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Sorry for the long break. I've been on business trips to Jebusland for 3 of the last 7 weeks, malady about it and had a vacation in the middle, angina and very busy even when here. Although I'm still busy, order I at least have a minute (not enough time to grab any good pictures; since my google-fu was too weak to get something quickly).
I took the family on a short vacation to visit family in State College, home of Penn State (where I went to school and spent the first 9 years of my life – my grandmother still lives in the same neighborhood as the Paternos). On this trip, since my wife is still recovering from Achilles surgery, we didn't spend much time walking through campus as we normally would – we instead spent our time driving around the edges of campus. This was an interesting contrast for me, since I spend quite a bit of time driving around the edge of another major university's campus right here in Austin. Let's compare.
Penn State:
There's a signed and marked bike route which starts on the north end of campus (which is bounded by the old residential neighborhood in which my grandmother lives). This bike route says "Campus and Downtown". It was added shortly before my college years but has been improved since then on each end and consists mainly of off-street paths (sharrows on the street in the neighborhood north of campus, although done poorly). Automobile traffic can still enter the campus from the north in several places, but is then shunted off to the corners – you can no longer go completely through campus from north to south by automobile. Pedestrian accomodations on this side of campus haven't changed for decades – a pleasant cool walk under tons and tons of trees.
On the south side of campus is the downtown area – the area most analogous to The Drag; fronting College Avenue, part of a one-way couplet which carries State Route 26 through the area (other half is two blocks away, called Beaver Avenue). College Avenue has two through lanes of traffic. Shops line the road at a pleasingly short pedestrian-oriented setback, except for a few places (one a church, one a surface parking lot). Pedestrians, counting both sides of the street, get a bit more space than do cars – and cars have to stop almost every block at a traffic light. The speed limit here is 25; you can rarely go that fast. There is plenty of on-street parking. Again, there's places where cars can penetrate campus a bit, but they can't go through campus this direction. Bicycle access from the south comes from a major bike route (with bike lanes that end short of campus) on Garner St. – which then allows bicyclists to continue while motorists have to exit by turning a corner towards the stadium. Two images of the corner of Allen and College from different angles:
East and west at Penn State aren't as important – the west side fronts US 322 Business (and a major automobile access point was closed; a classroom building now spans the whole old highway!). The east side is primarily for access to sports facilities and the agricultural areas. Ped access from the west is mediocre unless you feel like going through that classroom building, but not very important if you don't since there's not much other reason to be over there. Access from the east is the main future area for improvement – although it's still of a caliber that we would kill for here in Austin; with 2-lane roadways and 30-35 mph speed limits; traffic signals everywhere pedestrians go in reasonable numbers; etc.
Penn State and the town of State College have made it inviting to walk to and through campus, and have made it at pleasant as possible to bike there. Some students still drive, of course, but most cars are warehoused most of the time.
On UT's west side, Guadalupe is a wide choking monstrosity (4 car lanes with 2 bike lanes – one of which functions pretty well and the other of which was a good attempt that fails in practice due to bad driver behavior). On-street parking exists but is rather difficult to use for its intended purpose; but the merchants will still defend it tooth and nail. Despite having even more students living across this road that need to walk to UT than the analogous group at Penn State, there are fewer pedestrian crossings and they are far less attractive; and there is no bicycle access from the west that indicates any desire at all to promoting this mode of transportation. Although you can't completely get through campus from west to east, you can get a lot farther in than you can at Penn State, and the pedestrian environment suffers for it. The city won't put any more traffic signals on Guadalupe even though there's thousands of pedestrians; and the built environment on Guadalupe is ghastly, with far too much surface parking and far too little in the way of street trees. This shot is about as good as it gets on Guadalupe:
(note: reformatted in 2015 and noticed the shot from 2008 is no longer available. Try this streetview for a representative sample).
On the east side of campus, there's I-35. You'd think this would be much worse than the Guadalupe side for everybody, but at least bicyclists can use Manor Road, which is pretty civilized (better than anything on the west side). Pedestrians are pretty much screwed – noisy, stinky, and hot is no way to walk through life, son.
UT's north side is similarly ghastly. A road clearly designed for high-speed motor vehicle traffic and then gruesomely underposted at 30 mph; way too wide and lots of surface parking. For pedestrians, this edge of campus sucks – for cyclists, it's OK to penetrate, but then UT destroyed through access for cyclists by turning Speedway into UT's underwhelming idea of a pedestrian mall (hint: this is what one really looks like). I could write a whole post on that (and may someday), but the short version is that years ago, UT came to our commission (UTC) with a master plan that crowed about how much they were promoting cycling, yet the only actual change from current conditions was destroying the only good cycling route to and through campus. Yeah, they put up showers and lockers – but that's not going to help if the route TO the showers and lockers is awful enough, and it is. You'll get a lot of cyclists at almost any university just because a lot of students won't have cars and because parking isn't free and plentiful, but if you really want to take it to the next level, I'm pretty confident that eliminating your one good bike route isn't the way to go about it.
Since I went to Penn State (1989-1992), access for pedestrians and bicyclists has actually gradually improved, even though it already was much better than UT, and the campus has become more and more livable. More people walk and bike; fewer people drive; and it's a more enjoyable place than it was before. Since I moved to Austin (1996), the environment for pedestrians and bicyclists travelling to and through UT has actually gotten worse – they're still coasting on the fact that a lot of the area was developed before everybody had a car. Almost every decision they have made since then has been hostile to bicyclists and at least indifferent to pedestrians. As a result, a much larger proportion of students in the area have cars that they use much more often. (Just comparing near-campus-but-off-campus residents here). The recent long-overdue developments in West Campus are a start, but the built environment on the edge of campus has to dramatically change for UT to be anything more than laughable compared to other major college campuses' interfaces with business districts.
Bonus coverage: The area I was staying in in Huntsville, AL is right next to the 'campus' for Alabama-Huntsville. The least said about that, the better – the area in general is like US 183 before the freeway upgrades, except even uglier (if that's possible); and their campus has literally nowhere to walk to – my guess is that every student there has a car, even though the place is clearly not a commuter school.
A note I just sent to the morning show guys at KLBJ after I got to work late from the car dealer:
Ed and Mark, grip
I heard your conversation with Lamar Smith while coming late to work today from the car dealer. While his figure of 20% for ANWR's possible increase to US oil production is higher than anything I've ever seen anybody say, that's not the most relevant thing: the more important point is that oil is priced on the world market (it's 'fungible'), so it doesn't matter whether the US produces 1% or 99% as much oil as we consume; what matters is the world supply and demand (unless we were to nationalize our oil industry and force 'our' oil to be sold to us at a discount).
I wrote a short post on this a few weeks ago; finding it ironic that the party that has stood for supposed economic literacy and against nationalization is proposing a plan that can only work if you ignore one or both. Here's the link: http://mdahmus.monkeysystems.com/blog/archives/000515.html
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On Thursday afternoon Tim Farrell was among the 400 firefighters who beat back the flames that engulfed the Boardwalks of Seaside Park and Seaside Heights in New Jersey. Eleven months after losing his family home to Hurricane Sandy the Jersey Shore resident's heart dropped when he saw his new home go up in flames.
Farrell (42) was one of the first firefighters on the scene at the fire, believed to have started at Kohr's Frozen Custard store, on Thursday at about 2pm.
"It was a hot fire right from the start. Not only did we have fire in front of us, we had fire behind us. It was a tough one."
He stayed on the scene for 24-hours battling the biggest fire he had faced. He admitted that, "I kind of took a knee at one point. I kind of took it all into perspective."
