of their careers, considered themselves phenomenologists.
Jean-Paul Sartre, Lectures 18–23. Professor Solomon suggests that much of what is best in Postmodernism is taken more or less directly from Sartre (1905–80), despite the fact that he is typically attacked as the very antithesis of Postmodernism.
Existentialism, Dr. Solomon argues, was and is not just another French intellectual fashion but a timely antidote to some of the worst self-(mis)understandings of the end of the century.
The series concludes with a comparison and contrast with French philosophy since Sartre's time.
The New York Times Book of the Dead: 320 Print and 10,000 Digital Obituaries of Extraordinary People [EPUB]
16 December 2016, 06:01
The obituary page of The New York Times is a celebration of extraordinary lives. This groundbreaking package includes 300 obits in the book with exclusive online access to 10,000 more of the most important and fascinating obituaries the Times has ever published.
The Times' obituary editor, William McDonald, selected 320 of the most important and influential obits from the newspaper's archives. In chapters like "Stage and Screen," "Titans of Business," "The Notorious," "Scientists and Healers," "Athletes," and "American Leaders," the entries include a wide variety of newsmakers from the last century and a half, including Annie Oakley, Theodore Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, Marilyn Monroe, Coco Chanel, Malcolm X, Jackie Robinson and Prince.
Prepper's Guide to Knots: The 100 Most Useful Tying Techniques for Surviving any Disaster [EPUB]
16 December 2016, 05:52
When catastrophe strikes and modern technologies fail, ropework skills will become as essential for survival as they were for centuries past. The variety of knots taught in this book are guaranteed to hold against even the toughest forces, ensuring that an emergency doesn't turn into a disaster. When your life, home, and property are hanging by a thread, these powerful knots are too strong to break:
- Create sturdy shelter with a HARNESS BEND
- Preserve sacks of grain with a BAG KNOT
- Move fallen trees with a BOWLINE
- Transport injured persons with a MUNTER HITCH
- Secure your home against intruders with a ZEPPELIN BEND
- Hang rations above floodwater with a SCAFFOLD KNOT
Prepper's Guide to Knots features clear, step-by-step instructions on tying each knot. It also provides information on selecting the right type of rope, the history of ropework and the specific benefits of each knot.
The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics [EPUB]
16 December 2016, 05:46
What's happening in global politics, and is there a thread that ties it all together? As if overnight, many Democrats revolted and passionately backed a socialist named Bernie Sanders; the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, in a stunning rebuke; the vituperative billionaire Donald Trump became the presidential nominee of the Republican Party; and a slew of rebellious parties continued to win election after election in countries like Switzerland, Norway, Italy, Austria, and Greece.
John B. Judis, one of America's most respected political analysts, tells us why we need to understand the populist movement that began in the United States in the 1890s and whose politics have recurred on both sides of the Atlantic ever since. The Populist Explosion is essential reading for anyone hoping to grasp a global political system that is only just beginning what will be a long-running and highly consequential readjustment.
The Economist Audio Edition [December 17, 2016]
16 December 2016, 05:41
MP3@48 kbps + EPUB + AZW3 | 163.74MB
The fall of Aleppo: Putin's victory, the West's failure
- China's digital dictatorship
- Psychoanalyzing Park Geun-hye
- The uselessness of management theory
- Inside DeepMind
- U.S.: Russian interference -- The plot against America
- S&T: Oncology-- Cancer's master criminals
- S&T: Drug addiction -- Souring the poppy's milk
The Sound of the One Hand: 281 Zen Koans with Answers [EPUB]
16 December 2016, 03:18
When The Sound of the One Hand came out in Japan in 1916 it caused a scandal. Zen was a secretive practice, its wisdom relayed from master to novice in strictest privacy. That a handbook existed recording not only the riddling koans that are central to Zen teaching but also detailing the answers to them seemed to mark Zen as rote, not revelatory.
For all that, The Sound of the One Hand opens the door to Zen like no other book. Including koans that go back to the master who first brought the koan teaching method from China to Japan in the eighteenth century, this book offers, in the words of the translator, editor, and Zen initiate Yoel Hoffmann, "the clearest, most detailed, and most correct picture of Zen" that can be found. What we have here is an extraordinary introduction to Zen thought as lived thought, a treasury of problems, paradoxes, and performance that will appeal to artists, writers, and philosophers as well as Buddhists and students of religion.
Genghis Khan and the Quest for God: How the World's Greatest Conqueror Gave Us Religious Freedom [EPUB]
16 December 2016, 03:15
A landmark biography by the New York Times bestselling author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World that reveals how Genghis harnessed the power of religion to rule the largest empire the world has ever known.
