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John Tyler, President of the United States of America, by John Johnston, formerly agent for Indian affairs, now a citizen of the State of Ohio, commissioner duly authorized and appointed to treat with the Wyandott Nation of Indians for a cession of all their lands lying and being in the States of Ohio and Michigan; and the duly constituted chiefs, counselors, and head-men, of the said Wyandott Nation, in full council assembled, on the other part, have entered into the following articles and conditions, viz:
Article I. The Wyandott Nation of Indians do hereby cede to the United States all that tract of land situate, lying, and being in the county of Crawford and State of Ohio, commonly known as the residue of the large reserve, being all of their remaining lands within the State of Ohio, and containing one hundred and nine thousand one hundred and forty-four acres, more or less. The said nation also hereby cedes to the United States all their right and title to the Wyandotte Reserve, on both sides of the river Huron, in the State of Michigan, containing four thousand nine hundred and ninety-six acres, be the same more or less, being all the remaining lands claimed or set apart for the use of the Wyandotts within the State of Michigan; and the United States hereby promises to pay the sum of five hundred dollars towards the expenses of removing the Indians of the river Huron to Upper Sandusky, but before the latter clause of this article is binding on the contracting parties, the consent of the head-men of the river Huron Wyandotts is to be had in writing.
Article II. In consideration of the foregoing cession, the United States hereby grant to the aforesaid Wyandott Nation a tract of land west of the Mississippi River, to contain one hundred and forty-eight thousand acres, and to be located upon any lands owned by the United States, now set apart, or may in future be set apart for Indian use, and not already assigned to any other tribe or nation.
Article III. The United States agree to pay the Wyandott Nation a perpetual annuity of seventeen thousand five hundred dollars in specie, the first payment to be made within the present year, 1842, to enable the nation the more speedily to remove to their new home in the West; this includes all former annuities.
Article IV. The United States agree to make a permanent provision of five hundred dollars per annum, for the support of a school, to be under the direction of the chiefs, and for no other purpose whatever, the first payment to be made three years hence, and afterwards at the payment of the annuity in each succeeding year.
Article V. The United States agree to pay the Wyandotts the full value of their improvements in the country hereby ceded by them in Ohio and Michigan, which valuation shall be made by two persons to be appointed by the President of the United States, who shall be sworn faithfully to do justice to the parties, the amount of such valuation to be paid at any time after the 1st day of April, 1843, as shall be acceptable to the Wyandott chiefs, to meet their arrangements for emigrating.
Article VI. The United States hereby agree to pay the debts due by members of the Wyandott Nation to citizens of the United States, amounting to twenty three thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars, in conformity to a schedule hereto annexed.
Article VII. The Wyandotts shall be allowed the use and occupancy of their improvements until the 1st of April, 1844, on the condition that they nor any persons claiming or occupying under them by lease or otherwise shall not commit waste or damage on the premises hereby ceded, but this is not to prevent the United States from surveying and selling the land at any time previous to the said 1st day of April, 1844.
Article VIII. The United States engage to provide and support a blacksmith and an assistant blacksmith for the Wyandott Nation, and to furnish annually a sufficient quantity of iron, steel, coal, files, tools, and all other things necessary and proper in such on establishment, and to erect a suitable shop and house or houses for the residence of the blacksmith and his assistant.
Article IX. The United States engage to maintain and support a sub-agent and interpreter to reside among the Wyandotts to aid them in the protection of their persons and property, and to manage their intercourse with the Government and citizens of the United States.
Article X. The buildings and farm occupied by the mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church shall remain in possession of the present incumbents until the 1st day of April, 1844, and permission is hereby given to harvest and remove the crop of fall-grain which may be then sown.
Article XI. All persons identified as members of the Wyandott Nation, and their heirs, and who may emigrate to the west, shall participate equally in the benefits of the annuity, and all other national privileges, and it is expressly understood that those who do not emigrate, and any that may hereafter cease to remain with the nation, will not be entitled to the benefits and privileges aforesaid.
Article XII. Whereas by the 8th article of the treaty of Miami Rapids of September 29th, 1817, (proclaimed January 4, 1819,) there was granted unto Horonu, or Cherokee Boy, a Wyandott chief, one section of land, to contain six hundred and forty acres; and whereas the said Horonu did during his life-time sell and convey to James Whitaker one quarter-section of said land, containing 160 acres, which sale was confirmed by the President of the United States. The said Horonu died in the month of March, 1826, having by his last will bequeathed the remaining three quarter-sections, containing 480 acres, to Squeendehtee and Sooharress, or Isaac Williams, they being the nearest of kin to the deceased, now to the intent that the purposes of the testator may be fully complied with, it is hereby agreed the 480 acres of land, as aforesaid, shall be immediately sold under the directions of the President of the United States, and the net proceeds, after deducting all expenses, be paid over to the heirs aforesaid.
Article XIII. The chiefs of the Wyandott Nation hereby agree to remove their whole people to the west of the Mississippi River with out any other cost to the United States than the sum of ten thousand dollars; five thousand dollars of which is to be paid the said chiefs when the first detachment of their people sets out on their journey to the west, and the remaining five thousand dollars on the arrival of the whole nation at the place of their destination in the west.
Article XIV. The United States agree to grant by patent in fee simple to each of the following-named persons, and their heirs all of whom are Wyandotts by blood or adoption, one section of land of six hundred and forty acres each, out of any lands west of the Missouri River set apart for Indian use, not already claimed or occupied by any person or tribe, viz: Silas Armstrong, John M. Armstrong, Matthew R. Walker, William Walker, Joel Walker, Charles B. Garrett, George Garrett, George J. Clark, Irwin P. Long, Ethan A. Long, Joseph L. Tennery, Robert Robertaile, Jared S. Dawson, Joseph Newell, John T. Walker, Peter D. Clark, James Rankin, Samuel McCulloch, Elliot McCulloch, Isaiah Walker, William M. Tennery, Henry Clay Walker, Ebenezer Z. Reed, and Joel Walker Garrett, and to the following chiefs and councilors one section each: Francis A. Hicks, James Washington, Squeendehtee, Henry Jaques, Tauroonee, Doctor Grey Eyes, George Armstrong, Warpole, John Hicks, Peacock, and George Punch. The lands hereby granted to be selected by the grantees, surveyed and patented at the expense of the United States, but never to be conveyed by them or their heirs without the permission of the President of the United States.
Article XV. The United States agree to pay to William Walker and Joel Walker, each, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, and to John M. Armstrong the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, for services rendered as interpreters in the progress of the negotiation; and to Warpole, a former chief of the Wyandott Nation, one hundred and fifty dollars, money expended by him as one of the party who accompanied Joseph McCutchen, a former commissioner of the United States, to the city of Washington in September, 1839.
Article XVI. In the year 1812 the houses, barns, stables, fences, horses, cattle, and hogs, with farming utensils and household furniture, to a large amount, the property of the late William Walker, of Brownstown, in the Territory of Michigan, was destroyed by the enemy while in the occupancy of the United States forces; and by reason of his attachment to the cause of his country, being a native citizen, taken prisoner in early life by the Wyandott Indians, intermarried, and ever afterward living among them, the evidence of all which is ample and conclusive. There is therefore granted unto Catharine Walker, widow of the said William Walker, and to his heirs, the sum of three thousand dollars, in full satisfaction of their claim, to be paid by the United States to her or them after the ratification of this treaty.
Article XVII. There shall be reserved from sale, and forever devoted to public use, two acres of ground as near as can be in a square form, to include the stone meeting-house and burying-ground near to and north of Upper Sandusky, one acre to include the burying-ground on the bank near the council-house at Upper Sandusky, and one-half acre to include the burying-ground on the farm of Silas Armstrong, which several lots of ground shall forever remain open and free to all persons for the purpose of interment and houses of worship, and for no other purposes whatever.
Article XVIII. This treaty shall take effect and be obligatory on the contracting parties as soon as the same shall be ratified by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof.
In testimony whereof the said John Johnston, commissioner as afore-said, and the chiefs and councilors and headmen of the Wyandott nation in open council, at the council-house at Upper Sandusky in the county of Crawford, and the State of Ohio, on the seventeenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, have set their names.