This has been a tough year for the Farrell family. In October last year Farrell's home was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy. The firefighter and his son stayed with family for four months and eventually Farrell, his girlfriend, and his son moved to another home at Seaside Heights.
On Thursday Farrell said that "the worst thing that ever could happen to a firefighter" happened to him.
He told CBS, "I got a call on my radio. When we got a block away from it, the crew and myself knew it was mine. First thing I saw was flames coming out of the windows and my heart dropped."
His home was destroyed as was the boardwalk where he had grown up.
The CBS reporter asked him in the report below how much more he can take. He said, "I really don't know. That's a good question. It's been a hell of a year. I'm hoping that this is it. I am certainly hoping that this is it."
Despite everything Seaside Heights and his family have been through Farrell said, "I think it is going to come back better than ever. I really do."
Most importantly he said he plans to make sure that Jersey Shore remains home for his family.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has pledged $15 million in state aid to help rebuild the area. The fire destroyed 32 oceanfront businesses and caused $2 million in damage to the boardwalk alone.
Arson investigators continue to sift through a wasteland of ash, hunting for clues to determine what sparked the "suspicious" blaze, reports the New York Post.
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Pearl Jam Raise $11 Million to End Youth Homelessness
Late last month, Pearl Jam announced in a press conference that they were working with local groups on an initiative to end youth homelessness in and around Seattle by 2020 and they urged area businesses to contribute to the struggle. It didn't take long for the community to respond, raising about $11 million for the cause, which was inspired by the band's Home Shows concerts August 8 and August 10.
"A huge thank you to the more than 170 businesses — both big and small — philanthropic partners, and individuals that have committed nearly $11 million to fight homelessness," wrote the band on PearlJam.com. "Even more important is seeing our community and fans rally around this effort. Tens of thousands of you have taken action by signing up for The Home Shows mailing list, watching stories of our neighbors with lived experience with homelessness, volunteering, getting registered to vote - and voting."
In addition to thanking those who have shown interest in The Home Shows, Pearl Jam urged fans to get personally involved in the fight. "You have more influence than you think—and now is the time to use it," wrote the band. "Email your elected officials and let them know what you want from them. Ask your employers what they're doing on this issue. Support businesses committed to ending homelessness. Go out of your way to say 'Hello' and 'How can I help?' when you see a neighbor experiencing homelessness. Then, keep learning, donating, volunteering, paying attention and believing. The more than 12,000 people living on the streets of our city need us to."
Pearl Jam recently wrapped a run of U.S. shows at baseball parks. The only show remaining on their 2018 schedule comes Dec. 2 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The group is expected to continue working toward their next album in 2019.
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I continue to be disturbed by the number of atheits (and some not-so-atheists) seem to think that we can derive moral principles from evolutionary facts -- an idea that that has absolutely no merit whatsoever.
Specifically, I am referring to the idea that the apparent wrongness of such things as murder or rape can be derived from the fact that we have an evolved disposition to view murder and rape as wrong. According to this theory, the survival of our species has been improved by our ability to cooperate with each other. To foster cooperation, evolution has given us a disposition to treat each other with a certain degree of kindness and cooperation, and a genetic aversion to murder and rape. Our current cultural practice of viewing murder and rape as "immoral" is simply a physical manifestation of these evolved characteristics.
It's a nice story. However, it makes no sense.
I have written about this idea a couple of times by quickly skimming a long list of objections to this idea. This time, I would like to look fewer arguments, but examine each in a bit more detail.
Let us imagine that our evolution took a different course. Let us say that a tribe of pre-humans evolved a disposition to kill others who did not look like them. Whenever they came across a different pre-human tribe, if that tribe looked like them, they expressed a genetic disposition toward favoritism. Whenever they came across a pre-human tribe that looked different, they reacted with a genetic disposition to slaughter them and to move "looks-like-me" families into the territory of those who "looks-not-like-me."
I now have a nice story of evolution giving us a particular genetic trait. Could this type of story create a situation in which racial genocide was permissible? Perhaps even obligatory?
Let's imagine that these genetic traits caused "looks-like-mes" to also react with hostility to any other "looks-like-me" who treated "looks-not-like-mes" with any type of affection or even tolerance. This gene made "looks-like-mes" treat other "looks-like--mes" who did not participate in these genocidal wars, or who tried to protect "looks-not-like-mes" just as they would treat "looks-not-like-mes" and added them to the list of beings to be wiped out, leaving more resources for the "looks-like-mes" that have the "hates-all-looks-not-like-mes" gene.
Those who assert that morality can be derived from evolution, it would seem, would have to conclude that "looks-not-like-mes" and "helpers-of-looks-not-like-mes" both deserve to die.
This connection here is important. There is no reasonable doubt that humans evolved. There is no reasonable doubt that our desires have been molded by evolution. Evolution has given us a strong disposition to desire sex, to eat the types of food that helped our ancestors to survive, and to avoid that which causes us pain. Evolution might have given us dispositions towards cooperation and kindness towards others. These evolved desires explain our actions.
However, for any type of evolutionary ethics to make sense, these evolved characteristics must also justify our actions. Morality is not concerned with simply explaining the fact that the are disposed towards a certain type of behavior towards murderers and rapists. Morality is concerned with justifying that action.
As the story about the "looks-like-mes" illustrates, a certain evolutionary story may explain a disposition to wipe out "looks-not-like-mes." However, in order to say that morality can be grounded on ethics, one has to be able to say that these dispositions can justify the behavior, and not just explain it.
Indeed, every single intentional action that any person engages in -- including rape and murder -- has an explanation. It is not the case that every intentional action that any person engages in has a moral justification. The question that ethicists need to answer is, "How do we distinguish between intentional actions that have an explanation only, and those that have an explanation and a moral justification."
The evolutionary ethicist has not given us an answer to this question.
I have read a few scientific articles involving brain scans on people who are then tasked to make moral evaluations. The scientists attempt to map what goes on in the brain when these decisions are made. Some people who comment on these articles state that these scientists are studying morality. Those who say this are making a category mistake.
We could create a similar study in which we asked people to draw logical conclusions. They are given premises and then asked which conclusions follow from those premises. Every time an individual completes the task, we are going to get a brain-scan image of what went on in that task. However, we will have an image regardless of whether or not the reasoning that the subject went through was valid or invalid.
We cannot use the brain scans to determine the validity or invalidity of logical syllogisms. Similarly, we cannot use brain scans to determine the validity or invalidity of moral reasoning. We can use these techniques to understand what people do, but we cannot use these techniques to draw conclusions about what people should do - about how to justify the conclusions that they reach, either as a product of logical or of moral reasoning.
I have argued elsewhere that I think that there is little difference between evolutionary ethics and religious ethics. Both of them appeal to an outside authority that does not exist to create invalid inferences to justify their favorite moral conclusions. Individuals in both groups are equally likely to use invalid inferences from false premises to justify personal preferences that cannot be morally justified.
Against the religious ethicist, I say that if you attempt to do harm to me, you cannot justify that harm by appeal to a deity or to faith. If we allow faith to be counted as a justification for actions, then the 9/11 attacks and every terrorist bombing was justified.
Against the evolutionary ethicist, I say that having a particular genetic makeup may explain why you come after me with an intention to do harm to me. However, your genetic makeup can never support the conclusion that I deserve to be harmed. It may explain your actions, but you need to look elsewhere to justify it.
When it comes to moral justification, we are not going to find our answers in religious faith, nor are we going to find it in evolved sentiments.
Where are we going to find it?
My argument is that we find it in the relationship between malleable desires and all other desires regardless of whose they are.