Throughout history the world's greatest conquerors have made their mark not just on the battlefield, but in the societies they have transformed. Genghis Khan conquered by arms and bravery, but he ruled by commerce and religion. He created the world's greatest trading network and drastically lowered taxes for merchants, but he knew that if his empire was going to last, he would need something stronger and more binding than trade. He needed religion. And so, unlike the Christian, Taoist and Muslim conquerors who came before him, he gave his subjects freedom of religion. Genghis lived in the 13th century, but he struggled with many of the same problems we face today: How should one balance religious freedom with the need to reign in fanatics? Can one compel rival religions - driven by deep seated hatred--to live together in peace?
A celebrated anthropologist whose bestselling Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World radically transformed our understanding of the Mongols and their legacy, Jack Weatherford has spent eighteen years exploring areas of Mongolia closed until the fall of the Soviet Union and researching The Secret History of the Mongols, an astonishing document written in code that was only recently discovered. He pored through archives and found groundbreaking evidence of Genghis's influence on the founding fathers and his essential impact on Thomas Jefferson. Genghis Khan and the Quest for God is a masterpiece of erudition and insight, his most personal and resonant work.
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World [EPUB]
16 December 2016, 03:13
The name Genghis Khan often conjures the image of a relentless, bloodthirsty barbarian on horseback leading a ruthless band of nomadic warriors in the looting of the civilized world. But the surprising truth is that Genghis Khan was a visionary leader whose conquests joined backward Europe with the flourishing cultures of Asia to trigger a global awakening, an unprecedented explosion of technologies, trade, and ideas. In Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Jack Weatherford, the only Western scholar ever to be allowed into the Mongols' "Great Taboo"—Genghis Khan's homeland and forbidden burial site—tracks the astonishing story of Genghis Khan and his descendants, and their conquest and transformation of the world.
Fighting his way to power on the remote steppes of Mongolia, Genghis Khan developed revolutionary military strategies and weaponry that emphasized rapid attack and siege warfare, which he then brilliantly used to overwhelm opposing armies in Asia, break the back of the Islamic world, and render the armored knights of Europe obsolete. Under Genghis Khan, the Mongol army never numbered more than 100,000 warriors, yet it subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans conquered in four hundred. With an empire that stretched from Siberia to India, from Vietnam to Hungary, and from Korea to the Balkans, the Mongols dramatically redrew the map of the globe, connecting disparate kingdoms into a new world order.
But contrary to popular wisdom, Weatherford reveals that the Mongols were not just masters of conquest, but possessed a genius for progressive and benevolent rule. On every level and from any perspective, the scale and scope of Genghis Khan's accomplishments challenge the limits of imagination. Genghis Khan was an innovative leader, the first ruler in many conquered countries to put the power of law above his own power, encourage religious freedom, create public schools, grant diplomatic immunity, abolish torture, and institute free trade. The trade routes he created became lucrative pathways for commerce, but also for ideas, technologies, and expertise that transformed the way people lived. The Mongols introduced the first international paper currency and postal system and developed and spread revolutionary technologies like printing, the cannon, compass, and abacus. They took local foods and products like lemons, carrots, noodles, tea, rugs, playing cards, and pants and turned them into staples of life around the world. The Mongols were the architects of a new way of life at a pivotal time in history.
In Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Jack Weatherford resurrects the true history of Genghis Khan, from the story of his relentless rise through Mongol tribal culture to the waging of his devastatingly successful wars and the explosion of civilization that the Mongol Empire unleashed. This dazzling work of revisionist history doesn't just paint an unprecedented portrait of a great leader and his legacy, but challenges us to reconsider how the modern world was made.
The Everything Art Handbook [EPUB]
16 December 2016, 03:07
The Everything Art Handbook is an all-inclusive, go-to resource for artists of any skill level.
A refreshing, accessible compendium of materials and techniques, The Everything Art Handbook is the perfect all-inclusive resource for beginning artists wanting to experiment and play with a variety of art mediums and techniques. The Everything Art Handbook is divided into sections focusing on different art mediums, such as drawing, pastel, watercolor, acrylic, oil, calligraphy, mixed media, color, composition, and more. Each section includes a basic overview of the technique, instructions for selecting and working with the right tools and materials, step-by-step sample artwork, and helpful sidebars with advice from professional artists. Using clear, informative explanations and tips for selecting the right tools and achieving the best results, The Everything Art Handbook is an approachable reference guide for contemporary artists of any skill level.
Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours [EPUB]
16 December 2016, 03:04
Today, hundreds of thousands of people, desperate to escape war, violence and poverty, are crossing the Mediterranean to seek refuge in Europe. Our response from our protected European standpoint, argues Slavoj Zizek, offers two versions of ideological blackmail: either we open our doors as widely as possible; or we try to pull up the drawbridge. Both solutions are bad, states Zizek. They merely prolong the problem, rather than tackling it.
The refugee crisis also presents an opportunity, a unique chance for Europe to redefine itself: but, if we are to do so, we have to start raising unpleasant and difficult questions. We must also acknowledge that large migrations are our future: only then can we commit to a carefully prepared process of change, one founded not on a community that see the excluded as a threat, but one that takes as its basis the shared substance of our social being.
The only way, in other words, to get to the heart of one of the greatest issues confronting Europe today is to insist on the global solidarity of the exploited and oppressed. Maybe such solidarity is a utopia. But, warns Zizek, if we don't engage in it, then we are really lost. And we will deserve to be lost.
Internet of Things: Principles and Paradigms [EPUB]
16 December 2016, 02:59
Internet of Things: Principles and Paradigms captures the state-of-the-art research in Internet of Things, its applications, architectures, and technologies. The book identifies potential future directions and technologies that facilitate insight into numerous scientific, business, and consumer applications. The Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm promises to make any electronic devices part of the Internet environment. This new paradigm opens the doors to new innovations and interactions between people and things that will enhance the quality of life and utilization of scarce resources.
To help realize the full potential of IoT, the book addresses its numerous challenges and develops the conceptual and technological solutions for tackling them. These challenges include the development of scalable architecture, moving from closed systems to open systems, designing interaction protocols, autonomic management, and the privacy and ethical issues around data sensing, storage, and processing.
- Addresses the main concepts and features of the IoT paradigm
- Describes different architectures for managing IoT platforms
- Provides insight on trust, security, and privacy in IoT environments
- Describes data management techniques applied to the IoT environment
- Examines the key enablers and solutions to enable practical IoT systems
- Looks at the key developments that support next generation IoT platforms
- Includes input from expert contributors from both academia and industry on building and deploying IoT platforms and applications
How to Pay Zero Taxes, 2017: Your Guide to Every Tax Break the IRS Allows [EPUB]
16 December 2016, 02:52
Pay less to the IRS! This go-to tax guide reveals what you need to know to save on your taxes year after year.
Tax time can be a serious drain on your resources―emotionally and financially. For over three decades How to Pay Zero Taxes has helped people just like you save money on their taxes. Engagingly written to make even the most complex information easy to understand, this reader-friendly guide zeroes in on what matters most: tax saving, not tax preparation. Tax expert Jeff Schnepper shares valuable advice on everything from converting personal expenses into business deductions to avoiding (or surviving) an audit.
Fully updated for 2017, the book shows you how to take advantage of IRS-sanctioned deductions, shelters, credits, exemptions, and more. In addition to legal deductions, you'll find hundreds of insider tips designed to lower your tax bill. Whether you're a tax professional or a home filer, this book will help you pay less to the IRS this year―and every year.
Engineering Happiness: A New Approach for Building a Joyful Life [EPUB]
16 December 2016, 02:47
Manel Baucells and Rakesh Sarin have been conducting ground-breaking research on happiness for more than a decade, and in this book they distill their provocative findings into a lively, accessible guide for a wide audience of readers. Integrating their own research with the latest thinking in the behavioral and social sciences—including management science, psychology, and economics—they offer a new approach to the puzzle of happiness. Woven throughout with wisdom from the world's religions and literatures, Engineering Happiness has something to offer everyone—regardless of background, profession, or aspiration—who wants to better understand, control, and attain a more joyful life.
- Shows how a few major principles can explain how happiness works and why it is so elusive
- Demonstrates how the essence of attaining happiness is choice
- Explores how to avoid happiness traps
- Tells how to recognize happiness triggers in everyday life
Eat With Intention: Recipes and Meditations for a Life that Lights You Up [EPUB]
16 December 2016, 02:42
Make Peace with Your Plate
This is not your traditional cookbook. You will not have to do a cleanse, eat kale every day, or eliminate an entire food group. Instead, you will learn the step-by-step process for eating with intention and put a stop to the never ending cycle of fad diets, constant exhaustion, and general unhappiness with your body and yourself.