[SEAL] John Johnston
Fran. A. Hicks, Principal Chief
James Washington (x)
Squeendehtee (x)
Henry Jaquis (x)
Tauroone (x)
George Armstrong (x)
Doctor Grey Eyes (x)
Signed in the presence of:
John W. Bear, Sub. Indian Agent
James Rankin, U. S. Interpreter
G. C. Worth
John Cary
Samuel Newell
Stephen Fowler
Charles Graham
John Walker
Chester Wells
I. Duddleson
Andrew Gardner, jur.
John Justus
We, the undersigned, chiefs and counselors of the Wyandott nation of Indians, residing in the State of Ohio, and representing also the Wyandotts of the River Huron, in Michigan, do hereby give our free and voluntary assent to the amendments made by the Senate of the United States on the 17th day of August, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, to the treaty concluded by us with the United States on the 17th day of March, 1842, the same having been submitted and fully explained to us by John Johnston, commissioner on the part of the United States for that purpose, in full council assembled.
In testimony whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our seals, respectively, at Upper Sandusky, Ohio, the sixteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, 1842.
Henry Jacques, Principal Chief this year, his x mark
James Washington, his x mark
Doctor Grey Eyes, his x mark
George Punch, sen., his x mark
Tauroomee, his x mark
James Big Tree, his x mark
Franccis A. Hicks
In the presence of:
John Johnston, U. S. Commissioner
James Rankin, U. S. Interpreter
John Cary
Joseph Chaffee
James Wheeler, Missionary to the Methodist
Episcopal Church, Wyandotts
William M. Buell
Chas. Graham
H. J. Starr


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My favorites of the reds
and the black/grays, I decided to lump these groups together
All lined up even though I am not convinced they will stay this way. Do you think it is better like this or random bursts of color all over? This will be the hardest part for me I think.
Don't forget today is Week 3 of the New York Beauty QAL being hosted by the very talented Megan at Canoe Ridge Creations. I will be working on mine this week! Beautiful block Megan!

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In one of my projects, we had huge number of Pig scripts which dealt with data from a single source. The schema for this common data source is quite complex and changes every few months. Since this schema was present in all Pig files, when ever it changes, it was a real pain to update all Pig scripts.
I was looking for a way to separate out the schema into a separate Pig file and then include it in all other Pig scripts, like how you import a class in Java, instead of copy pasting it into all Pig files.
After some quick web searches, I found that from Pig 0.9 and above this feature is indeed available in Pig itself. It's called macros. All you need to do is to just include the following line in your Pig script where you need it to be included.
import 'other-file.pig'
You can either give relative path in the above line or set the search path as well from where Pig should include the scripts. If you want to include the search path, then you can do something like this.
set pig.import.search.path '/usr/local/pig,/grid/pig';
import 'external-file.pig';
Now my Pig scripts are organized properly. Hope this helps you as well 🙂


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Clever Canines: Dogs Can 'Read' Our Communication Cues
Dogs can understand our intent to communicate with them and are about as receptive to human communication as pre-verbal infants, a new study shows.
Researchers used eye-tracking technology to study how dogs observed a person looking at pots after giving the dogs communicative cues, such as eye contact and directed speech. They found that the dogs' tendency to follow the person's gaze was on par with that of 6-month-old infants.
The study suggests that dogs have evolved to be especially attuned to human communicative signals, and early humans may have selected them for domestication particularly for this reason, the researchers said.
Other scientists are excited that the eye-tracking method has been successfully adapted for dogs. "This opens many new opportunities in studying dog cognition," said Juliane Kaminski, a cognitive psychologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, who was not involved in the research.
Communicative Intent
"The research was motivated by the infant scientific literature," said study first author Erno Teglas, an infant psychologist at the Central European University in Hungary. The researchers essentially conducted the same experiment with dogs that other scientists did with infants in 2008.
For their study, Teglas and his colleagues tracked the eye movementsof 16 untrained adult dogs during two different trials. The dogs watched a series of movies in which a woman turned her attention toward one of two identical containers — one on her left and one on her right — after addressing the dogs in an "ostensive" or "non-ostensive" manner.
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Ostensive signals, Teglas explained, convey the intention of communication. "You're saying to the dog: 'You are addressed and not someone else, and now I am going to tell you something that's relevant or important to you,'" he told LiveScience.
To convey her intent to communicate in the first trial, the woman in the video made eye contactwith the dogs and then said, "Hi dog!" in a high-pitch, motherly tone (or "doggerly tone," as Teglas describes it). In the second, non-ostensive, trial, the woman didn't look at the dogs at all and said, "Hi dog," in a low-pitch tone, as if she were speaking to another adult.
The researchers found that the dogs spent a similar amount of time looking toward the woman and scanning her face in both trials. However, the dogs spent more time looking at the same container as the woman in the ostensive trials compared with the non-ostensive trials.
The results indicate that, like infants, dogs are sensitive to cues that signal a person's intent to communicate useful information, Teglas said, though it's unclear if certain breeds are better at reading communicative signals than others. [10 Most Popular Dog Breeds]
A special adaptation
Kaminski says that the study fits in with other research (including her own) showing that dogs are aware of the "intentional dimension of communication," a skill that may be a special adaptation unique to dogs.
"There is no other species which is so responsive to communicative cues coming from humans," Kaminski wrote in an email to LiveScience. "Not even apes, as humans' closest living relatives, have the same sensitivity to human communication."
Teglas notes that previous research has shown that wolves, dogs' closest living relatives, are not as adept as dogs at following human gestures to find food or other rewards (in fact, puppies will do better than adult wolves, unless the wolves were specially trained).
One question still remaining, Teglas said, is which communicative cue — eye contact or directed speech — is more important. "One should think that one of the cues might be more relevant," he said. "There might even be different kinds of animals that respond to different kinds of cues."
The research was published today (Jan. 5) in the journal Current Biology.


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At InfoComm 2021, Black Box will showcase reliable, high-performance solutions for modern, IP-based and 4K AV visualization and distribution. The company will highlight its extensive portfolio of products and demonstrate its ability to tailor highly individual pro AV systems informed by decades of experience and backed by an extensive international team of skilled application engineers.
Black Box will also present "Reimagining Your Collaboration Space With AV" (Session T118) on Thursday, Oct. 28, from 2:30-2:50 p.m. ET in Room 1961. The company's experts will be available on Booth 2801 to demonstrate solutions for video walls, digital signage and other advanced AVoIP technologies.
MCX G2 Series Multimedia Distribution and Management System
Black Box, an industry leader in AVoIP and SDVoE products, will launch the MCX G2 series, the next generation of the company's MCX multimedia distribution and management system. The MCX G2 series features the performance of the original S9 and S7 series but adds several market-leading features including best-in-class source-to-screen latency (less than 18 microseconds), one-port or two-port encoding devices, a video loop-through connection, USB-C and three-port USB 2.0 connectivity, and PoE capability. These features provide for a more flexible solution, faster design/implementation and lower overall cost.
The Black Box MCXtakes advantage of SDVoE and modern 10 GbE infrastructure to allow AV and data payloads to exist on the same IT networks. Through advanced chipset technology, common control APIs and interoperability, SDVoE technology ensures zero latency and uncompromised video while offering significant cost savings along with enhanced system flexibility and scalability.
Rather than deploy an entirely new network, users can take advantage of the software-defined solution to leverage existing infrastructure for delivery of better-quality audio and video, which can translate to greater customer satisfaction and faster time to revenue.
The Black Box MCX multimedia distribution and management system enables true convergence of AV and data on a single IT network.
Radian Flex Software-Based Video Wall Processing Platform
Radian Flex is a fully software-based video wall processing platform that delivers future-proof flexibility and scalability for digital signage, corporate, education and mission-critical visualization applications. The intuitive software from Black Box makes it easy to display high-quality content from multiple sources across multiscreen display walls in any imaginable configuration. Users simply add, move, resize and change content on the Radian Flex interface, and those changes are reflected in real time on the target video wall, distributed visualization system or other display devices. Radian Flex supports an unlimited number of inputs, screens and endpoints. Users can easily daisy-chain monitors to display hundreds of H.264 and VNC video streams across multiple screens. Integrated SmartFrame technology ensures perfect picture quality and automates optimal placement of content on the screen with minimal setup. The platform's robust video engine supports 4K 60fps video up to an industry-leading resolution of more than one billion pixels, paving the way for 8K resolution and beyond.