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- Number of referring domains linking to the page. Compare it with your competitors on the SERP to check if you have enough backlinks to potentially rank for your target keyword.
- For the redirect recommendation, we now show other pages of your site linking to the current one so that you can swap out any internal links pointing to the redirect.
And as always, we did a bunch of smaller improvements and bug fixes.
Release date: April 26th, 2022
The new Ahrefs SEO v.0.9.7 release includes several small but long-awaited improvements:
- Content audit data management has become more flexible. You can now choose to either keep or delete all audit data from your website's database when you uninstall the plugin.
- Sometimes, WordPress sites have different settings and plugins installed that affect non-canonical, noindex and redirect tags on pages. Because of that, the Ahrefs SEO plugin can incorrectly assign those statuses to pages on occasion and automatically exclude them from the audit. Now, you can manually include such articles in your audits and reset their assigned status.
- The Select target keyword modal design was improved. It now fits better in smaller displays.
- And as always, we did a bunch of other small improvements and bug fixes.
Release date: March 22nd, 2022
With the new Ahrefs SEO 0.9.6 release, you can now select a specific country in your plugin settings to make your content audit results more accurate.
Before, we always showed the average position for target keywords across all countries. So if a website did business in the UK and ranked well there, but ranked pretty low in average position worldwide, we reported that their content was performing poorly. Now, they can select "UK" in the plugin settings and see that they're performing well in their country of choice.
Release date: March 9th, 2022
The new Ahrefs SEO 0.9.5 release is dedicated to one big feature: support for user roles. If there are several people working on articles for your website, they can now all access the Content audit report and monitor the performance of their articles. Here's how it works:
- Authors now have access to the results of content audits and can modify their articles.
- In addition to that, Editors can run new content audits, export content audit reports, and customize the scope of audits.
- Admins have full access to plugin settings, can change the audit schedule, and manage connected Google and Ahrefs accounts.
Release date: February 14th, 2022
The new Ahrefs SEO 0.9.4 release adds two long-requested features:
- Export of the Content audit report. Now you can export to a CSV file all metrics for all analyzed articles or only for articles with a selected performance status.
- Include tag pages in audit. If your tag pages are intended to rank in organic search, you can now include them in your content audit.
This release also contains a bunch of smaller improvements and bug fixes:
- Support for more specific GA and GSC configurations and improved auto-detection of the best profiles.
- Updated UI for the Scope of audit settings.
- Resolved some incompatibility with the Redirection plugin.
- Improved handling of the plugin and website configuration errors.
- Fixed a bug where pagination was reset after manually including or excluding an article.
Release date: January 18th, 2022
- Updated GA Admin API functions due to changes in the API.
Release date: January 13th, 2022
The new Ahrefs SEO 0.9.2 release brings a couple of new features:
- We now support the Redirection plugin. If you have redirects set there, we'll know and automatically exclude redirected articles from the audit.
- It's now possible to adjust the speed of scheduled audits. Look for the "Delay between requests" option in the plugin settings.
- And as usual, we did a bunch of smaller improvements and bug fixes.
Release date: December 2nd, 2021
The new Ahrefs SEO 0.9.1 release is focused on canonical tags:
- Identifying non-canonical posts. We now recognize non-canonical posts and automatically exclude them from the audit. We support canonical tags set in Yoast, RankMath, AIOSEO and in WordPress itself.
- Support for the primary category set in Yoast. Previously, if your post fell under multiple categories and you included a category in your URL permalinks, we might not have correctly identified the primary category set in Yoast and hence analyzed an incorrect URL. This has been fixed.
Other improvements:
- Audit progress indication. This is now more responsive and smoother. In the past, it might have seemed like the audit was stuck, especially on larger websites. But now, the real-time audit completion percentages let you know that all is going well.
- Design and description of suggested actions. The reasons why we put a post in a particular category now look clearer and more informative.
- Some other small bug fixes and improvements.
Release date: November 10th, 2021
With the new Ahrefs SEO 0.9.0 release, you can now import target keywords from AIOSEO in addition to the two plugins we already support: Yoast and RankMath.
We also improved the handling and reporting of misconfiguration and server errors during DB upgrades, plus fixed a bunch of smaller bugs.


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PRP gives more youthful, smoother, and firmer skin. PRP is a bio-rejuvenating cell technique that, through growth factors in platelets in our blood, stimulates the skin's cell rejuvenation, collagen production, and elastic fibers.
◆ PRP Tube can be widely used in many medical fields like Aesthetic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Dermatology, Orthopedics, and Sports Medicine, Oral Surgery, Veterinary, etc.
◆ The tubes include separating gel. Sterilized.
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Rechercher une page de manuel
Langue: en
Version: July 1996 (debian - 07/07/09)
Section: 5 (Format de fichier)
hdf - Hierarchical Data Format librarySYNOPSIS
-lmfhdf -ldf -ljpeg -lz{HDFLIBDIR}/libmfhdf.a {HDFLIBDIR}/libdf.a {HDFLIBDIR}/libjpeg.a {HDFLIBDIR}/libz.a
HDF is a multi-object file format that facilitates the transfer of various types of scientific data between machines and operating systems. Machines currently supported include the Cray, HP, Vax, Sun, IBM RS/6000, Silicon Graphics, Macintosh, and IBM PC computers. HDF allows self-definitions of data content and easy extensibility for future enhancements or compatibility with other standard formats. HDF includes Fortran and C calling interfaces,and utilities to prepare raw image of data files or for use with other NCSA software. The HDF library contains interfaces for storing and retrieving compressed or uncompressed 8-bit and 24-bit raster images with palettes, n-Dimensional scientific datasets and binary tables. An interface is also included that allows arbitray grouping of other HDF objects.HDF Raster Images
HDF supports the storing of both 8-bit and 24-bit raster images. As well as storing information about the dimensions and palette of a raster image, HDF supports raster image compression. In previous versions of HDF, Run-length encoding and Imcomp compression were both supported. With HDF> 3.3 JPEG compression is also available.HDF Scientific Data Sets
Scientific Data Sets (SDSs) are useful for storing n-Dimensional gridded data. The actual data in the dataset can be of any of the "standard" number types: 8, 16 and 32bit signed and unsigned integers and 32 and 64bit floating point values. In addition, a certain amount of meta-data can be stored with an SDS including:o The coordinate system to use when interpreting or displaying the data. o Scales to be used for each dimension. o Labels for each dimension and the dataset as a whole. o Units for each dimension and the data. o The valid max and min values for the data. o Calibration information for the data. o Fill or missing value information. o Ability of have more than one file open at a time. o A more general framework for meta-data within the SDS data-model (allowing 'name = value' styel meta-data). o Support for an "unlimited dimension" in the SDS data-model, making it possible to append planes to an array along one dimension.
HDF Annotations
Any object in an HDF file can have annotations associated with it. There are a number of types of annotations:o Labels are assumed to be short strings giving the "name" of a data object. o Descriptions are longer text segments that are useful for giving more indepth information about a data object o File annotations are assumed to apply to all of the objects in a single file.
HDF Vset Interfaces
The Vset module provides interfaces to two basic HDF building blocks. Vgroups are generic grouping elements allowing a user to associate related objects within an HDF file. As Vgroups can contain other Vgroups, it is possible to build a hierarchical file. Vdatas are data structures made up of fields and records. Data is organized into 'fields' within each Vdata. Each field is identified by a unique 'fieldname'. The type of each field may be any of the basic number types that HDF supports. Fields of different types may exist within the same Vdata.By combining Vdatas in Vgroups it is possible to represent higher level data constructs: mesh data, multi-variate datasets, sparse matrices, finite-element data, spreadsheets, splines, non-Cartesian coordinate data, etc.