Meditation and wellness teacher Cassandra Bodzak struggled for years with unhealthy dieting, stomach pains, and food allergies. It was only when she began to listen to her body and eat with intention that she transformed her life. In this book, she shares her wisdom to help you discover:
- How to uncover the foods that are hurting you
- How to nourish your body from a place of self-love
- How to incorporate a daily gratitude or meditation practice into your life
- How to prepare nearly 75 plant-based recipes, each accompanied by a mantra and meditation for eating with purpose and fueling your body
So if you want to learn how to quiet your mind, start listening to your own body, and love your whole self, then you are ready for this blueprint to a life that lights you up from the inside out. You are ready to live your best life with a clear head, open heart, and endless energy.


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After nearly 4 months of closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Walt Disney World resort will begin a phased reopening of their theme parks on July 11, 2020. As with the rest of the world, Disney will be offering a modified experience for the safety of their guests and Cast Members. My guide attempts to cover most of the major changes coming to Disney, but I've linked to Disney's official information pages at the end of each section. It's a lot of information and it's constantly changing. Always check with Disney to make sure information is accurate.
Walt Disney World will not be reopening all of their resort hotels and those that are reopening will be staggered. This is likely due to the use of several resorts for the NBA to finish their 2019-2020 season and to handle the lower theme park capacity.
Face coverings/masks will be required in resort hotel public spaces. They will not be required while swimming nor while dining. Obviously you're free to take your mask off in your room.
Disney will be increasing their cleaning of rooms between guests. Carpets will be steamed in addition to being vacuumed. Certain things like TV remotes will be cleaned then wrapped in plastic for additional protection.
Housekeeping during your stay will be reduced to every other day and will only involve trash collection, towel service, wiping down counters, and vacuuming if needed. You may decline this every other day housekeeping completely if you aren't comfortable. If you need anything, you'll be able to call into housekeeping and have it delivered to your door.
Unfortunately, details are still scarce with what Disney's plans are with those who have existing reservations. While Disney will do everything to accommodate those with existing plans, it may be hard due to less capacity. Most likely each reservation will be a different situation and there will be no one-size-fits-all solution. It's being reported that it's taking several hours to reach Disney via phone, so if you do feel the need to contact Disney, it's best to pack your patience and hook your phone up to a charger.
Disney has resumed sales of tickets, hotels, and packages for 2020 as of July 9.
Yes, you will. Disney has planned their operation modifications through September 2021 at the moment. It's expected if the situation improves Disney will begin dropping these modifications, but (obviously) a concrete timeline is unknown. If you want a full, pre-before-the-world-ended, Disney experience, your best bet is to wait until 2022.
Disney will begin accepting 2021 reservations on June 28, 2020. We're still waiting to see how far into 2021 Disney allows bookings.
If you have any additional questions or concerns with the reopening of the resort hotels, including what resort dining locations will be open and pool procedures, Disney has provided an extensive page with information
The largest change coming to the Walt Disney World theme parks is the introduction of the Disney Park Pass system to accommodate for lower capacity due to social distancing. This is a reservation system that is required for all guests, including Annual Passholders, to enter the theme parks. Additional modifications will be made throughout the park to promote social distancing and avoid large crowds.
Disney will stagger the reopening of their 4 theme parks between two dates:
There will be pre-registered Annual Passholder previews at both Magic Kingdom & Animal Kingdom July 9-10, but all reservations have been taken.
Face coverings/masks will be required at all times in Walt Disney World theme parks, except when dining. It remains to be seen how strict Disney is with enforcement, but remember: Walt Disney World is private property and they have the right to eject and/or ban you.
All guests must have a temperature below 100.4°F (38°C). If any guest in your party has a temperature, your entire party will be denied entry. Disney will offer an isolated "cool down" area to allow for re-testing should you fail the initial scan (Florida is the surface of the sun during the summer after all). Add a thermometer to your packing list and check everyone in your party before you head to a park.
Due to the one-park-per-day requirement at the launch of the Disney Park Pass system, Park Hopping will not be allowed with the initial reopening. Those with existing Park Hopper tickets will be refunded for the Park Hopper addition, but details are unknown when and how they'll be processed.
To accommodate the need for social distancing on transportation to and from the parks, Disney will stagger openings and closing of each park during the initial reopening. Hours will also be shortened, likely due to less Cast Members being available.
Extra Magic Hours will be temporarily unavailable for the time being.
The scheduled daily park hours for the time being:
To keep proper social distancing between groups, rides and attractions will be at either a limited capacity or closed. Guests will likely be required to sanitize their hands before and after they ride. Masks will be required to continue to be worn, but it's expected that water rides like Splash Mountain and Kali River Rapids will require you to take them off.