Black Box Radian Flex is a fully software-based video wall processing platform that delivers future-proof flexibility and scalability.
Black Box Presentation: Reimagining Your Collaboration Space
Alan Kaye, director of AV engineering at Black Box, will present "Reimagining Your Collaboration Space With AV" (Session T118) on Thursday, Oct. 28, from 2:30-2:50 p.m. in Room 1961 at the Orange County Convention Center.
AV technologies are driving the post-pandemic workplace and emerging collaboration spaces through AV integration with IoT devices and other collaboration tools. Kaye will discuss how today's AV manufacturers and service providers are designing and deploying collaborative spaces that enable a seamless experience for all participants, no matter their location.
As director of AV engineering at Black Box, Kaye oversees the design team for AV integrations. He has more than 30 years of experience in the AV industry in both management and design roles and is AVIXA CTS-D certified. More information about his session is available at https://www.infocommshow.org/exhibit-hall/technology-innovation-stage.
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Big Data Security Analytics , Cloud Security , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks
Facebook Can't Reset All Breach Victims' Access Tokens
Social Network Reveals It Cannot Log Users Out of All Third-Party ServicesWarning: Attackers behind the recently revealed Facebook mega-breach may still be able to access victims' accounts at third-party web services and mobile apps, and Facebook has offered no timeline for when that might change.
See Also: 5 Requirements for Modern DLP
Here's the problem: Whoever hacked Facebook stole single sign-on access tokens - and thus access - to at least 50 million accounts, which also gives them access to the hundreds of third-party services and mobile apps that accept victims' SSO authentication, dubbed Facebook Social Login or Facebook Login.
On Friday, the company issued a breach notification, saying that attackers abused a "View As" privacy feature to gain access tokens for 50 million accounts, leading to Facebook resetting those access tokens and forcing users to log in again. For another 40 million accounts, just to be safe, Facebook says it also reset tokens - forcing users to log in again - because they had accessed the "View As" feature at some time (see Facebook Breach: Attackers Exploited Privacy Feature).
Individual Facebook users currently lack the ability to forcibly reset their Facebook Social Login access tokens. These tokens allow users to automatically authenticate to third-party web services and mobile apps, from Airbnb and Expedia to Spotify and Tinder. Accordingly, any personal data stored in these services is now at risk via the access tokens attackers stole (see Facebook Breach: Single Sign-On of Doom).
Delegated Security Responsibility
Unfortunately, Facebook now says that while it can reset access tokens, it cannot guarantee that all third-party services that accept Facebook Social Login will honor these token-reset requests. As a result, whoever hacked the social network could still be using Facebook SSO to access victims' other accounts.
Facebook revealed this problem on Tuesday, couching it in its typical spin - namely, attempting to absolve itself by talking about how developers may not be following best practices.
In Facebook-speak: "Security is incredibly important to Facebook. It's why we recommend developers stick to our Facebook Login security best practices," says Guy Rosen, Facebook's vice president of product management, in the Tuesday blog post.
That means Facebook is not guaranteeing that developers follow its best practices, including always using its official software development kit.
As a result, while Facebook says it's reset 90,000 access tokens, "some developers may not use our SDKs - or regularly check whether Facebook access tokens are valid." But Rosen says Facebook is "building a tool to enable developers to manually identify the users of their apps who may have been affected, so that they can log them out."
In other words, at some future date, developers that Facebook has allowed to automatically connect with its users via its SSO Facebook Login may get their act together and review whether their web services or mobile apps have logged out users whose access tokens got stolen.
Facebook: Us, Enforce Rules?
Facebook, however, does not enforce these best practices, which makes these sorts of bromides meaningless, while also putting users at risk.
This corporate approach, in fact, appears to mirror precisely what got Facebook into the Cambridge Analytica data scandal mess. Simply put, Facebook wasn't policing how third parties accessed, processed, used or sold Facebook users' data.
In the interim, data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica obtained profile data for as many as 87 million Facebook users via a "thisisyourdigitallife" personality app created by a U.K.-based researcher named Aleksandr Kogan. Facebook says that Kogan's app was able to access personal data not just for those who used his personality survey, but also some of their friends' data.
As a result, the data potentially may have been used to target them with advertising and disinformation campaigns (see Facebook to Congress: We Shared More Data Than We Said).
Potential Good News
The potential good news for the 50 million victims of Facebook's recent breach, however, is that there are as yet no signs that attackers did abuse the access tokens to access third-party services.
"We have now analyzed our logs for all third-party apps installed or logged in during the attack we discovered last week. That investigation has so far found no evidence that the attackers accessed any apps using Facebook Login," Rosen says.
But this might not be surprising, because one likely perpetrator of this attack would be an intelligence agency that was keen to build "big data" maps of citizenry using the stolen information, rather than raid people's Instagram profiles or Tinder picks.
"This Facebook data is mainly useful to either advertisers or nation-states," says Avivah Litan, vice president at Gartner Research. "I doubt advertisers hacked Facebook, so I imagine this is the work of a nation-state building out its population maps for citizenry of various countries."
In the meantime, Facebook needs to begin building out its ability to not just promulgate best practices to developers, but ensure they comply with them. Because if a service cannot guarantee its ability to offer single sign-off, it has no business providing single sign-on.


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So after I practiced trying to share Nikon with Eddie McSupercute, we headed over to the Pug Rescue Lady's house to drop off Emi.
PRL's house is like a pug mecca. There are 2 full-time pugs who totally would have out-cuted me in a picture, plus whatever recycled ones need a place to crash for a few nights or have no where else to go. Like Gracie. She's been staying at PRL's since the doctors found out she has the C-word.
My human says she has a soft spot for Gracie and was superexcited to see her. Gracie was just superexcited. About everything. My human says the drugs she's taking kinda crack her out, but I think she's just happy and feeling awesome. Between the juju everyone sent, the Omegas Lola donated and the love at Pug Mecca, Gracie's stupid C-word doesn't stand a chance.
Of course since Gracie was feeling so good, my human wanted to take her picture. Which meant more practice for me. There was some worry about a repeat poodle, or Gracie poodling on me because the crack-drugs make her extra food-crazy. But Gracie was fine and I sat on the stupid rock waaaaay in the background just like my human told me to.


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Brand | ESWAR ENTERPRISES |
Equipment Code | EEPE015 |
Material | GI&FRP |
Usage | School,Colleges,Builders,Public Parks etc.,, |
Equipement Dimension | 44' * 17' * 18' |
Require Area Dimension | 50' * 23' * 24' |
Age Group | 3 to 14 years |
Equipement Type | Outdoor Play Equipment |
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Secretary of State John Kerry revealed Friday the highlights of an unclassified intelligence assessment into last weeks reported chemical weapons attack that killed more than 1,000 outside Damascus, saying it is clear to the United States that the Syrian government was responsible.
"We know that a senior regime official confirmed that chemical weapons were used by the regime," Kerry said from the State Department, offering the bluntest rationale yet for military engagement in Syria in a blistering 19 minute statement. "We know this."
According to Kerry, the United States also knows that at least 1,429 Syrians were killed in the attack, including at least 426 children. He said the U.S. has been able to confirm the source of the Syrian chemical weapons in last week's attack, and that Syrian government weapons technicians were known to be preparing their use. Kerry said this assessment was "fact."
"The intelligence community has high confidence," Kerry said. "The question is no longer what we know, it's what we collectively, we in the world, do about it."
According to the intelligence assessment and senior administration officials, the Syrian regime was attempting to clear the Damascus suburb of opposition forces before deploying the chemical weapons. Human, signals, and geospatial intelligence showed three days of preparations before the chemical weapons attack, and Syrian forces were told to take precautions before the attack. After the incident, U.S. intelligence intercepts picked up a senior Syrian official with knowledge of the attack expressing concern that UN officials would discover evidence of the attack, which was followed by a conventional artillery attack designed to cover up the attack.