HDF > 3.3 and netCDF
HDF > 3.3 merges in the netCDF library produced by Unidata. The full netCDF library is supported as is a new "multi-file" SDS interface. Both of these interfaces can read old netCDF files and HDF files transparently.EXAMPLES
All HDF routines require the header "hdf.h" to be included in the C source file. If using the SDS routines the header "mfhdf.h" should be included instead in in the C source file. Fortran programs should use "dffunc.inc" and "hdf.inc".To compile a program that makes HDF calls on most Unix platforms.
HDFINC = /usr/include/hdf (FORTRAN): f77 myprog.f -I{HDFINC} -o myprog -lmfhdf -ldf -ljpeg -lz (C): cc myprog.c -I{HDFINC} -o myprog -lmfhdf -ldf -ljpeg -lz
The HDF WWW page is located at http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/
For the vast majority of users, the "Users Guide" documents and the "Reference" manuals should be sufficient.
You may download the documentation via ftp on NCSA's anonymous ftp server. (ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu:/HDF). On anonymous ftp there the documentation is available in Postscript, PDF and MIF.
NCSA Software Development DivisionHierarchical Data Format Group
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605 E. Springfield Ave.
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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (UI), NATIONAL CENTER FOR SUPERCOMPUTING APPLICATIONS (NCSA), Software Distribution Policy for Public Domain SoftwareNCSA HDF Version 4.1 source code and documentation are in the public domain, available without fee for education, research, non-commercial and commercial purposes. Users may distribute the binary or source code to third parties provided that this statement appears on all copies and that no charge is made for such copies.
UI MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SUITABILITY OF THE SOFTWARE FOR ANY PURPOSE. IT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY. THE UI SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES SUFFERED BY THE USER OF THIS SOFTWARE. The software may have been developed under agreements between the UI and the Federal Government which entitle the Government to certain rights.
We ask, but do not require that the following message be include in all derived works:
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By copying this program, you, the user, agree to abide by the conditions and understandings with respect to any software which is marked with a public domain notice.
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Portions of this software were developed by the Unidata Program at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, specifically the NETCDF distribution used.
This product also includes software developed by the Independent JPEG Group, specifically the IJPEG library libjpeg.a.
This product also includes software developed by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler , specifically the ZLIB library libz.a.
This product includes software developed by the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors.
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La Specola Anatomical Collection
The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.
The largest and best-known wax anatomical collection, La Specola is part of the Museum of Natural History in Florence and also houses some wonderful taxidermy, including now extinct specimens and a very questionable-looking hippopotamus.
La Specola is the oldest public museum in Europe, having started as the personal collection of the Medici family. It was opened to the public in 1775. Anyone could attend as long as they "looked clean." The wax anatomical models were a huge hit, and the museum was attended by luminaries such as Goethe (who later wrote The Sorrows of Young Werther) and Emperor Leopold who funded the museum.
Of special interest are the wax anatomical Venuses, wax models of naked women posed in old-fashioned semi-erotic poses, but with their rib cages and stomachs pulled open to the world. These gutted female forms were a favorite of the Marquis de Sade.
Clemente Susini's wax models, painstaking to produce and incredibly fragile, can be seen in only a few other locations throughout the world, including the Semmelweis Museum in Budapest, and the Josephinum in Vienna, and the Wax Anatomy Museum at University of Cagliari.
The overlooked collection is surprisingly empty in the tourist-packed Florence. While there, you can also check out its zoological collection.
Update as of September 2019: The La Specola Museum is closed for refurbishment work and is expected to reopen in the next 18 months.
Update as of November 2023: The La Specola Museum is now scheduled to reopen on 21st of February 2024.
Know Before You Go
The anatomical collection is now only viewable by guided tour. Call the museum to reserve a place or book a private group tour.


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P11Ds for 2020/21 - COVID19 considerations
Newsletter issue - July 2021
The P11D filing deadline for 2020/21 is 6 July 2021. Usually, this is a routine exercise in most cases. However, due to COVID19, some additional consideration may be required this time round. HMRC have published guidance regarding certain items that need some thought because of the pandemic.
COVID19 testing
Any COVID19 tests provided by the government as part of its national testing scheme, for example for healthcare workers and other frontline staff, are not treated as a benefit in kind.
For other employers, the cost of providing antigen testing kits outside the national testing scheme is not a benefit in kind. There is also no benefit in kind where the employer provides money to an employee in order to obtain a test.
Personal protective equipment (PPE)
Where a risk assessment shows that PPE is required for an employee to carry out their duties (e.g. care workers), an employer is required to provide this to the employees free of charge. This is not a benefit in kind. If the employer is unable to procure the PPE directly, there is an obligation to reimburse the cost of purchasing the PPE to employees who purchase it directly. Again, this is not a benefit in kind.
Living accommodation
Unless a specific exemption applies, the cost of providing living accommodation for employees working a permanent workplace will be a taxable benefit, even if they are working at that permanent workplace because of COVID19. If the workplace is a temporary workplace the cost of providing the accommodation must still be reported, however the employee may be able to claim relief.
Where an employee is unable to return home due to COVID19, an employer may agree to pay for lodging expenses, e.g. hotel room on a temporary basis. These expenses will be taxable but may be covered by a PAYE settlement agreement if this is agreed by 5 July 2021.
Transport costs
Where an employer reimburse the cost of transport between the workplace and the employee's home it is treated as earnings and should be taxed via payroll. There are some circumstances where an exemption applies. For this to be the case, all four of the following conditions must be met:
- the employee has to work later than usual, and until at least 9pm
- this happens irregularly
- by the time the employee finishes work, either:
- public transport has stopped
- it would not be reasonable to expect them to use public transport
- the transport is by taxi or similar road transport.
An exemption may also apply if an employee is usually party to a car sharing arrangement, and this stops due to COVID19 and the employer reimburses the cost of transportation. In either case, the exemption can only cover a maximum of 60 journeys in any tax year.
Where an employer provides free or subsidised transport, this is taxable and should be reported through a PAYE settlement agreement.
Company cars
Where an employee is working from home, or has been furloughed, it may be the case that the employer has retained any company car. If this has been done in a way that the employee is physically prevented from using the car, e.g. the employer retains the keys or the contract has been terminated, the benefit in kind calculated for P11D purposes may need to be adjusted for the unavailable period.
This only applies if the car is genuinely not available to the employee for at least 30 consecutive days. It is not enough that the employee is simply instructed not to use the car, even if they can prove that they do not use it. The car must be physically unavailable for them to use. This can be the case even if the car remains at the employee's premises, as the return of keys will mean the car is unavailable.
Working from home
Separate guidance is available here regarding what expenses incurred relating to employees that are working from home due to COVID19.


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There are 36 million adults in the United States — nearly 15% of the adult population — who read at what are called "basic" and "below-basic" levels. While these individuals struggle to use the written word in work and life, as many as 3 in 4 of them have a smartphone. That's right in line with smartphone penetration in the overall population. Yet while the mobile EdTech market is booming, there are few adult literacy apps available, and even fewer focused on this segment of low-literate adults.
This gap represents a tremendous, yet untapped, market opportunity, and it's why the $7M Barbara Bush Foundation Adult Literacy XPRIZE presented by Dollar General Literacy Foundation is looking for the best and brightest software engineers and EdTech innovators to tackle this Grand Challenge.