Here's the list per-park of what's reopening and remaining closed:
Disney will temporarily disable the FastPass+ system for the time being. All rides will be stand-by only, with the exception of Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance.
Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance will continue to use its Virtual Queue boarding group system. Instead of releasing all boarding groups right away at park opening, group releases are staggered between two windows: 10AM and 2PM.
People already hated a stranger sitting next to them on rides, so understandably, single rider lines are temporarily suspended. Single riders will likely have vehicles to themselves where proper distancing can't be maintained.
Markers to remind the 6' social distancing guideline will be placed around the park in areas where lines typically form. Hand sanitizer will be available (potentially required) before boarding attractions and when exiting. Portable hand washing stations will be located throughout the parks to help guests keep clean.
Due to the large crowds that form, most entertainment will be temporarily suspended. This includes stage productions like Festival of the Lion King or Voyage of the Little Mermaid. However, there will be limited street entertainment available.
Due to the challenges involved with maintaining proper distancing between characters and guests, Disney will not be offering character meet & greets.
In place of the meet & greets are "character calvacades" in each park. These calvacades feature the characters on floats similar to parades, but Disney does not announce when these happen to keep people from crowding to await them. The calvacades also keep moving continuously to prevent crowds from forming.
Due to social distancing guidelines, capacity on transportation is heavily modified. Disney's staggered park openings and closings seem to point towards them using as much as their army of buses as possible for routes that require so. There is a ton of encouragement to utilize the Skyliner gondola system and walking paths where available. Disney had been working on a walking path between Magic Kingdom and Grand Floridian before the closure and is likely fast tracking work to have it open soon.
The Disney Park Pass system is very similar to the FastPass+ system. You create a "party" with everyone in your group, select the date and theme park you wish to visit, then reserve.
Availability is split between 3 different groups:
Each group has its own availability allotment. Annual Passholder reservations have been more limited than the other 2 groups, but Disney has begun re-shifting availability more into Passholders' favor as tourism remains stagnant. Disney has a live updating calendar with all 3 groups' availability.
Ticket holders will be able to book up to the amount of days they have purchased. Annual Passholders will be allowed to book a maximum of 3 days unless they have a Disney or partner hotel reservation, which will then allow them to book any day during their stay (currently not working due to a glitch in the system).
Disney has resumed sales of ticket sales for 2020 as of July 9. Currently the only tickets available are one park per day due to the ongoing closures of the water parks and the Disney Park Pass system only allowing one park reservation per day.
Theme park ticket purchases for 2021 are now available. Reservations with the Disney Park Pass system are required through September 26, 2021. Park hoppers are available to purchase for all of 2021, but there's no guarantee when park hopping will actually return.
If you have any additional questions or concerns regarding the theme parks, Disney has several pages on their website:
Like elsewhere around the world, Walt Disney World will operate their dining locations with a reduced capacity. Certain dining locations will continue to be temporarily closed, while others will be heavily modified.
It seems like the majority of dining locations will be open at Walt Disney World, but select locations will be closed mainly due to limited space.
Due to a recent mandate by the Florida Government, all bars that receive more than 50% of their revenue from alcohol have been ordered to stop serving on-premise. To-go sales are still allowed, but it remains to be seen what locations Disney will be affected by the mandate.
Many Epcot locations will remain closed due to International Cast Members not being able to return with the current travel restrictions; no timetable has been given about their return either.
Disney took the bold step in early June to cancel all existing Advance Dining Reservations (frequently abbreviated as ADR) regardless of date. Reservations have slowly become available as Disney confirms their plans.
The window for reservations has been greatly reduced from 180 days to 60 days.
It's important to note an Advance Dining Reservation does not guarantee you access to a theme park. Only a Disney Park Pass reservation guarantees access to a theme park. Due to the duct tape nature of Disney IT, they're unlikely to check/require Disney Park Pass reservations to make theme park dining reservations.
An Advanced Dining Reservation will be required to dine in a resort restaurant where you are not staying. If you are staying at a resort, you will have access to all restaurants at the property, but it's highly encouraged to make an Advanced Dining Reservation to guarantee seating.
All Character Dining, except for Garden Grill at Epcot and breakfast at Topolino's Terrace at Disney's Riviera Resort will be temporarily suspended. Locations that offer non-Character Dining experiences (like Trattoria al Forno) will continue to offer those options.