That order to stop the attack and launch the artillery provided "additional confidence that this was a commanded operation," according to one official.
Kerry did not preview any specific response, but said forcefully that there must be some punishment for Syrian President Bashar Assad.
"This crime against conscience, this crime against humanity. . . this matters to us, and it matters to who we are, and to leadership and credibility in the world. It matters here if nothing is done," Kerry said. "This is about Hizbollah, North Korea and every other terrorist group. Will they remember that the world stood aside and created impunity?"
He promised that whatever military response the President orders, a prospect that appears increasingly likely even with limited international support, would not resemble other recent military adventures in Iraq, Afghanistan or Libya.
But the specter of the 2003 Iraq war, and the false intelligence upon which it was based, still provided context for Kerry's statement. "Our intelligence community has carefully reviewed and rereviewed information regarding this attack," he said. "And I will tell you it has done so more than mindful of the Iraq experience. We will not repeat that moment. Accordingly, we have taken unprecedented steps to declassify and make facts available to people, who can judge for themselves."
An NBC News survey released Friday found that a majority of Americans oppose any military action in response to the use of chemical weapons. Additionally, nearly 80 percent of Americans want Obama to receive congressional approval before ordering strikes.
The full declassified U.S. intelligence assessment is here, and a U.S. intelligence map of the affected areas:
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Maybe you already
thought about how it would be to have your own blog but decided it
would be too much work or take too much time to make it popular. Then,
becoming a guest blogger or co-blogger for Fashion + Freebies For Men might be ideal for you. You can blog just as much as you like and your time allows.
So, ask yourself:
- Do I like to hunt for freebies and share my finds with my friends?
- Do I like to mix and match clothes and accessories to create a personal look?
- Do I know how to take pictures that show the details of my outfit?
If the answer to all of these questions is a "Yes, where can I sign up?"
please create a notecard with a sample post and list of landmarks
(just the way I do it, lol) and send it with a picture in a folder to Yves Firlan. Don't forget to add your name and information on when I can reach you best inworld to discuss further details.
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Lawyers for the prosecution and defense in Kenosha, Wis., begin to deliver closing arguments in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse today. Ahead of the verdict, Wisconsin's governor has also activated the state's National Guard. Rittenhouse faces multiple charges for killing two protesters and wounding a third during demonstrations in August 2020. The prosecution has tried to portray Rittenhouse as a teenage vigilante acting recklessly. Meanwhile, his attorneys say he has acted in self-defense. For more on this, we're joined by Keith Findley. He's a law professor at the University of Wisconsin who's been keeping track of the trial. Professor, what could be making this case complicated for the jurors?
KEITH FINDLEY: Well, you know, factually, it's really not complicated. We all pretty much know what happened. But what makes it really, really complicated is not just that there are multiple counts with what in the law we know as lesser included offenses, which means different levels of the offenses. But really, it's a case that's complicated by the fact that the law does not provide the jury a whole lot of guidance in how to decide it. And that's because the real complicated question is not what happened but, what do we make of what happened? That is to say, was what happened actually reasonable? That's the question the jury has to answer.
But the law does not really inform that question too much but rather leaves it to the jury to be the arbiters of reasonableness, to bring their own values, the community values the socially constructed norms that they all have to the task of figuring out what is reasonable. And, of course, in a politically charged climate, an incident like this one - what's reasonable is going to vary wildly based on your own personal political beliefs, perspectives and whatnot.
MARTÍNEZ: Yeah.
FINDLEY: And that makes it really challenging for them to all come to an agreement on that very important question.
MARTÍNEZ: So, professor, is it reasonable to say that the jurors are almost, in a way, being put in Kyle Rittenhouse's position? What would they have done? What would they have thought in his situation?
FINDLEY: Yes, absolutely. Their task is to determine not only, what did he subjectively believe? But from his perspective, in his shoes, being the person he was, was that objectively reasonable for him to fear if, as he claims, that he - his life was in jeopardy and to believe that he had to use deadly force to protect himself?
MARTÍNEZ: Now, the judge is making a decision on whether the jury can consider lesser charges. What does that mean, and why is that important?
FINDLEY: So in the law, for many offenses, there are - what you can think of it as several levels of offenses. And each higher level includes all of the elements. That is the things the prosecution must prove, plus an additional one or more. And what the prosecutors typically will do is charge the highest level of those layered offenses that they think they can prove. And then at the end of the trial, if one or the other parties wants to give the jury the option of convicting on one of the lesser charges within that hierarchy of offenses, they can ask the judge to instruct that. It - what it does is it basically allows the jury to consider the essential crime charged but to compromise on something that's a little less serious. And they'll do that either because they truly believe, which is what's supposed to happen, that the element that makes it the most serious offense simply hasn't been proven, but the rest have. But they will also sometimes do it simply as a matter of compromise.
MARTÍNEZ: It sounds like a high-stakes poker game in a way.
FINDLEY: Absolutely, absolutely. The lawyers and the parties in those circumstances often have to gamble on whether they want to go for broke, that is let the jury consider only the highest level of offense, betting on whether or not the jury will find all of those elements, or whether they want to compromise on a lesser offense that doesn't require quite as many things to prove and gives the jury an opportunity to compromise, to settle on something in between.
MARTÍNEZ: If Rittenhouse escapes the most serious charges, I mean, what kind of a precedent could that set? I mean, what could it mean in broader terms of armed people at venues or other places?
FINDLEY: Well, there's two kinds of precedents we have to keep in mind here. One is legal precedent. And legal precedent actually creates a kind of law. It's something that can be binding, that other courts will follow in the future. And a jury verdict is not the kind of precedent that will create that because that's usually based on written decisions, most often appellate decisions. And so that won't happen. But really, what's at stake is really more of a sort of a societal precedent, a norm that's being established. And certainly, whichever way the trial turns out here, this will affect the way that our community approaches volatile public protests in the future and whether or not we think as a community it's acceptable for armed - heavily armed people to attend these very, very volatile, potentially violent situations.
MARTÍNEZ: One more thing, professor - the jury in this case has not been sequestered. And given that we've seen interviews from Rittenhouse's mom and even a witness from the trial on television during the trial, could that be an issue?
FINDLEY: You bet it can be. You know, the jury has not been sequestered, so they will have the ability to hear other information. The judge has instructed them not to talk to people, not to listen to news. And that's very important. But it's kind of on the honor system on that.
MARTÍNEZ: That's Keith Findley, law professor at the University of Wisconsin. Thank you very much.
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A new deal of cards for emerging markets
The past quarter has been marked by a continued rise in oil prices and capital outflows from emerging markets, fuelling the depreciation of their currencies (see Graph 2, p. 4). The worsening currency crises in Argentina and Turkey this summer (which led us to downgrade their country assessments in the second quarter of the year) are emblematic cases. This trend began in a context of very positive dynamics in the United States' economy (growth of more than 4% in the second quarter; business confidence at its highest level in 14 years), which surprised both market participants and the US Federal Reserve, leading the latter to tighten its monetary policy more quickly than expected.
As we pointed out in our Q2 2018 Barometer, vulnerabilities specific to emerging countries also explain this trend. The Argentine and Turkish economies are characterised by their large external imbalances and therefore their dependence on external financing. A large part of their public and private debt is denominated in foreign currency. In both Argentina and Turkey, the acceleration in the depreciation of their currencies last summer was aggravated by various factors. For Argentina, President Mauricio Macri's decision on the 29th August to ask the IMF to disburse funds in advance, out of the USD 50 billion loan granted under the country's program signed with the international financial organisation last spring, worried Argentine peso holders.
This had the counterproductive ef fect of creating a panic for the Argentinean economy, which was already in crisis, with an expected annual average infl ation rate of, 30% for 2018. Following this announcement, the Argentine peso spiralled by about 13% in one day and the central bank was forced to increase its key rate by 1,500 basis points, to reach 60% per year. This rapid tightening of credit conditions is expected to push the Argentine economy into recession this year (-2.4% after +2.9% in 2017). The continued deterioration of the country's economy is refl ected in our sectoral assessments with the downgrading of six out of thirteen sectors (see p. 9). At this stage, a majority of sectoral assessments for the country are classified as "High Risk" or "Very High Risk".