Limited access to adult literacy education programs in the United States is due, in part, to a shortage of funding. But the lack of access is also structural. While existing adult literacy programs have been proven effective and have decades of research and design behind them, classes are often inconvenient for learners to attend and are not scalable. Essentially, adult education offers brick-and-mortar solutions in a digital world. With so many adults able to learn any time and anywhere, not investing heavily in technological innovation doesn't make sense.
The developer community has the unique set of skills and creativity to step up and revolutionize this industry. This is, after all, a classic Silicon Valley problem: find a market with distribution or process inefficiencies and design a technology to make existing products more scalable or cheaper to produce.
Demand is definitely there. A recent survey by Tyton Partners, an investment bank and strategy consulting firm specializing in education, found that only 27% of respondents who work in adult education reported that their programs make use of smartphone apps. This despite "most adult education program instructors [reporting] that they are comfortable using technology and believe they have the ability to leverage technology in a professional setting." As one respondent put it, "Adult education must be willing to paint the future with broad strokes that infuse digital formats to enhance learning."
It's not that the Adult Literacy community has not welcomed innovation, but it's been difficult at times for innovators to see the market potential. After all, there are other opportunities with more obvious and immediate payoffs.
However, when you put that 36 million learner figure into context, it becomes much more attractive; it's more than twice the size of the high school population and nearly five times the size of the pre-school aged population. It's a huge market with few players.
The Adult Literacy XPRIZE can act as an engine in driving market change. By incentivizing innovation in this often-neglected area, our goal is to attract the best teams from around the world to come up with new and engaging ways for adults to learn. As with other XPRIZE competitions, we hope to create a vibrant community of thinkers and doers who drive revolutionary innovation in a market that has barely seen incremental change in the past two decades.
Smartphones have already changed how most of us talk to each other. Let's have them change how the rest of us read.
Shlomy Kattan is Senior Director of the $7M Barbara Bush Foundation Adult Literacy XPRIZE presented by Dollar General Literacy Foundation.


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Getting here
Drottningholm Palace is on Lovön in Ekerö Municipality, approximately 10 km outside Stockholm.
Map Drottningholm Palace area (pdf) Pdf, 2.2 MB.
Visiting address. Drottningholm
Sale of tickets at the palace's entrance during regular opening hours or online here at the web site.
By public transport
Underground (T-bana) to Brommaplan, change to bus to Drottningholm.
Plan your trip at Public transportations External link., choose station/stop/address: Drottningholms Slott, Drottningholm
Note! It is not possible to buy bus tickets in any cash register in the Drottningholm area. The public store/kiosk 'Pressbyrån' is no longer situated at Drottningholm. To travel by bus to from the Drottningholm area, tickets can be purchased via SL's app SL - Travel Planner and tickets. External link, opens in new window.
By bicycle
Follow the bicycle path from the centre of Stockholm to Drottningholm.
By boat
Regular boat services in summertime depart from Stadshuskajen (the City Hall Quay) to Drottningholm. For departure times and fares, call Strömma Kanalbolaget at +46-8-587 140 00.
By car
E4/ Södertälje
Drive E4 to Stockholm. Follow route 275 to Vällingby. At Brommaplan, follow signs to Drottningholm.
When on E4, driving north, an alternative route is to follow signs to Ekerö at Hallunda. Take the car ferry to Ekerö. Follow Bryggavägen to Ekerö Centrum, turn right at route 261, the Drottningholm route.
E4/ Uppsala
Follow E4 south. Continue along route 279 until you past Kista. Turn right at route 275 to Vällingby. At Brommaplan, follow signs to Drottningholm.
E18/ Oslo
Drive E18 east to Stockholm. Follow route 275. At Brommaplan, follow signs to Drottningholm.
From Stockholm City
Follow route 275, the Drottningholm route (signs to Vällingby). At Brommaplan, follow signs to Drottningholm.
Visitor parking is available at Drottningholm and the Drottningholm Palace Theatre. Bus and wheelchair accessible parkings is also available. Additional parking is also available approximately 300m from the Palace at Karusellplan. Fr.o.m. 1 July 2018: Fee 15 SEK/hour, parking time maximum 6 hours. Bus and wheelchair accessible parkings are free of charge.


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The objective of the course is to provide students with an overall understanding of the law of equity with special emphasis on fiduciary obligations, trusts, equitable assignment of propoerty and equitable remedies. The course will consider the history of equity, basic principles which dominate its jurisprudence and the relevance of equity today; the nature of fiduciary obligations, recognised categories of fiduciaries and the extension of these categories in recent times, breach of fudiciary obligations, defences and remedies for the breach of fiduciary obligations; the requirements for express trusts, the liability of a third party to a breach of trust or fiduciary duty, and the remedies for breach of trust and fiduciary duty, including tracing. The course then shifts its focus to equity more generally by considering the equitable rules for assignment of property and the remedies of specific performance and injunctions.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
The objective of the course is to provide students with an overall understanding of the law of equity with special emphasis on fiduciary obligations, trusts, equitable assignment of property and equitable remedies.
By the end of the course, students should be able to:
- Explain and apply to a factual problem the law relating to fiduciary obligations, trusts (including express, resulting and constructive trusts), equitable remedies, tracing and equitable assignment. Such discussion should note any unresolved or ambiguous questions of law and propose a reasoned answer to the problem that acknowledges strengths and weaknesses of the arguments made;
- Analyse and predict how unresolved or ambiguous questions of equitable doctrine could be resolved by the courts;
- Describe, theorise and evaluate fundamental themes underlying and connecting the specific doctrines covered, including the relationship of equity to other parts of the law, and how equity has been, and can be, used as a vehicle for social change.
Indicative Assessment
The assessment for this course will include a compulsory mid-semester component (format TBA) [25%], a compulsory, end of semester formal exam [45%], a compulsory tutorial participation component [10%], and a reading reflections component [20%]. The indicated mark allocations are based upon the 2013 assessment scheme and are subject to change.
The ANU uses Turnitin to enhance student citation and referencing techniques, and to assess assignment submissions as a component of the University's approach to managing Academic Integrity. While the use of Turnitin is not mandatory, the ANU highly recommends Turnitin is used by both teaching staff and students. For additional information regarding Turnitin please visit the ANU Online website.
There will be three hours of lectures (or equivalent) each week. In addition, there will be weekly tutorials from Week 3 of the semester. Tutorial attendance is compulsory. Students are generally expected to devote at least 10 hours overall per week to this course.Requisite and Incompatibility
Prescribed Texts
G E Dal Pont, Equity and Trusts: Commentary and Materials, ( Lawbook Co). The current edition of this casebook as at June 2014 will be prescribed. If in doubt, check with the course convenor.
Preliminary Reading
Chapter 1, Sarah Worthington, Equity, Clarendon Law Series, (2nd ed, 2006); ANU Library E Reserve.
Assumed Knowledge
The course assumes knowledge of contract, property and legal history. The subject reinforces and deepens understanding of doctrines referred to in other courses such as Contract, Property, Corporations Law, Restitution Law and Family Law.
Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.
If you are a domestic graduate coursework or international student you will be required to pay tuition fees. Tuition fees are indexed annually. Further information for domestic and international students about tuition and other fees can be found at Fees.
- Student Contribution Band:
- 3
- Unit value:
- 6 units
If you are an undergraduate student and have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). You can find your student contribution amount for each course at Fees. Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.
Units | EFTSL |
6.00 | 0.12500 |
Course fees
- Domestic fee paying students
Year | Fee |
2018 | $4080 |
- International fee paying students
Year | Fee |
2018 | $5400 |
Offerings, Dates and Class Summary Links
ANU utilises MyTimetable to enable students to view the timetable for their enrolled courses, browse, then self-allocate to small teaching activities / tutorials so they can better plan their time. Find out more on the Timetable webpage.