Disney Tourist Blog has a great review of the modified Character Dining experience at Topolino's Terrace.
Non-character dining buffet locations are rumored to become family style. They will still be all-you-care-to-enjoy, but a Cast Member will serve your food in addition to drinks.
Mobile ordering allows you to use the My Disney Experience app to order and pay for your meal ahead of time and pick it up at various Quick Service locations. Disney has touted more locations will offer mobile ordering, but it's currently unknown where it's exactly being expanded too.
Originally limited to just credit cards, Disney has worked over the last few months to expand payment options to include Disney Gift Cards, Apple Pay, and Google Pay.
Due to the limited capacity, and the continuing supply issues, many locations will be modifying their menus.
Disney will encourage scanning a QR code with your phone at table service restaurants to view menus. They may offer printed single use menus, but it hasn't been confirmed.
If you have any additional questions or concerns about dining, including dining locations that will be open, Disney has a page on their website


text: Pineapple Guesthouse is a family run guesthouse at the southern end of Karon Beach Phuket about four minutes walk to this long stretch of sand.The guesthouse offers standard and superior rooms. The superior rooms are all newly decorated with balconies air conditioning en suite bathroom with hot shower in room safe large fridge and cable TV. Standard rooms have similar facilities but are at the back of the guesthouse with no balconies.Pineapple Cafe is open daily for breakfast and lunch as well as drinks.Free wifi is available throughout.Pineapple attracts guests from all over the world and the friendly atmosphere ensures a number of repeat visitors. The staff are consistently praised in reviews.We don't offer luxury or so called boutique rooms but if you are looking for good value accommodation in a reasonable location with good facilities then Pineapple may be the place you are looking for.


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I do a tactical lecture on this battle and would be happy to lebd a hand. I gave it tonight to an SCV camp in fact.
I have stuff on weapons, the tactics, etc.
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Managed the Atmospheric Chemistry program that funds a wide variety of research throughout the community. Program provides about $17 million annually to university professors, national laboratory scientists, and private company researchers. Participated in interagency committees to optimize support of key scientific activities. Served on internal committees to provide guidance to support related scientific activities.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Ph. D. Chemistry,
Dissertation: Peroxy Radical Measurement by Chemical Amplification
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, M.S. Chemistry
Kansas Wesleyan, Salina, Kansas, B.A. Chemistry and Mathematics, Physics Minor
Professional experience
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
Senior Research Associate
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
Senior Scientist, Section Head, Group Leader, Scientist III, II, I, Visiting Scientist
National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia
Associate Program Director
Christopher Cantrell short CV
Conducted and led research in the laboratory, field, and using numerical methods to improve understanding of chemical processes that affect atmospheric composition and air quality. Research included kinetic and spectroscopic studies to determine quantities of relevance to understanding atmospheric photochemistry. Developed and improved instrumentation for measurement of atmospheric composition from ground-based and aircraft platforms. Instruments widely used by members of community. During tenure, positions ranged from prestigious Advanced Study Program post-doctoral fellow through the scientist ladder to the top level of Senior Scientist. Managed and led small to medium groups in day-to-day research activities, and larger groups in field measurement campaigns. Activities included scientific planning and justification, interfacing with upper management and funding agencies, and enabling scientific reporting of results. Scientific service within the organization and the overall scientific community. Well-connected and known within the atmospheric chemistry community.
Improved existing instrumentation and developed new techniques to quantify the composition of the troposphere and to improve understanding of atmospheric chemical processes. Advised and mentored undergraduate and graduate students. Provided service within the department and the institution to support educational and scientific activities. Sought to improve communication and collaboration across organizational units.
Christopher Cantrell
Here is it, July 2019, and we have been in France more than one year. We are settling into life in Europe, and planning for the ACROSS campaign (the centerpiece of my MOPGA proposal) is coming along. I have attended several conferences in the past few months including the EGU in Vienna, LEFE-CHAT in Lyon, and ICCK in Orleans. We are soon returning to the US, where I will attend the International Conference on Photochemistry in Boulder, Colorado.
In June 2018, Chris and Rose moved to France as Chris begins work at the Inter-university Laboratory for Atmospheric Systems (LISA) on the Universite Paris-est Creteil (UPEC) campus in the Paris suburb of Creteil.