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The term "switched virtual circuit" was coined needlessly to distinguish an ordinary virtual circuit from a permanent virtual circuit. (One of the perpetrators of this confusion appears to be ["Networking Essentials", 1996, Microsoft Press, ISBN 1-55615-806-8], a book aimed at people preparing for the MCSE exam on LANs and WANs). Not to be confused with switched virtual connection.Last updated: 2001-10-26
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For a moment, forget about some of the real-world issues surrounding the Sochi Olympics: the threat of a terrorist attack, which has seems more real after the recent bombings in Volgograd, the controversies over Russia's anti-gay laws, the ridiculous expense of the Games, the environmental consequences of staging the Olympics in a resort town by the Black Sea.
NBC, the network that empties its coffers for the rights to broadcast the games, has a more practical problem as it courts American fans drawn to the Phelpsian big-names: Which American athletes are worth watching?
American audiences like stars, and story-lines about breaking records. With skier Lindsey Vonn's announcement Tuesday that she's withdrawing from the Olympics, the U.S. just lost its biggest-name attraction. Vonn was marketing gold for the Vancouver Olympics. But given her continued success on the mountain, and her relationship with, you know, the most famous athlete in the world, she was bigger bonanza before Sochi. Vonn is a household name. Sadly, her knee wouldn't cooperate.
So now what? Well, Shaun White is back, but haven't we exhausted our "Flying Tomato" infatuation? He's a bit 2006. White even cut his famous locks. White's pursuit of gold in a new event, slopestyle snowboarding, does add some intrigue. He'll have to carry the A-list load.
(MORE: Ghosts of Munich Haunt Sochi Olympics In Wake Of Russia Bombings)
Bode Miller is also back, still a threat, but past his prime. Speedskater Shani Davis has never craved media attention; that approach is worthy of respect, but it's not a formula for winning tons of mainstream fans. America has no gold medal favorites in figure skating, the glamor event of the games. Apolo Ohno is now in the broadcast booth. The men's and women's hockey teams may thrive – look out for the Lamoureux twins, who have a habit of fighting Canadians, on the women's side. But hockey players don't drive eyeballs like their basketball counterparts in the summer games.
Some athletes may emerge, and lift NBC's ratings. Ice dancers Meryl Davis and Charlie White are favorites to win American's first gold in that event. Teen skiing phenom Mikaela Shiffrin could be the next Vonn. In short-track speedskating, J.R. Celski is trying to fill Ohno's enormous shoes. The women's ski jumpers will make their debut in Sochi, and defending world champ Sarah Hendrickson has crossover potential. But she's battling her own knee issues. And for most Americans, ski jumping is still a foreign, and strange, sport.
The Olympics always surprise. That's what drives their popularity. But America – and NBC — also needed a sure thing. Vonn's absence leaves a void. And no one will replace it.
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The grief-stricken Irish parents of the two girls who were run over by a car at a church festival in Yonkers last Friday night are maintaining a constant vigil at the bedside of their surviving daughter Lindsey, and deferring memorial arrangements for their 15-year-old daughter Kalie who was killed in the accident.
The parents spoke to Irish Voice/IrishCentral on Tuesday and said they have been told their daughter can make a full recovery.
Meanwhile the driver who knocked down the two girls, local schoolteacher Roseanne Piccirilli, has issued a statement of condolence.
"My prayers go out to the Gill family at this time of loss and tragedy. I am grateful for the kindness they have shown in their public statements, and cannot even imagine the sense of loss that they feel," said the statement by Roseanne Piccirilli.
"My family and I are praying for the recovery of Lindsey and ask that God will watch over her and over the soul of her sister Kalie," she said. "This is a wonderful family, and what has happened is so very tragic."
Her husband, Nick Piccirilli, told a Journal News reporter to "tell them we appreciate what they said. and that his wife was 'too distraught' to speak about the incident."
Speaking to the Irish Voice on Tuesday morning at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx while 12-year-old Lindsey was undergoing surgery, shattered Co. Leitrim natives Damien and Karen Gill said Lindsey's condition is improving and she is expected to eventually make a full recovery.
Her Tuesday morning surgery was to repair a broken femur, but her father said Lindsey was "doing very good."
"She's a tough one. She's a fighter," Gill added. "She has a lot of broken bones. She has been under sedation and has been in pain."
Lindsey, Gill said, does not know that her sister and best friend Kalie was killed. "No, there's enough going on with her right now that she doesn't need to know," Gill said.
The Gills were surrounded by friends and family members from Ireland in the Jacobi waiting room, all of whom remain in a state of shock at the disaster that snatched Kalie's life at such a young age.
"Kalie was wonderful, the best. Just perfect," a teary-eyed Karen Gill, a stay-at-home mom, told the Irish Voice.
Damien Gill, a carpenter, watched a video of Kalie and Lindsey earlier on Tuesday. "You'd see one and then you'd see the other. They were always together," he said.
"In the video they were dancing around to a Rihanna song and having a pillow fight."
On Friday night, the girls attended the annual festival for St. Paul the Apostle Church in Yonkers. They were accompanied by friends and a cousin, "ready to have lots of fun," Damien said.
Shortly after 9 p.m. a Jeep driven by a sixth grade school teacher at St. Paul's, Roseanne Piccirilli, inexplicably plowed into the crowd at the festival, fatally striking Kalie and seriously injuring Lindsey. Two other people suffered minor injuries.
Kalie was pronounced dead at Jacobi, while Lindsey underwent a series of surgeries and is facing more in the days to come.
The Gills said they don't know what happened to make Piccirilli lose control of the vehicle. Even though their lives will never be the same, they hold no animosity towards the schoolteacher who is said to be devastated by the atrocity.
"They don't know what happened, but I feel very sorry for her," said Damien Gill. "It's something she'll have to live with too."
Relatives from Ireland have made the journey to New York to offer support to the Gill family, and more are expected in the days ahead. "Yes, they feel helpless back at home," said Damien, who only returned from Ireland last week after burying his mother.
The family had originally moved to New York from Co. Leitrim in 1990. Their children – including daughter Jamie, 21 – were born here before the family relocated back to Leitrim for several years to run their own business. The Gills returned to the heavily Irish Woodlawn section of the Bronx during the summer.
Kalie was a beloved sophomore at St. Barnabas High School, while Lindsey attended the local PS. Jamie is employed at the Rambling House bar and restaurant in Woodlawn owned by the Carty family from Leitrim, who are indirectly related to the Gills through marriage. The Rambling House is currently accepting donations for the Gill family.
The outpouring of concern from the Irish American community has provided some solace for the Gills during their darkest days.
"We just want to say thank you," Karen Gill said.
"People have been so kind. We could feed the whole hospital with all of the donations of food we've gotten," Damien added.
Kalie Gill's friends remain stunned by the tragedy. A touching video tribute to Kalie on YouTube has attracted close to 2,000 views and dozens of loving comments.
Roseanne Piccirilli has taught nine years at St.Paul the Apostle and has not returned to work.
"She's not thinking about anything like that," said the Rev. James Healy, of St. Paul's. "I don't think at this point she knows what she's doing. She's just consumed with the loss of this girl."
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The following is an excerpt from Kofi Annan's final address to the UN Security Council on the Middle East, on December 12, 2006.
One of the most frustrating aspects of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict is the apparent inability of many people on both sides to understand the position of the other, and the unwillingness of some to even try. As a true friend and supporter of both sides, I would like to address frank messages to each.
It is completely right and understandable that Israel and its supporters should seek to ensure its security by persuading Palestinians, and Arabs and Muslims more broadly, to alter their attitude and behavior toward Israel. But they are not likely to succeed unless they themselves grasp and acknowledge the fundamental Palestinian grievance—namely, that the establishment of the State of Israel involved the dispossession of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian families, turning them into refugees, and was followed nineteen years later by a military occupation that brought hundreds of thousands more Palestinians under Israeli rule.
Israel is justifiably proud of its democracy and its efforts to build a society based on respect for the rule of law. But Israel's democracy can thrive only if the occupation over another people ends. Former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon acknowledged as much. Israel has undergone a major cultural shift since the days of Oslo: all of Israel's major political parties now acknowledge that Israel needs to end the occupation, for its own sake, and for the sake of its own security.