Class summaries, if available, can be accessed by clicking on the View link for the relevant class number.
Second Semester
Class number | Class start date | Last day to enrol | Census date | Class end date | Mode Of Delivery | Class Summary |
8402 | 23 Jul 2018 | 30 Jul 2018 | 31 Aug 2018 | 26 Oct 2018 | In Person | N/A |


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It shouldn't have to be a struggle to find stylish hair accessories for the little girls with too much hair. Something that is easy to use, while not damaging their fragile hair, and of course, on trend. These little scrunchies are the perfect alternatives to tiny elastics, and much easier on the eyes. Now available in Five Pastel inspired colours that are sure to match any outfit. Made with the softest hand picked fabric and perfect for that mini on point top knot!
These beautiful mini scrunchies had been thoughtfully redesigned to fit women with short or thinner hair. Still maintaining the quality hold you've come to expect from the Queen but with less fabric, perfect for throwing your hair back in a ponytail without the breakage!
Care Instructions:
All scrunchies should be spot cleaned or hand washed with cold water, and laid flat to dry.


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Knife J
With its sleek and purely functional design, you will accomplish more with this knife than any other on the market today. This knife is 6.25 inches (16cm) long and made of high speed steel (HSS).
Each unique blade design is carefully handmade to exact specifications. The handle free design allows for obstructive free movement of the knife; allowing for greater freedom and expression for your design and creation.
HSS is a material usually used in the manufacture of machine tools bits and other cutters. It is often used in power saw blades and drill bits. It is superior to the older high carbon steel tools used extensively through the 1940's in that it can withstand higher temperatures without losing its temper (hardness). This property allows HSS to cut faster than high carbon steel, hence the name high speed steel Boris uses high speed steel (HSS) in the construction of his carving tools, not because it is one of the most popular grades of "tool steel" in the United States today, but because of its properties. Some types of steel are often harder but can be more brittle, while others can be too soft. HSS steel holds an edge and sharpens well without being too brittle or too soft—as a result of a high percentage of carbon with low levels of chromium and vanadium. His carving tools are heat-treated and the result is a tool with a hardness (Rc60-Rc62) that is great for woodcarving. Having a carving tool made of HSS, coupled with the correct method of sharpening, will ensure that this carving tool will be in your shop for many years.


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Jose Mourinho has accused his star player, Eden Hazard, of being unable to sacrifice himself fully for the team and bluntly told the Belgium winger that he was to blame for the crucial first goal in Chelsea's Champions League defeat by Atlético Madrid.
Hazard had appeared to criticise Mourinho's tactics immediately after the 3-1 semi-final loss when he was quoted on French television as saying that Chelsea "are not made to play football, we are good on the counter-attack". Hazard also added: "Often, I'm asked to do it all by myself and it's not easy."
Mourinho has since studied the transcript of the interview and, although he is adamant that the comments were not a criticism of his managerial style, he did deliver an extraordinarily candid appraisal of Hazard's contribution. Pointedly, in what was a rare and stinging critique of one of his team, Mourinho also claimed that Hazard's remarks could be expected "from players like him".
"It's normal because he's not the kind of player ready to sacrifice himself 100 per cent for the team and for his mates," said Mourinho. "Eden is the kind of player who is not so mentally ready to look back at his left-back and live his life for him. Normally you get this kind of comment from players like him: from players who can't resolve a problem like we had with the first goal. If you see the first goal, you understand where the mistake was and why we conceded.
"Against Atlético in Madrid, Willian played on the left and Ashley Cole was protected all game. At Liverpool, André Schürrle played on the left and a dangerous player like Glen Johnson was completely under control.
"I just say the perfect team at the top level cannot make this kind of mistake. Normally, if you go to half-time winning 1-0, the game is another game because Atlético have to chase the game and we, with stability, have conditions for more."
Mourinho dropped Hazard this season for returning late from a trip to Belgium after he lost his passport, while his preference for César Azpilicueta over Ashley Cole at left-back has clearly been influenced by his reservations about Hazard's team play. Mourinho's critique of Hazard will be of particular interest to Paris St-Germain, who are keen to take him back to France this summer.
PSG, though, are at risk of sanction for breaches of Uefa's Financial Fair Play regulations and would struggle to make such a major signing this summer. Mourinho is also adamant that Hazard will stay and stressed that he was not offended by the former Lille playmaker's remarks about Chelsea's style.
"I listen to the interview," said Mourinho. "There was nothing critical in what he said. There is nothing there." Despite agreeing that he was "not happy" with parts of Hazard's game, Mourinho did also highlight both his young age and considerable development. Hazard has been Chelsea's most creative player and, having been shortlisted for the PFA's Player of the Year award, was named Young Player of the Year last Sunday.
"Eden's had a good season, and an improvement," said Mourinho. "I think he was brought to a different level. Remember the performance at Man City, which was a very complete performance? I have no problem with him. He's a young guy. His evolution was fine. Does he still make mistakes? Of course he still makes mistakes. It was the first time in his life he'd played a Champions League semi-final. It's a career that's he's just started. Of course he understands."
Mourinho still fully expects either Manchester City or Liverpool to win the Premier League but, at the end of what would be his first full season in management without a trophy, he gave a detailed defence of his record.
"I'm going to tell you something, a bit of the history of my career," said Mourinho. "My career reached, at Inter, the maximum you can reach when you win everything. In 2010 I won everything. After that, this is the history of my career. In the first season [with Real Madrid] I won the cup against the best team in the world [Barcelona] and finished second in the league after the best team in the world. The next season I was league champion against the best team in the world, the champions of the records - 100 points, 126 goals, the record team - and we won that league.
"In the third season we won every match against the best team in the world, in the league, the Super Cup, the Cup. We lost the league, finished second, and we lost the Champions League semi-final by one goal. And the fourth season, which is this one, and probably the first where I don't win a single trophy, I go to the Champions League semi-final and fight for the title until the last. So these are the four bad seasons of my career."
Asked where it all went wrong, he added: "It went wrong by going year after year like nobody else did. You arrive at a level where finishing second is not good, losing a semi-final is not good. So I'm proud of that. Proudly guilty of that."


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The Saudi version of the disappearance and murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi seems to change every day or so. The latest is the Saudi government claim that the opposition journalist was killed in a "botched interrogation" at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Or was it a fist-fight? What is laughable is that the Saudi king has placed Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, a prime suspect, in charge of the investigation of Khashoggi's murder!
Though the official story keeps changing, what is unlikely to change is Washington's continued relationship with Saudi Arabia. It is a partnership that is in no way beneficial to Americans or the US national interest.
President Trump has promised "severe punishment" if the Saudi government is found to have been involved in Khashoggi's murder, but he also took off the table any reduction in arms sales to prop up the murderous Saudi war on Yemen. It's all about jobs, said President Trump. So the Saudi killing of thousands in Yemen can go on. Some murders are more important than others, obviously.
The killing of Khashoggi puts the Trump Administration is in a difficult situation. President Trump views Iran as designated enemy number one. Next month the US Administration intends to impose a new round of sanctions designed to make it impossible for Iran to sell its oil on the international market. To keep US fuel prices from spiking over this move Trump is relying on other countries, especially Saudi Arabia, to pump more and make up the difference. But the Saudis have threatened $400 a barrel oil if President Trump follows through with his promise of "severe punishment" over the killing of Khashoggi.
The Saudis have also threatened to look for friendship in Moscow or even Tehran if Washington insists on "punishing" the regime in Riyadh. For a super-power, the US doesn't seem to have many options.
What whole mess reveals is just how wise our Founding Fathers were to warn us against entangling alliances. For too many decades the US has been in an unhealthy relationship with the Saudi kingdom, providing the Saudis with a US security guarantee in exchange for "cheap" oil and the laundering of oil profits through the US military-industrial complex by the purchase of billions of dollars in weapons.
This entangling relationship with Saudi Arabia should end. It is unfortunate that the tens of thousands of civilians dead from Yemen to Syria due to Saudi aggression don't matter as much as the murder of one establishment journalist like Khashoggi, but as one Clinton flack once said, we should not let this current crisis go to waste.
This is not about demanding that the Saudis change their ways, reform their society on the lines of a liberal democracy, or allow more women to drive. The problem with our relationship with Saudi Arabia is not about Saudi Arabia. It is about us. The United States should not be in the business of selling security guarantees overseas to the highest bidder. We are constantly told that the US military guarantees our own safety and so it should be.
No, this is about returning to a foreign policy that seeks friendship and trade with all nations who seek the same, but that heeds the warning of George Washington in his Farewell Address that "a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils." If we care about the United States we must heed this warning. No more passionate attachments overseas. Friendship and trade over all.


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September 2004
For Immediate Release
Office of the Vice President
September 6, 2004
Vice President's Remarks at a Victory 2004 Labor Day Picnic
Clear Lake City Park
Clear Lake, Iowa
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Thank you.
AUDIENCE: Four more years! Four more years! Four more years!
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. Looks like Bush-Cheney country. (Applause.)
Well, Lynne has known me since I was 14, but she wouldn't go out with me until I was 17. And although we just celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary, it's still -- I'm on trial here. (Laughter.)
But I tell people the reason we got married is because Dwight Eisenhower got elected President. In 1952, I was living in Lincoln, Nebraska with my folks -- not far away. (Laughter.) And Dad worked for the Soil Conservation Service. Eisenhower got elected, reorganized the Agriculture Department. Dad got transferred to Casper, Wyoming. And that's where I met Lynne. We grew up together, went to high school together, and as I say, last week ago yesterday, celebrated our 40th anniversary. (Applause.)
MRS. CHENEY: Don't forget three granddaughters and a grandson.
THE VICE PRESIDENT: And three daughters and a grandson later.
MRS. CHENEY: Granddaughters.
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Three granddaughters and a grandson later. (Laughter.) I explained to a group the other night that if it hadn't been for Eisenhower's election victory, Lynne would have married somebody else. (Laughter.) And she said, right, and now he'd be Vice President of the United States. (Laughter.) True.
But away, we're delighted to be here today in Clear Lake. Wasn't that a fantastic convention last week in New York? (Applause.) And I've been to eight Republican conventions over the years, and that's about right at the top of my list. I thought the President gave a superb speech that last night, laid out a great vision for the future of our nation, talked about how important it is for us to be able to transform government so that all of our citizens are equipped and prepared to take advantage of the dreams and opportunities that we all have.
He also -- he talked about the liberty -- the power of liberty to be able to transform countries. And we look forward to taking our vision over the course of the next 57 days, right down to until November 2nd, when we're going to reelect George Bush President of the United States. (Applause.)
I want to thank Senator Iverson for his hosting us today and for warming up the crowd. He obviously did a good job. (Laughter and applause.)
And I also want to say a word or two about two of your outstanding members of Congress that I work with on a regular basis, Chuck Grassley and Tom Latham. (Applause.) They do a superb job for the people of Iowa.
Now, in 2000, we campaigned hard in Iowa. We didn't quite make it. But we're going to keep working hard right through the election this year. And on November 2nd, Iowa is going to be in the Bush-Cheney win column. (Applause.)
We're now at that point in the race, obviously, where I have an opponent. (Laughter.) No, I really do. And one of the things that I've been intrigued by is everybody keeps saying that John Edwards got picked for the job because he's sexy. He's charming. He's good looking, and he has great hair. I said, "How do you think I got the job?" (Laughter and applause.)
But in all seriousness, this is a very important election. It could not come at a more crucial time in our history. Today we face an enemy every bit as determined to destroy us as were the Axis powers in World War II.
This isn't an enemy we can negotiate with or appease, or reason with. This is, quite simply, an enemy that we must destroy. And with George W. Bush as Commander-in-Chief, that's exactly what we will do. (Applause.)
I'm sure that many of you heard the remarks last week by Rudy Giuliani, in New York. He talked about the attacks on his city, and he remembered that day that as the terrible tragedy occurred, at one point, he turned to his police commissioner, Bernie Kerik, and he said, "Thank God George W. Bush is our President." (Applause.)
Since then, of course, under the President's leadership, we've driven the Taliban from power in Afghanistan. We've closed down the training camps the terrorists used to train to kill Americans. Under the President's leadership, we rid the world of a gathering threat by eliminating the regime of Saddam Hussein. Seventeen months ago, he controlled the lives of 25 million people. Today, he is in jail. (Applause.)
A year ago, Libya had a secret nuclear weapons program. But after our coalition ousted Saddam, Libya's leader, Moammar Ghadafi, had a change of heart. He turned control of Libya's program over to us, and today the uranium, the centrifuges, and the design for those nuclear weapons are under lock and key down at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. (Applause.)
We've shut down the secret network that was the world's most dangerous supplier of illegal nuclear weapons technology. We've put terrorist financers out of business, and dismantled terrorist cells worldwide. Most of the planners of the 9/11 attacks have been captured or killed --? including Khalid Shaykh Muhammad, the mastermind. (Applause.)
We could not have succeeded in these efforts without the help of dozens of countries around the world. We have a coalition of 30 nations in Afghanistan, and some 30 nations in Iraq. We're grateful for their commitment and for the sacrifice of their people, as well. For this part -- for his part, the President's opponent, Senator Kerry, calls our allies a "coalition of coerced and the bribed" and "window dressing."
AUDIENCE: Booo!
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Now, when the President praises our allies, Senator Kerry today called it the phoniest thing he's ever heard.
AUDIENCE: Booo!
THE VICE PRESIDENT: I've got news for Senator Kerry. As General Tommy Franks said recently, every contribution from every nation is important. They deserve our respect, not insults. Demeaning our allies is an interesting approach for someone seeking the office of the presidency. When it comes to diplomacy, it looks to me like John Kerry should stick to windsurfing. (Laughter and applause.)
Under the President's leadership, we have taken unprecedented steps to protect the American people here at home. We passed the Patriot Act to give law enforcement the tools they need to be able to prosecute terrorists. We created the Department of Homeland Security to give our government focus on the mission of protecting the American people.
But a good defense is not enough. We also have gone on the offense on the war on terror -- but the President's opponent even seems to object to that. Senator Kerry has even said that by using our strength, we are creating terrorists and placing ourselves in greater danger. But that is a fundamental misunderstanding of the way the world we live in works. Terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. (Applause.)
America faces a choice between our President and his opponent who has called for us to fight a "more sensitive" war -- as though Al Qaeda will be impressed with our softer side. Senator Kerry declared at the Democratic Convention that he will forcefully defend America -- after we have been attacked. My friends, we have already been attacked. And faced with an enemy who seeks the deadliest of weapons to use against us, we cannot wait for the next attack. (Applause.) We must do everything in our power to prevent it -- and that includes the use of our military forces.
We also have important differences with the Kerry-Edwards record when it comes to providing for our men and women in uniform. There's one story that makes that about as clear as anything could possibly be. It starts with Senators Kerry and Edwards voting yes when the President asked the Congress to authorize the use of force against Saddam Hussein. But then, when it came time to vote for funds that would provide our fighting men and women with body armor, ammunition, jet fuel, and spare parts, Senators Kerry and Edwards voted no.