In December, 2017, it was announced that Chris was selected as one of 18 laureates of the French program "Make Our Planet Great Again". This is a program initiated by French president Emmanuel Macron to attract scientists from the US and other countries to conduct research in France. The proposal was submitted in late October. The research will be conducted at the host laboratory LISA (Laboratoire Inter-university des Systems Atmospherique) with the goal to better understand the interaction of urban air pollution that mixes with emissions from nearby forest environments. The project will include a comprehensive field campaign using Paris as a case study, and will include laboratory studies of simulated atmospheres in large chambers and analysis using computer models. The five year project will commence in mid-2018.
We are involved in a HOx instrumental comparison of ambient and synthetic mixtures of OH, HO2 and RO2 in a forested site on the campus of Indiana University. It involves laser-induced fluorescence (LIF), chemical ionization mass spectrometer (CIMS), and chemical amplifier (CA) instruments. This environment is similar to northern Michigan (high isoprene with relatively low NOx), but with much higher temperature and humidity.
Our most recent field campaign was in northern Michigan at the PROPHET site that is part of the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS), and was called PROPHET-AMOS (2016). The goals of the experiment included assessing the performance of OH instruments in high biogenic VOC - low NOx environments.
Two other recent studies, NOMADSS (2013) and FRAPPE (2014), involved measuring the composition of the troposphere for a variety of atmospheric conditions in order to improve understanding of several atmospheric processes. Both of these campaigns combined airborne measurements with ground based ones to connect processes at the surface with those aloft. Our instrument was staged on the NSF/NCAR C-130 research aircraft. This is a platform on which we have participated in many previous studies (e.g. TOPSE, MIRAGE, and PASE).


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Vancouver Control 4 Dealer: Is Control 4 Right For Your Home Or Business?
West Coast Audio Video Gallery is a Vancouver Dealer of Control 4.
Control 4 is an affordable residential and commercial automation solution that can make your home or business smarter and more efficient. With control 4 your home's audio, video, lighting, security, thermostat and even jacuzzi can be controlled from a keypad or touch screen device. However, there are many home automation choices on the market, so how do you know if Control 4 is the right solution for your home or business? Here is some friendly advice that will hopefully clear the confusion.
The three most popular manufacturers in the automation industry are Crestron, Savant, and Control 4.
Crestron has been around for 40 plus years and is the grandfather of the "smart home" automation industry. Crestron systems are usually used for large-scale homes that are 5,000 square feet or more, Crestron is also used for government buildings, educational facilities, and medium to large corporate buildings.
Savant is similar to Crestron in price, but lacks the 40 plus years of experience in the market. They offer a solution unlike Crestron that is slightly easier to program for projects that do not require a lot of customization. Savant hardware is comprised of a Mac Mini making many to believe that Savant is the Apple of smart home automation. They also use exclusively Apple products for control like the iPod touch, iPhone, or iPad. However, these control devices and apps are also available for any other control system you may choose to use.
Control 4 was born on the philosophy that you do not need to be living the life of luxury to enjoy smart home automation. The Control 4 market targets homes and businesses that are less than 5,000 square feet and do not require a lot of customization. The control 4 programing is extremely simple to configure compared to Crestron or Savant. This ready to go out of the box approach Control 4 adopted creates huge savings for consumers looking to save money on expensive programming costs.
Our team here at West Coast Audio Video Gallery uses Control 4 frequently to make homeowners lives easier while not breaking their bank when doing so. Control 4 is not the right solution for every project, but if you have a small to medium sized home or business, it may be the right solution for you.
How Can Digital Signage Help Your Business? 5 Great Features
Even as a group who has spent most of their lives as avid technology enthusiast, we still occasionally get amazed at just how far we've come in the last couple decades. When we were kids, signs were made of nothing but metal, plastic, or neon, and the closest they came to being interactive was sending some teenager up on a ladder to update how many burgers McDonald's has served this week.
Now, we have digital signage, which improves on traditional signs in practically every way. Yes, these signs do cost more up-front, but they offer impressive benefits far beyond traditional signage. Whether we're talking modern LED display boards or more traditional flat-screen monitors, a digital sign can be a tremendous boost to your business.
Five Great Features of Digital Signage
- Visual Impact. Whether you're talking about a bright, high-resolution, animated LED display, or a wall of monitors taking up one wall of your establishment, digital signage gets eyeballs fast. No other form of sign is as easily seen or as eye-catching as a digital sign, especially one playing video, and that means more people walking in your door.
- Interactive ordering systems. Forward-looking cafes and restaurants have been experimenting with interactive digital menus, which both cuts down on labor and makes the process more entertaining for customers. This digital signage concept could be expanded to virtually any on-demand sales product.