Yet thousands of Israelis still live in territories occupied in 1967—and more than one thousand more are added every month. As Palestinians watch this activity, they also see a Barrier being built through their land in contravention of the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice, as well as more than five hundred checkpoints to control their movement, and the heavy presence of the Israeli Defense Forces. Their despair at the occupation only grows, as does their determination to resist it. As a result, some tend to invest much of their trust in those who pursue the armed struggle rather than a peace process that does not seem to yield the coveted goal of an independent state.
I agree with Israel and its supporters that there is a difference—moral as well as legal—between terrorists, who deliberately target civilians, and regular soldiers who, in the course of military operations, unintentionally kill or wound civilians despite efforts to avoid such casualties. But the larger the number of civilian casualties and wounded during these operations, and the more perfunctory the precautions taken to avoid such losses, the more this difference is diminished. The use of military force in densely populated civilian areas is a blunt instrument that only produces more death, destruction, recrimination, and vengeance. And as we have seen, it does little to achieve the desired goal of stopping terrorist attacks. Israelis may reply that they are merely protecting themselves from terrorism, which they have every right to do. But that argument will carry less weight as long as the occupation in the West Bank becomes more burdensome and the settlement expansion continues. Israel will receive more understanding if its actions were clearly designed to help end an occupation rather than to entrench it.
We should all work with Israel to move beyond the unhappy status quo and reach a negotiated end to the occupation based on the principle of land for peace….
It is completely right and understandable to support the Palestinian people, who have suffered so much. But Palestinians and their supporters will never be truly effective if they focus solely on Israel's transgressions, without conceding any justice or legitimacy to Israel's own concerns, and without being willing to admit that Israel's opponents have themselves committed appalling and inexcusable crimes. No resistance to occupation can justify terrorism. We should all be united in our unequivocal rejection of terror as a political instrument….
Some may feel satisfaction at repeatedly passing General Assembly resolutions or holding conferences that condemn Israel's behavior. But one should also ask whether such steps bring any tangible relief or benefit to the Palestinians. There have been decades of resolutions. There has been a proliferation of special committees, sessions, and Secretariat divisions and units. Has any of this had an effect on Israel's policies, other than to strengthen the belief in Israel, and among many of its supporters, that this great Organization is too one-sided to be allowed a significant role in the Middle East peace process?
Even worse, some of the rhetoric used in connection with the issue implies a refusal to concede the very legitimacy of Israel's existence, let alone the validity of its security concerns. We must never forget that Jews have very good historical reasons for taking seriously any threat to Israel's existence. What was done to Jews and others by the Nazis remains an undeniable tragedy, unique in human history. Today, Israelis are often confronted with words and actions that seem to confirm their fear that the goal of their adversaries is to extinguish their existence as a state, and as a people.
Therefore, those who want to be heard on Palestine should not deny or minimize that history, or the connection many Jews feel for their historic homeland. Rather, they should acknowledge Israel's security concerns, and make clear that their criticism is rooted not in hatred or intolerance, but in a desire for justice, self-determination, and peaceful coexistence.
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"If that kid could see you today, he would... throw up." -LizEvery now and then, I'll go back over old blog reviews of "30 Rock" and look with dismay at the ones where I did nothing but list the jokes I liked -- not because my opinion of those episodes has changed, but because I feel like I've in some way fallen down on the job. If I can't do more than just list what was great -- if I can't explain why it was great, or what the larger meaning of its greatness is -- then what good am I as a TV critic, right?
Then I watch an episode like "Apollo, Apollo" -- easily the best "30 Rock" of the season, and one of the series' best episodes to date, one that required me to make liberal use of the DVR rewind function to go back and catch jokes I had missed because I was laughing so hard at the ones before them -- and I'll be damned if I don't want to do anything but rattle off the many, many, many jokes I loved. If anything, there's a part of me that feels that, where my deconstruction of a show like "Mad Men" or "Battlestar Galactica" -- or even another comedy like "The Office" (which was also great tonight, and which I'll get to in the morning) -- might enhance the experience, when "30 Rock" is this good, there's a magical quality to it that I feel I can only take away from by trying to explain its genius.
Still, I wanna try -- before going to the inevitable bullet point list -- because I do feel like this one was special, and a significant cut above even some of this season's stronger entries like "Believe in the Stars", and I think I can get at why without ruining the magic trick.
So, some of the reasons why:
It had Muppets. Okay, this is an obvious one. The Muppets rule, and singing Muppet Jack (pictured above) was only topped by the transition from Muppet Liz to flesh-and-blood Liz moving in a very Muppet-like fashion. But Muppets alone aren't enough. What else?
It had Dennis. Dennis also rules, and I would argue is a stronger occasional character than Dr. Spaceman (who's usually awesome but occasionally misses the target). The writers (in this case, Robert Carlock) have completely zoomed in on the narcissistic worldview of that kind of That Guy, then cranked those qualities up to appropriately absurd "30 Rock" proportions. So much nonsense spews out of his mouth that it's easy to miss it all, but a line like him explaining that he was upset to watch Hurricane Katrina coverage and see "what those people were doing to the Super Dome" sums up his idiocy within the "30 Rock" universe -- and his genius to us viewers at home -- quite neatly.
It had heart. It's easy for a show with this many talented writers and actors to just turn into an amalgam of zany gags. And, certainly, those episodes can be awfully satisfying on their own. But the ones that allow Jack and/or Liz to have some human emotions in the midst of the chaos are even moreso. Jack feeling so much joy as a kid that he had to vomit is a good joke on its own, but the way Alec Baldwin played Jack's sadness at reaching 50 and no longer feeling happy enough to puke made the final payoff that much richer. And speaking of which...
It all came together. This, more than anything else, is the thing that's been separating some of this season's better episodes from the truly classic "30 Rock"s like "Rosemary's Baby" or "The Fighting Irish." Even the episodes that are filled with very strong jokes and/or brief moments of pathos from one of the characters don't quite end as well as they could. Either the jokes tail off, or they fail to cross over, or both. Here, each joke built on top of each other -- say, the way Kenneth's Muppet-vision was followed by Tracy's Tracy-vision and then Jack's $-vision -- and then they all collided at the end, as Liz and Jenna's feud, Jack's need for a moment of happiness, and the practice of turning your own name into a gerund to describe a gross bodily function all blended into a hilarious climax. (And even there, the script kept adding more jokes, like Frank's horrified "He's mortal!" reaction to seeing Jack vomit.)
This was just genius all around, and Carlock, director Millicent Shelton and the whole gang deserve an extra attaboy, followed by the traditional lazy bullet-point list of other stuff I loved, including:
• Jack has a Google News alert for "Tracy Jordan ridiculous disaster"
• Jack's list of things he wanted to (and did) accomplish by 50 included "Beat up a Russian"
• Grizz is Adam West's agent
• Liz's Jenna impression has a British accent, and Jenna is both happy about that and eager to explain why
• Tracy's childhood dream of going into space includes "killing the Ewok"
• Tracy is totally on his game in the meeting with Liz, with the clever wordplay and the quoting of Robert Browning
• Jack threatens to "Benjamin Button myself" if he can't find out what was in the box
• Pete once dreamed of following his dad into Congress, if not for that one DUI in high school...
• Jack assumes from watching "24" that video technicians can analyze anything from any image
• For that matter, the mere fact that Jack watches "24"
• Everyone Jack brings in to solve the mystery thinks they're there for a job interview
• As Tracy and company do their own version of the "Right Stuff" slo-mo walk (the second NBC comedy of the week to do so), Kenneth makes perfect "Star Wars" creature noises (do any of you want to try to identify exactly what creature that was?)
• Tracy in the simulator: "I'm Lizzing! Hah hah! Lizzing! I'm Lizzing!"
• In Jack-vision, Kenneth is only worth seven bucks
• Every single damn thing about Liz's Chicago phone sex commercial, from the hairstyle to the teeth to the random eating of pizza halfway through
• In addition to Frank, Lutz's horrified reaction to the Jacking -- "What just happened?!?!?!" -- was pretty great.