AUDIENCE: Booo! (Laughter.)
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Only 12 members of the United States Senate opposed the funding that would provide vital resources for our troops. Only four Senators voted for the use of force and against the resources our men and women needed once they were in combat. Only four. Senator Kerry and Senator Edwards were two of those four.
AUDIENCE: Booo!
THE VICE PRESIDENT: At first Senator Kerry said he didn't really oppose the funding. He both supported and opposed it. (Laughter.) He said -- (Laughter.) He said, and I quote, "I actually voted for the $87 billion before I voted against it." Well that certainly clears things up. (Laughter.) But lately he's been saying he's proud that he and John Edwards voted no, and he explains his decision was "complicated."
But funding American troops in combat should never be a complicated question. (Applause.) It's simply wrong to vote to commit our troops, and then refuse to provide them the resources they need. We need a President who will back our troops 100 percent, and that's exactly what we've got in George W. Bush. (Applause.)
President Bush knows that our dedicated servicemen and women represent the very best of the United States of America. And I want to thank them and all the veterans with us here today for what they have done for all of us. (Applause.) One of the most important commitments George W. Bush and I made during the 2000 campaign was that our forces would have the resources they need and the respect they deserve -- and we have kept our word to the United States military. (Applause.)
These are not times for leaders who shift with the political winds, saying one thing one day and another, the next. In his years in Washington, John Kerry has been one of a hundred votes in the United States Senate -- and very fortunately on matters of national security, his views rarely prevailed. But the presidency is an entirely different proposition. A senator can be wrong for 20 years, without consequence to the nation. But a President -- a President -? always casts the deciding vote. And in a time of challenge, America needs -- and America has -- a President we can count on to get it right. (Applause.)
On Iraq, Senator Kerry has disagreed with many of his fellow Democrats. But Senator Kerry's liveliest disagreement is with himself. His back-and-forth reflects a habit of indecision, and sends a message of confusion. And it is all part of a pattern. He has, in the last several years, been for the No Child Left Behind Act -- and against it. He has spoken in favor of the North American Free Trade Agreement -- and against it. He is for the Patriot Act -- and against it. Senator Kerry says he sees two Americas. It makes the whole thing mutual -- America sees two John Kerrys. (Laughter and applause.)
Our country requires strong and consistent leadership for our actions overseas, and the same is true for our policies here at home. When the President and I took the oath of office, on January 1, 2001, (sic) our economy was sliding into recession. Then, on 9/11, terrorists struck our nation and shook the economy once again. We faced a basic decision -- to leave more money with families and businesses, or to take more of the American people's hard-earned money for the federal government. President Bush made his choice. He proposed and he delivered tax savings to the American people -- not once, not twice, but three times. (Applause.)
Every American who pays federal income taxes benefited from the Bush tax cuts, and so has our economy. We've created jobs for the last 12 consecutive months, 1.7 million new jobs over the past year -- including 144,000 jobs last month alone. Here in Iowa, almost 10,000 jobs have been created since last year. Mortgage rates, and interest rates, and inflation are all low. Consumers are confident, businesses are investing, and families are taking home more of what they earn.
We're seeing record exports for farm products. Farm income is up. A strong farm economy is good for the nation, and we have a strong farm economy today. (Applause.)
We know there are still challenges, especially in our manufacturing communities. The President and I will not be satisfied until every American who wants to work can find a job. But this is a strong economy, and it's growing stronger. The Bush tax cuts are working. (Applause.)
Our accomplishments these last four years have made America safer, stronger, and better. They also demonstrate something about the character of our President. He didn't go to the White House to mark time, or to use up energy on small goals. He went to take on the big issues, and to make serious reforms. He has led with confidence, with clear vision, and with unwavering purpose. He's made hard choices. He's kept his word. And that's exactly how he will lead this country for the next four years. (Applause.)
AUDIENCE: Four more years! Four more years! Four more years!
THE VICE PRESIDENT: In our second term, we'll keep moving forward with our pro-growth, pro-jobs agenda. We will work to make the Bush tax cuts permanent. (Applause.) We will work to end lawsuit abuse because we know it's a lot easier for America's businesses to hire new workers if they don't have to keep hiring lawyers. (Applause.)
We will work for medical liability reform because America's doctors should be able to spend their time healing patients, not fighting off frivolous lawsuits. (Applause.)
And we will continue to move forward toward to adopt a comprehensive energy policy -- one that promotes domestic energy production, respects the environment, allows us to develop renewable fuels like ethanol and biodiesel. The President's plan does all these things. But it was blocked by a Democrat filibuster in the Senate. We fell two votes short being able to get that legislation passed. Senators Kerry and Edwards didn't even show up for the vote.
Our opponents have a very different vision for the country. They oppose tax relief; now they're proposing massive increases in federal spending. They oppose effective reform of the legal system, and they're against medical liability reform. Their big idea for the economy: raise our taxes.
AUDIENCE: Booo!
THE VICE PRESIDENT: President Bush and I will also continue to defend our society's fundamental rights and values. We stand for a culture of life, and we reject the brutal practice of partial birth abortion. (Applause.) We stand strongly for the Second Amendment, and we will defend the individual right every American to bear arms. (Applause.) We believe that our nation is "one nation under God" and that Americans ought to be able to say so when they pledge allegiance to the flag. (Applause.)
There shouldn't be any question about this, and there wouldn't be if we had more reasonable judges on the federal bench. But we have a situation in the U.S. Senate where Democrats -? including Senators Kerry and Edwards ?- are using the filibuster to block the President's sensible, mainstream nominations to the judiciary. Recently, they used their obstructionist tactics to keep the Senate from voting on Bill Myers, a fine man, a friend of mine from the West. If Bill Myers had made it to an up-or-down vote on the Senate floor, he had the votes to be confirmed to the Ninth Circuit, which, by the way, is the circuit that decided we should not say "under God" when we pledge allegiance to the flag. Sounds to me like they could use some new judges on the Ninth Circuit. (Applause.) What the Democrats are doing is simply outrageous, and that's why we need to send Chuck Grassley back to the United States Senate. (Applause.)
On issue after issue, President Bush has a clear vision for the future of our nation. America has come to know him, and I have come to admire him very much. I watch him at work every day. He's a person of loyalty and kindness, a man who speaks plainly and who means what he says. I have seen him face some of the hardest decisions that can come to the occupant of the Oval Office -- and make those decisions with the wisdom and humility that Americans expect in their president.
Abroad, under President Bush's leadership, we will use America's great power to serve great purposes, to protect our homeland by turning back and defeating the forces of terror, and to spread hope and freedom around the world. (Applause.) Here at home, we'll continue building prosperity that reaches every corner of the land so that every child in America has a chance to learn, to succeed, and to rise in the world.
The President and I are honored by your confidence in us, and by your commitment to the cause we all share. We will wage this effort with complete confidence in the judgment of the American people. The signs are good -- here in Iowa, and even in Massachusetts. (Laughter and applause.) According to a news account, people leaving the Democratic National Convention in July asked a Boston policeman for directions. He replied, "Leave here -- and go vote Republican." (Laughter and applause.)
President Bush and I are honored to have the support of that police officer, and of Democrats, Republicans, and independents from every calling in American life. We're grateful to our many friends across the great state of Iowa. I want to thank you for this tremendous welcome today to Clear Lake. We're proud to have you on the team. And together, on November 2nd, we'll see our cause forward to victory.
Thank you very much. (Applause.)


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