- Infinite message potential. Unlike a traditional sign, digital signage can be updated with any message you want, at any time of day, as many times a day as you need. All it takes is a couple minutes at a computer to completely redesign the board and send a new message to it. This vastly increases the number of people you can reach out to in a day.
- Engage customers. Why use standard books and brochures? A phalanx of touchscreen-based tablet PCs makes a great display section that's fun for customers to play with to boot.
- Get social! Digital signage can easily be hooked into social services such as Facebook and Twitter. You could display Facebook wall posts, or keep up live Twitter conversations with visitors on a large display. Digital signage is a perfect way of bringing social media into your business.
At West Coast Audio Video, we have installed screens, av equipment, cabling, for Samsung, Blenz, Wireless Wave, TBooth and have handled the logistics and planning of over 500 stores across Canada!
Key Takeaway: No matter what sort of business you're in, digital signage makes an impact on your customers and helps make your location a place people want to visit.


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Mignon Clyburn Exiting FCC
FCC commissioner Mignon Clyburn said at the agency's public hearing Tuesday (April 17) that she is exiting the FCC.
Clyburn said the public meeting would be her last at the agency. She said she had done her best, met incredible people, and had had a chance to make a difference for people who did not know the government was there to serve them.
Clyburn served as interim chair of the FCC, becoming the first woman to chair the agency.
Fellow Democrat Jessica Rosenworcel called Clyburn a partner in the public interest, and promised to carry on her fights.
FCC chair Ajit Pai said Clyburn had "chaired with distinction and served with honor."
Clyburn said she did not have her future path "laid out."
According to sources on the Hill and off it, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has proposed FCC Enforcement Bureau official Geoffrey Starks to succeed Clyburn as Democratic FCC Commissioner.
Republicans are also trying to get a second, full-five-year term for Republican Commissioner Brendan Carr, who was only confirmed to fill the unexpired term of former FCC chair Tom Wheeler, and they will need to pair Carr up with a Democrat if past is prologue.
Clyburn could have served until the end of the next Congress after her term ended--which it did last June--or until a successor was seated.
The exits of chief of staff David Grossman and wireline legal advisor Claude Aiken had signaled to many that Clyburn's tenure was drawing to a close.
Pai said that while they had not always agreed--something of an understatement of late--Clyburn had always been willing to come to the table, put her cards on it, and try to find common ground.
He pointed out that, appropriately, at her last meeting there were unanimous votes on six of the seven items.
Clyburn joined the commission in 2009 and was renominated and confirmed for a second term in 2013. She served briefly as chairman after the exit of Julius Genachowski and before Tom Wheeler could be confirmed.
Before joining the FCC, Clyburn was a member of the South Carolina Public Service Commission (PSC) and, before that, published her familyh-founded newspaper, Charleston's Coastal Times.


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In some situations the allegation of a criminal act on its own is enough to throw someone's life into a tailspin. This is especially true in rape, referred to in New Jersey as "sexual assault." This is the type of allegation that can lead to ostracization and serious damage to one's personal relationships and standing in the community.
Under the law a suspect is innocent until proven guilty, the burden is on the state prosecutor to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. But many who have been accused are not viewed as innocent until they are proclaimed not guilty by the court. With this tremendous power placed in the hands of the criminal justice system, one would hope that we had come up with an error free system of determining the innocence or guilt a suspect, particularly one accused of a sex offense. Unfortunately, that is not the case.
The criminal justice system can make errors, particularly if the constitutional rights of the suspect are not vigorously defended. Our protections from unreasonable search and seizure and self incrimination are important underpinnings of justice system. But despite these explicit protections in the Constitution, these rights are too often impinged upon.
IN recent years the availability of DNA analysis of evidence has called many prior convictions into question. Many individuals at both the state and federal level have been accused of crimes only later to be exonerated by this type of evidence. It is troubling to consider that without the technological advances that have facilitated this type of evidence many of these people would have faced countless more years behind bars.
Source: MPR News, "Is the criminal justice system as good as you think it is?" John Radsan, May 10, 2012


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Venus Marina Acqua di Firenze
Venus Marina is a perfume by Acqua di Firenze for women. The release year is unknown. It is still in production.
Fragrance Notes
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|Bergamot, Elemi resin, Marine notes
|Heart Notes
|Rose, Broom, Lavender, Myrtle, Violet, Cornflower, Buttercup, Orchid
|Base Notes
|Aleppo pine, Cedarwood, Musk
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3 (More) Ways To Improve Your Container Orchestration
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Where is Mobile Cloud in the Cloud Technology Market?
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