Feel free to add your own favorites if I've left any out.
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Self-cooling batteries: more power for large electric forklift trucks
Sector: Paper industry
Company: Lünewell is a subsidiary of the family company Cartoflex
Challenges: Production of 150 million square metres of corrugated board per year. Daily delivery of 72 paper rolls weighing up to 3.8 tonnes.
Solution: Replace diesel forklift trucks with efficient, emission-free electric forklift trucks with self-cooling PowerPlusLife batteries and special accessories for handling paper rolls.
STILL products: RX 60-80 electric forklift truck stacks up to 8 tonnes more than 9 metres high.
In heavy-duty applications, such as in the paper industry, the conventional lead acid batteries of large electric forklift trucks often reach their temperature limits. With self-cooling PowerPlusLife batteries, the renowned forklift truck manufacturer and intralogistics specialist STILL has developed a costeffective solution. Lünewell, the corrugated board manufacturer, is already reaping the benefits. Two STILL RX 60 electric forklift trucks (8-tonne load capacity) were fitted with the patented battery system to meet the demands of handling up to 3.8-tonne paper rolls.
Lünewell: "The art of corrugation"
The medium-sized family business Cartoflex has been converting corrugated
board into intelligent packaging systems for 35 years. In its new production hall in
Lüneberg, its subsidiary company Lünewell now produces more than 150 million
square metres of its own corrugated board per year using cutting-edge technology. It
is now applying its specialist knowledge of the packaging industry's specific requirements
for the corrugated profile, acquired over many years, to its own corrugated
board production.
Handling heavy paper rolls with electric forklift trucks
Thirty STILL electric industrial trucks are used to transport the delicate products.
The full service means they are always available and the costs easy to calculate.
Lorries deliver some 72 paper rolls to the production hall every day. The magnificent
rolls weigh up to 3.8 tonnes and stand 2.5 metres high. Two new RX 60-80 electric
forklift trucks were purchased from STILL specifically to cope with the challenge of
handling the heavy rolls; they were each fitted with one of STILL's air-cooled Power-
PlusLife batteries for high handling capacity. The powerful RX 60 forklift trucks are
able to unload the lorries and transport the products to the warehouse, where up to
three paper rolls are stacked up to a total height of 7.5 metres to save space. They
also feed the paper rolls into the production machine.
Electric forklift trucks versus forklift trucks with combustion engines
Until now, diesel trucks, in particular, have offered high load capacities. The engines
often had to be fitted with additional components such as diesel catalytic converters,
particle filters and SCR (selective catalytic reduction) catalysts to reduce nitrogen
oxide emissions (NOX) for indoor use. Andreas Isermann, Head of Maintenance,
confirms this, adding: "In addition to the strict requirements and contaminated air,
which would have soiled the paper rolls, we would have had to install a tank system.
Diesel trucks are also louder than equivalent electric ones and increase the room
temperature, which is already high from the corrugated card production."
Electromobility is gaining more and more momentum – electrical energy storage
systems are becoming increasingly efficient, and volume effects are sure to bring
about a reduction in prices in the future. The costs of servicing and maintaining electric
forklift trucks are considerably lower than for equivalent diesel trucks. With the
increasing efficiency of the energy storage systems, more powerful components are
also being installed. Consequently, electric vehicles, which are more efficient than
ones with fossil fuel drives, will increasingly encroach on the domains of vehicles
with internal combustion engines.
PowerPlusLife battery technology
In heavy-duty electric forklift truck applications, that is, ones which consume a lot of
power such as the handling of heavy paper rolls, the core temperature of lead acid
batteries can get too high. Until now, the only solution was to install additional or
particularly expensive specialist batteries with a high energy density.
In contrast, STILL's PowerPlusLife battery draws on tried and tested lead acid
technology and offers a cost-effective solution thanks to its patented self-cooling
system. In the new STILL PowerPlusLife battery, a number of temperature-controlled
fans cool the battery's core effectively in any situation. The air cooling system lowers
the temperature of the battery in the forklift truck, at the charger or at the point of supply. That eliminates the need for cooling cycles after driving and loading. Andreas
Isermann: "STILL's battery technology came just at the right time. We now have
enough capacity for a full shift. After that, the batteries can be recharged quickly.
Additional replacement batteries are no longer necessary."
The electric forklift truck's power enters the domain of the IC truck
The reduction of the core temperature by up to 20°C significantly conserves STILL's
PowerPlusLife battery. That drastically increases capacity. The acceleration and
lifting speed, for example, can be increased by up to 25 percent. If necessary, the
maximum driving speed can be increased by 18 percent from 17 to 20 km/h.
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"Some of their opponents do feel Washington is one club badly hurt by the lack of exhibition games. It will take time to adjust from Dale Hunter's system to Adam Oates's. McPhee said that when the Devils made changes last season (with Oates on staff), 'It took 16-20 games before they were doing it right.'"
After 16 games last season the Devils had 66 more to hone their skills in the Oates system after getting to the point of "doing it right." This year, no team has the luxury of what amounts to a 16-20 game shakedown cruise. After 16 games last season, the Devils were 8-7-1, but then again, they started 3-1-1 in their first five games, not 1-3-1.
Over their last 66 games the Devils were 40-21-5 and still finished sixth in the Eastern Conference. This year the Caps will have fewer than half that to make up any ground lost over a 16-game break-in period by learning how to do things right in this system.
They can mitigate that problem by speeding up the learning curve, but based on early results the chances of that seem iffy. However, if they do not speed things up, the last 32 games of the regular season might be less of a chase for the 2013 playoffs than it will be an extended training camp in advance of the 2013-2014 season.


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Welcome to Campus Technology's article listing page for networking / wireless in higher education institutions.
Forward-thinking CIOs are exploring the potential of IoT technologies in higher education and heading off challenges along the way.
The Connect America Fund Phase II auction (otherwise known as "Auction 903") will award up to $198 million annually for 10 years to service providers that commit to offer deliver 10 Mbps-caliber voice and broadband services to fixed locations in unserved high-cost areas.
The 58-campus North Carolina Community College System recently selected Fujitsu M10 servers and Ellucian software to be implemented at 40 colleges. As a result, NCCCS is experiencing a 50 percent decrease in power consumption using the energy efficient green technology, in addition to faster response times.
A team of faculty at Stanford University has launched the Platform Lab, a new initiative that aims to develop infrastructure to control swarms of devices, such as drones or autonomous vehicles.
Last year, a team led by Vivienne Sze, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, developed an energy-efficient chip designed for neural networks that might allow them to run on smartphones.
Communication is far and away the most relevant job skill for engineers to have for success with the Internet of Things, according to a survey of IEEE engineers.
Zagg, a Salt Lake City-based mobile device accessories company, today has introduced a wired keyboard for all Apple iOS devices with a Lightning connector.
The third annual Maker Faire San Diego, Oct. 7-8, in Balboa Park, is now open for entries. This family friendly, two-day event, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., welcomes a variety of diverse, out-of-the-box ideas from makers, inventors, tinkerers, do-it-yourselfers and hackers.
The latest fight for net neutrality has officially begun. On one side of the ring stands FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, a Trump appointee who controls a majority of votes for any decisions currently made by the Federal Communications Commission.
If you are traveling to Chicago this month to convene with other higher education IT leaders at CT2017, here are 8 sessions worth attending.


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Parenthood's Dax Shepard is about to become a parent himself!
The 37-year-old's fiancee, Kristen Bell, is pregnant, the actress' rep tells Us Weekly. This will be the first child for the When in Rome costars, who got engaged in 2009 after two years of dating.
Even with a baby on the way, don't expect the L.A.-based couple to tie the knot anytime soon. "The reason we're not rushing to get married is because I don't feel appropriate taking advantage of a right that's denied to my [gay and lesbian] friends," Bell, 32, told The Advocate in February. "That's why we've been so hesitant. Dax and I have talked about it a lot, and this issue is very important to both of us. We're just standing up for what we believe in. Period."
While promoting their movie Hit and Run in August, Shepard said neither he nor Bell would have any qualms about having a child out of wedlock. "We're not really worried about that," he said on Larry King Now.
For Bell, Shepard is — and always has been — the man of her dreams. "He constantly keeps me laughing: when I'm sad, mad, frustrated, annoyed. Regardless of what it is he can lighten the mood. He'll do anything that the mood requires," she once told Us. "I can't get frustrated and that is a very powerful weapon. Comedy is a very powerful weapon. He's so funny that it's overwhelming."


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Although Sesame Street's creators have never said the two characters are gay, viewers have long speculated that roommates Bert and Ernie are more than just friends.
Perhaps a new petition, started by Illinois resident Lair Scott, was prompted by the changing tide in the U.S.: in June, New York became the sixth — and largest — state to legalize same-sex marriage. Or maybe people just want Sesame Street to continue with its progressive message, which has seen the show deal with the sensitive topics of race, death and self-acceptance. Some people might think that if Archie Comics can introduce its first gay character, then Sesame Street, which celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2009, should certainly let its two "gayest" characters marry.
(MORE: Top 10 Sesame Street Moments)
Opponents of the petition say that having Bert and Ernie marry all of a sudden could confuse children who may never have caught on to the rumors. Would children then think that men who live together must be gay? Other critics say the move would be too political for a children's program, because these are in fact Muppets we're talking about — none of which are married or even in romantic relationships. The show is, after all, supposed to be about ABCs and 123s. But in the past, Sesame Street has introduced a Latina Muppet as well as an HIV-positive Muppet, so producers aren't exactly ignoring cultural shifts.
(LIST: Top 10 Celebrity Sesame Street Songs)
Scott, the petition creator, believes that allowing the characters to marry or introducing a transgender character could help bullied and struggling LGBT kids "know that they ARE BEAUTIFUL and their lives are worth living." So far, more than 700 other people agree.
PHOTOS: Sesame Street's 40-Year Cavalcade of Stars
Frances Romero is a writer-reporter at TIME. Find her on Twitter at @frances_romero. You can also continue the discussion on TIME's Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.


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The nature of the bridgehead-bridgehead bond in [1.1.1]propellane 1 poses an interesting quandary. The bond involves two inverted carbon atoms, whose hybrids should point away from each other. The internuclear region has in fact much less electron density than for an ordinary C-C bond. Nonetheless, the molecule is stable and the C-C bond is estimated to have a strength of about 6 kcal mol-1.
Shaik and Hiberty1 have now proposed that the central C-C bond of [1.1.1]propellane is a charge-shift bond. In classical valence bond theory, we have three configurations for a bond: the covalent structure A↑↓B ↔ A↓↑B, and the two ionic structures A↑↓ B and A B↑↓. The description of a typical covalent bond is dominated by the covalent VB structure with a little bit of the ionic structures mixed in. A charge-shift bond is one where the resonance energy due to the mixing of the covalent and ionic structures mostly accounts for the stabilization of the bond.2 Just such a case is found in the F-F bond, and also to for the central C-C bond of [1.1.1]propellane!
(1) Wu, W.; Gu, J.; Song, J.; Shaik, S.; Hiberty, P. C., "The Inverted Bond in [1.1.1]Propellane is a Charge-Shift Bond," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2008, ASAP DOI: 10.1002/anie.200804965
(2) Shaik, S.; Danovich, D.; Silvi, B.; Lauvergnat, D. L.; Hiberty, P. C., "Charge-Shift Bonding – A Class of Electron-Pair Bonds That Emerges from Valence Bond Theory and Is Supported by the Electron Localization Function Approach," Chem. Eur. J., 2005, 11, 6358-6371, DOI: 10.1002/chem.200500265
1: InChI=1/C5H6/c1-4-2-5(1,4)3-4/h1-3H2


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Solid state relay heatsinks are devices that provide solid state relays with a means of dissipating heat and maintaining safe operating temperatures. All solid state relays generate heat and failure to manage this can result in the relay's failure or destruction.
Solid state relay heatsinks are made of high thermal conductive materials such as silver, gold, copper or aluminium. Aluminium is commonly used for its availability and low cost, typically with a black anodized finish to provide additional radiant heating dissipation. The heatsink is firmly attached to the solid state relay.
Heatsinks have vertical fins through which hot air flows, normally assisted by a fan. The fins provide a large surface area that cools the air. Once cooled, the air is expelled into the environment, so ventilation is crucial. A heatsink's performance is measured by its thermal impedance (resistance to the transfer of thermal energy). A lower numerical thermal impedance rating means more efficient heat transfer.
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Siewert Equipment has partnered with American Compliance Systems (ACS) to strengthen the company's commitment to safety in all of our units. There is an independent party that periodically assesses and catalogs all of our facilities and safety procedures, we adjust procedure adjustments and training as part of our ongoing continuous improvement towards safety.
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Cleaning out your dryer vent seems, to some, to be either too simple to bother hiring a professional, or just unnecessary.
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It often amazes people just how much lint comes off their clothing when they use a dryer. But what exactly is lint? Lint is made up of tiny fibers which come away from the edge of your clothing. Every time you wear a piece of clothing, minuscule pieces of fiber break off, but through the force of static electricity (and for numerous other reasons), they stick to the outside of the garment. When you use your dryer, the moisture removes the dirt and loose fibers from your clothing, which is then deposited in your dryer and its vent. This lint builds up in the dryer and dryer vent over time unless cleaned.
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Between 2010 and 2014, US fire departments responded to over 15,000 home fires involving clothes dryers. Of those fires, 27% were a result of dust, fiber, or lint.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, produced a report in which it determined that of 15,000 fires studied in one year, electric dryers were over two times as likely as gas dryers to be the cause of fire.


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Silver-spotted Skipper (Epargyreus clarus [Cramer])
Wing span: 1 3/4 - 2 5/8 inches (4.5 - 6.7 cm).
Identification: Wings are brown-black; hindwing is lobed. Forewing has transparent gold spots; underside of hindwing has a metallic silver band.
Life history: Adults perch upside down under leaves at night and on hot or cloudy days. To seek females males perch on branches and tall weeds, and occasionally patrol. Females lay single eggs near the host trees, and the caterpillars must find their proper host. Young caterpillars live in a folded leaf shelter; older ones live in a nest of silked-together leaves. Chrysalids hibernate.
Flight: Two broods from May-September in most of the East, a single brood to the north and west, three-four broods from February-December in the Deep South.
Caterpillar hosts: Many woody legumes including black locust (Robinia pseudacacia), honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos) and false indigo (Amorpha species). Also selected herbaceous legumes such s Glycyrrhiza species.
Adult food: The Silver-spotted Skipper almost never visits yellow flowers but favors blue, red, pink, purple, and sometimes white and cream-colored ones. These include everlasting pea, common milkweed, red clover, buttonbush, blazing star, and thistles.
Habitat: Disturbed and open woods, foothill streamcourses, prairie waterways.
Range: Extreme southern Canada and most of the continental United States except the Great Basin and west Texas; northern Mexico.
Conservation: Not usually required.
The Nature Conservancy Global Rank: G5 - Demonstrably secure globally, though it may be quite rare in parts of its range, especially at the periphery.
Management needs: None reported.
Opler, P. A. and G. O. Krizek. 1984. Butterflies east of the Great Plains. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 294 pages, 54 color plates. Opler, P. A. and V. Malikul. 1992. A field guide to eastern butterflies. Peterson field guide #4. Houghton-Mifflin Co., Boston. 396 pages, 48 color plates. Scott, J. A. 1986. The butterflies of North America. Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif. 583 pages, 64 color plates. Tilden, J. W. 1986. A field guide to western butterflies. Houghton-Mifflin Co., Boston, Mass. 370 pages, 23 color plates.
Author: Jane M. Struttmann
State and Regional References:
Brower, A.E. 1974. A List of the Lepidoptera of Maine - Part 1: The Macrolepidoptera. Life Sciences and Agricultural Station, Univ. of Maine at Orono. Technical Bulletin No. 66. 136 pp. Layberry, R.A., Hall, P.W. & Lafontaine, D.J., 1998. The Butterflies of Canada. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, ON. 280 pp. Opler, P.A. 1998. A field guide to eastern butterflies, revised format. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston.