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Java Performance: Using Exceptions as Intended
Exceptions in Java
Exceptions are an important part of most object-oriented languages, including the two most common languages todayC++ and Java. They provide a good way of handling errors and other exceptional situations, allowing the program to recover from an unusual incident and continue, or to quit gracefully. Java makes it especially easy by allowing an exception to be represented by an objectpossibly sub-classed from the Exception classand thus exceptions are used very widely in Java programming.
Listing 1 shows different ways of using exceptions:
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import java.lang.*; public class DivNumbers { public static void testMe(int x, int y) throws Exception { if (y == 0) throw new Exception("Dividing by zero"); } public static void main(String args[]) { try { int x = Integer.parseInt(args[0]); int y = Integer.parseInt(args[1]); testMe(x, y); System.out.println("The result is " + x/y); } catch (ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException arrEx) { System.out.println( "Usage: java DivNumbers numerator denominator"); } catch (Exception e) { System.out.println(e); } finally { System.out.println("Thank you for using me"); } } }
This example shows the implementation of a class that returns the result of division of two numbers passed on the command line. The main method invokes a private method that checks whether the denominator is zero. If so, it throws an instance of the Exception object. If the denominator is nonzero, testMe should return quietly and main should print the output of the division. Otherwise, Exception is thrown and caught by the catch clause, which uses the general case of Exception, and an error message is printed. Another interesting case is that while reading the numbers to be divided, if the user doesn't pass at least two numbers, we could run into an out-of-bounds exception while accessing args. This prompts a Usage message. Finally, the finally clause ensures that whatever we do, we would execute the "thank you" message.


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This week's episode of The GAR! Podcast includes discussion of the following:
an hour? / wrestling is never over / good month for Daniel Bryan / breakneck sport / Kingdom Rush / Godzilla 2014 / spoilers / Agents of SHIELD / Original Sin / the Black Widow / Identity Crisis / super smart Ant-Man / drummers / Ringo Starr / Keith Moon / Bono / Frank Sinatra / U2 / Motley Crue / Bon Jovi / Cher / crazy chick Mount Rushmore / Lindsey Lohan / Britney Spears / Miley Cyrus / Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac / Carmen Electra / Jenny McCarthy / Sinead O'Connor / Wendy O. Williams / The Tomorrow Show / Sean Young / Ray first / closing /
Glenn's spoiler-filled Godzilla review at Biff Bam Pop!
Glenn's SHIELD season finale review
Glenn's SHIELD reviews of the entire season
Videos (so much fun Ray had to add snarky commentary)
"Magical Mystery Tour" by the Beatles: (Ringo is awesome here)
"Love, Reign O'er Me" by The Who (best drum riff at the end of a song by Keith Moon):
"I've Got You Under My Skin" by Frank Sinatra and Bono (sadly, we can't embed it)
Bono bugging us (oh God, those hats, that ponytail…I'm not so sure we didn't commit a crime by posting this)
Motley Crue doing "Helter Skelter" (much better than Bono bugging us)
Wendy O. Williams on "The Tomorrow Show" (NSFW) (but they BLOW UP A CAR ON LIVE TV)


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Does Africa Need Telephone Poles
Eli, being Eli, has been excessively annoyed by the trolls at the Breakdown Institute. True, they are excellent trolls, whose mission in life is to demand the impossible and denigrate the possible, a tried and true tactic if your purpose is to block all progress and, indeed they do appear to be prospering.
But never mind. If you really must, go read their twitter blather. Eli enjoys trolling the trolls a bit, and you might too.
However, the real point of this post is to point out that thanks to modern progress there now are cell phones which have made it possible to erect a functioning telecommunications, entertainment, information and banking systems in very rural and very poor areas including the megaslums of third world cities. Eli would venture so far as to say that we have tools to electrify about every hut on the planet, if, by that you mean a light or two, a cell phone, and smart cell phones are pretty much mainframe computers compared to mainframe computers in the 1970s (remember the 1401 JohnM, first computer Eli ever programmed). As anybunny walking through the streets or fields knows there is all sorts of educational and entertaining stuff that can be seen through small screens and if you must have a computer there is always as Raspberry PI.
White LEDs and even compact fluorescents have brought down the amount of energy that has to be generated for lighting, and lighting is no small part of what makes life worth living (ask Abraham Lincoln) and of energy use. That Nobel Prize was well deserved. Maybe even some refrigeration. Refrigerators, insulation and compressors have become more effective and there might even be nanohelp for thermoelectrics. A small solar array, a small windmill, maybe a bigger village windmill and a couple of storage batteries is the way to the good, or at least much better, life.
Which brings Eli to the point, the point, or rather points that one can read in an IEA report on energy use and needs and Africa. In dense urban areas and even between then telephone poles carrying power from a central distribution system can be the most economical. However, Eli senses a certain optimism that in very poor areas those poles and the wires on them are going to stay up for long, a point that the report itself makes in describing oil harvesting in the Niger Delta.
Still, once you have to put up a long line to reach a small village, things change radically
and the graph on the left shows by how much. The graph on the right has a more interesting point for the Lomborg's of the world, who are claiming that Africa needs coal (like a hole in the head, sub-Saharan Africa will be hit harder by climate change than any other area, and even Tol agrees on that, as does just about every other IAM purveyor). The major cost per MWh of fossil fuel is the cost of the fuel. The amount of capital needed to build the generator is less than 5% or so. However, for solar PV, small hydro, and small wind capital costs are more than ~80% of the cost of power, operating costs are maybe the other 20%. Even now solar and wind are less expensive than fossil fuel, and they will be much less so in the future. They are orders of magnitude more deployable and not as subject to mayhem. Moreover, efficient modern lighting, telecommunications, cooling, other conveniences and necessities don't have large power draws.
That means that if anyone, are you there Bjorn, how about you Michael Shellenberger, really wanted to help Africa electrify they would be pushing investment by the developed countries to provide cheap to operate solar PV, small hydro and small wind to African communities, not coal and fossil fuel burning plants with expensive and constant fuel costs and the need of a hard to maintain electrical grid.


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So, we have news!!!!!!!!!
Sunday, June 30, 2013
Adoption is Awesome :)
So, we have news!!!!!!!!!
30 comments:
- RELH said...
What great news :)! congrats!
- Sunday, June 30, 2013 3:54:00 PM
- Sarah said...
What fabulous news!!! I have been thinking of your family and I am so excited for you!!! Praying that all goes well!
- Sunday, June 30, 2013 5:21:00 PM
- P!nky said...
Yay! Congrats lady! So happy for your sweet family!
- Sunday, June 30, 2013 7:13:00 PM
- Jenni Taylor said...
so excited for you ... will keep praying
- Sunday, June 30, 2013 7:22:00 PM
Oh, I'm tearing up for you and your sweet family! So happy for you guys. :)
- Sunday, June 30, 2013 7:58:00 PM
- Nat said...
Thats amazing news!!! So excited for you guys!!!
- Sunday, June 30, 2013 8:12:00 PM
- Amy B said...
THATS AWESOME!!!! Praying for you!
Amy Burton - Sunday, June 30, 2013 8:17:00 PM
- Mica said...
What blessed news!! I haven't been on blogger in nearly 3 months and boy was I tickled to see this as the first thing in my feed!! SO EXCITING!!
- Sunday, June 30, 2013 8:32:00 PM
- Connor & Mama said...
I'm just a random Mom that loves to follow your blog & I just want to tell you how happy I am for you & your growing family!
- Sunday, June 30, 2013 9:02:00 PM
- Jeannie said...
That is wonderful news and so exciting! Prayers for y'all and the expecting mother. Adoption is truly a wonderful thing!
The 2nd Grade Surprise - Sunday, June 30, 2013 10:13:00 PM
- Chandler said...
CONGRATULATIONS!!! I cannot think of a more deserving family, I know that you have been waiting for so long and I'm glad that things are looking up! Congrats again and good luck with the new baby :)
- Sunday, June 30, 2013 10:16:00 PM
- Jessica said...
Aww! This just gave me goosebumps! I am so happy for you! This baby is one lucky boy to be joining your amazing family! <3
- Monday, July 01, 2013 12:42:00 AM
- Jennifer Jones said...
Congratulations! Many prayers for all!!
- Monday, July 01, 2013 7:59:00 AM
- Jaimee Granberry said...
I'm so excited to read this!!!! Congratulations! Praying for a smooth process! : )
- Monday, July 01, 2013 11:44:00 AM
- Carrie said...
Such great news! I have been praying lots for you!
- Monday, July 01, 2013 6:20:00 PM
- 2beautifulboys said...
Congrats Abby! We got that same call 2 times before. It's such an amazing feeling! Congrats! For us after being matched was the hardest time--just waiting for that next phone call that she's in labor!
Are you having an open or closed adoption?
Good luck! If you ever want to chat with someone that's been through it before feel free to shoot me an email! Best wishes!
Leisha email@example.com - Monday, July 01, 2013 7:40:00 PM
- The Dursts said...
Hi Abby! I found your blog from Blair's and love reading it. How exciting for you and your family! Will be praying for you!
~Nikki - Monday, July 01, 2013 8:58:00 PM
- Lauren said...
love your news! So happy for y'all!
- Wednesday, July 03, 2013 12:09:00 AM
- sburton1130 said...
So excited for y'all! Such a blessing!!
- Thursday, July 04, 2013 2:33:00 PM
- The Dursts said...
I found your blog from Blair's and love reading it! Congrats to you and your family--how exciting!
~Nikki - Friday, July 05, 2013 9:11:00 AM
- Kerri and Lindsay said...
Hooray! Congrats Abby! Praying for your lil family and for your soon-to-be bundle of joy!!
Lindsay - Saturday, July 06, 2013 2:07:00 PM
- The Sweetest Thing said...
This is amazing news! Adoption is such a beautiful picture of God's sovereignty and master plan in adopting us as his beloved! So excited for you.
I'm your newest follower! :) Come stop by if you get a chance!
The Sweetest Thing
Follow me on Bloglovin'! - Saturday, July 13, 2013 8:40:00 AM
- Unknown said...
Abby, reading this give me chills!! It brings back the memories when my husband and I got our two phone calls about our two! It is truly a blessing! We pray for the birth mom, her family, and your family!
We are a new follower and we love your blog.
Stop by our blog to enter for a chance to win a $5 Target Gift Card!
Our K Crew Rocks - Monday, July 15, 2013 8:11:00 AM
- Sneaker Teacher said...
So happy for you! I have taught adopted students the past two years (siblings who were adopted together) and it just really warms my heart. Terrific kids adopted by amazing parents. Thinking of you!
- Thursday, July 18, 2013 12:21:00 PM
- Kendra said...
I haven't been online much this summer. Totally enjoying the sun, but I just remembered to pop in to check in on you. Woohoo!!! I am so excited for your family. Brother love! God is good!
- Monday, July 22, 2013 2:24:00 PM
- Unknown said...
God is good! Blessings and prayers to you and your family.
- Monday, July 22, 2013 9:57:00 PM
- Unknown said...
Congratulations! My husband and I have just started thinking adoption might be God's plan for us. I have so many questions and would LOVE to pick your brain! My email is firstname.lastname@example.com (please don't publish this information!). :) I would love to hear from you if you're willing to shed some light on the adoption process you experienced! And again, congratulations on your new baby!
- Saturday, July 27, 2013 10:45:00 PM
- MrsBalius said...
I am an adoptive parent as well. My prayers are with you!
Barbara - Thursday, August 01, 2013 1:42:00 AM
- Courtney @ Missthirdgrade.com said...
I love adoption stories! How beautiful! congrats
- Friday, August 09, 2013 12:01:00 AM
Have you ever watched the show, "I'm Having Their Baby?" It could possibly be too emotional to watch until you have the baby in your hands. It's VERY powerful. I cry every time!
I'm sure you've shared, but if the reason you are adopting is due to infertility, have you had your thyroid checked out? My friend went to fertility specialists, had her thyroid checked, etc... Nothing worked. Eventually she went to a new doctor and he said in order to conceive, thyroid levels need to be lower than what they say is normal. I can't remember what that number is. It might be a one?
I'm so happy for you to have this child. He is very blessed to be a part of your family! God's will is better than any plan we could come up with on our own! - Saturday, August 17, 2013 10:44:00 PM


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I'd love to tell you that I spend New Year's Eve in a glittery top, sipping a fancy drink and dancing the night away...but the reality is that we usually stick the kids in bed at 8, I put on comfy pants, eat leftover cookies, and watch a movie until I know the ball is about to drop. Then we let the dog out and go to bed. I know you are envying me right now.
So, in essence, these Pins are as much for my own inspiration as they are for yours. Enjoy!
Do you have any interesting plans on New Year's Eve this year?


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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) will hold a hearing on May 7 to consider objections filed by the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), who alleges that Amazon illegally interfered in a highly publicized unionization vote earlier this month.
In April, workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama voted not to unionize by a wide margin. According to the NLRB, just 738 workers voted to unionize compared to 1,798 workers who voted against unionization.
However, according to Insider, the RWDSU has submitted "nearly two dozen objections" to Amazon's conduct during the election and claims the company's actions prevented employees from making a "free and uncoerced exercise of choice" on unionizing.
RWDSU claims that Amazon retaliated against pro-union employees and threatened widespread layoffs and closure of the facility if the unionization effort won out. Amazon denies the claims.
According to Reuters, the NLRB says that the May 7 hearing could lead to overturning the election should the claims to prove to be true.
None of Amazon's warehouses across the country employ unionized labor, and the push in Alabama was the closest any of the company's warehouses have come to unionizing. Should the Bessemer warehouse's unionization effort prove to be successful, it could open the door for more unionization at other warehouses throughout the country.


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Robyn Mendenhall Gardner was amazed when what started off as a monthlong ab workout challenge between friends and family caught fire on the Web.
The Montana mother of eight told Shots she came across a 30-day ab fitness plan online and, after having a tough time finishing it, turned it into a Facebook event to motivate herself.
Within days, the Facebook challenge went viral. At last count, more than 2.7 million people had signed up. And Gardner's challenge attracted attention from major media outlets, including Good Morning America.
The challenge features a daily series of progressively longer sets of crunches, planks, sit ups and leg lifts. Participants have taken to the Facebook event's wall, reporting their progress and encouraging each other to stick with it. The challenge lasts through the end of June.
But, don't count on the 30-day challenge to give you the abs of Heidi Klum or Channing Tatum in a month.
Why not?
"You can't selectively burn body fat," says Dixie Stanforth, a member of the University of Texas, Austin's kinesiology faculty and the Fitness Institute of Texas who has worked as a personal trainer for 26 years. "If you could, people who chew gum would have really thin jaws."
What it will do, though, is tone the abdominal muscles, and it might serve as an exercise starting point for people who aren't otherwise very active, Stanforth and other fitness experts tell Shots.
"To become leaner, abdominal work would be a piece of that puzzle," says Brian Focht, an associate professor in the human sciences department at Ohio State University. "But you'd have to add other components — such as more well-rounded training, aerobic activity and changing dietary habits — to really lose weight."
The challenge might be too strenuous for some people. Stanforth cautions that particularly the crunches and sit-ups could be hard on a person's back. Similarly, Focht says people might need to modify the workout to suit their needs and ability levels.
Gardner, who recently lost 59 pounds, echoes a similar warning on her event page. She's careful to note that participants might need to modify the exercises or consult a doctor. She also encourages participants looking to lose weight and strengthen their core to integrate diet and additional exercise into their routine.
"Just being able to do as much as you can is an accomplishment, especially for people who haven't done a crunch or a sit-up in 20 years," she tells Shots.
Overall, she says she has been overwhelmed by the response. She says she has received thousands of messages, some from as far away as Nepal, from people seeking advice.
Gardner says she hopes the challenge helps her tone up and encourages her to continue daily ab workouts.
Indeed, for those who complete the program, Michelle Segar, director of University of Michigan's Sport, Health and Activity Research and Policy Center, says the trick is building on the success. "In general, when you ask people to do a short-term activity, you're going to get a short-term behavioral result," says Segar, who researches fitness motivation.
She suggests that participants consider ways the competition improves their daily lives. Does it give them more energy? Do they feel stronger and more confident?
Encouraged by the attention her 30-day challenge has drawn, Gardner hopes to host other challenges that focus on different muscle groups. For now, though, Gardner is working to complete the task at hand. She says she has stuck with the challenge so far, and she plans to see it through.
"How can I not be motivated now?" Gardner laughed.
Wyckoff is a writer and editor who lives in Washington, D.C.
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Eight states are filing suit against the Trump administration over its decision to allow a Texas company to publish downloadable blueprints for a 3D-printed gun, contending the hard-to-trace plastic weapons are a boon to terrorists and criminals and threaten public safety.
The suit, filed Monday in Seattle, asks a judge to block the federal government's late-June settlement with Defense Distributed, which allowed the company to make the plans available online. Officials say that 1,000 people have already downloaded blueprints for AR-15 rifles.
"I have a question for the Trump Administration: Why are you allowing dangerous criminals easy access to weapons?" Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson, a Democrat, said in a statement Monday. "These downloadable guns are unregistered and very difficult to detect, even with metal detectors, and will be available to anyone regardless of age, mental health or criminal history."
Joining the suit were Democratic attorneys general in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Maryland, New York and the District of Columbia. Separately, attorneys general in 21 states urged Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday to withdraw from the settlement with Defense Distributed, saying it "creates an imminent risk to public safety."
People can use the blueprints to manufacture a plastic gun using a 3D printer. But gun industry experts have expressed doubt that criminals would go to the trouble, since the printers needed to make the guns are very expensive, the guns themselves tend to disintegrate quickly and traditional firearms are easy to come by.
Cody Wilson, the founder of Defense Distributed, first published downloadable designs for a 3D-printed firearm in 2013. It was downloaded about 100,000 times until the State Department ordered him to cease, contending it violated federal export laws since some of the blueprints were downloaded by people outside the United States.
The State Department reversed course in late June, agreeing to allow Wilson to resume posting the blueprints. The files were published on Friday.
The company filed its own suit in Texas on Sunday, asserting that it's the victim of an "ideologically-fueled program of intimidation and harassment" that violates the company's First Amendment rights.
The company's attorney, Josh Blackman, called it an "easy case."
States are free to enact gun control measures, but "what they can't do is censor the speech of another citizen in another state, and they can't regulate the commerce of another citizen in another state when that commerce is authorized by a federal government license," Blackman said in an interview Monday. "It's a violation of the First Amendment, it's unconscionable and we're going to fight it to the very end."
Defense Distributed agreed to temporarily block Pennsylvania residents from downloading the plans after state officials went to federal court in Philadelphia on Sunday seeking an emergency order. The company said it has also blocked access to users in New Jersey and Los Angeles.
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Given that the Manchester
terrorist was a product of the interventions in
Libya and Syria, it's time to have an adult discussion about what it will take to stop
10 Ways to Reduce Terrorism
There are
10 basic principles that serious, mature people need to discuss if we want to
stop terrorism …
I. Stop Overthrowing the Moderates and Arming Crazies
If we want to stop
terrorism we should – (wait for it) – stop supporting terrorists.
Specifically, we're arming the most violent radicals in the Middle East, as
part of a really stupid geopolitical
strategy to overthrow leaders we don't like (more details below). And see this, this, this, this and this.
We're directly arming and supporting folks
who are committing summary execution, torture, kidnapping, and imposing Sharia
law at the point of the gun.
But – strangely –
we're overthrowing the moderate Arabs who
stabilized the region and denied jihadis
a foothold.
If we want to stop
terrorism, we need to stop supporting the terrorists.
II. Stop Supporting the Dictators Who Fund Terrorists
Arabia is the world's largest sponsor of
radical Islamic terrorists. The Saudis have backed ISIS and
many other brutal terrorist groups. And the most pro-ISIS tweets
allegedly come
from Saudi Arabia.
According to sworn
declarations from a 9/11 Commissioner and the Co-Chair of the Congressional
Inquiry Into 9/11, the Saudi government backed the 9/11 hijackers (see
section VII for details). And declassified documents only amplify those connections.
And the new Saudi king has ties to Al Qaeda, Bin Laden
and Islamic terrorism.
Saudi Arabia is the hotbed
of the most radical Muslim terrorists in the world: the Salafis (both ISIS
and Al Qaeda are Salafis).
And the Saudis
– with U.S. support – back the radical "madrassas" in which
Islamic radicalism was spread.
And yet the U.S. has been
supporting the Saudis militarily, with NSA intelligence and
in every other way possible for 70 years. And selling them massive amounts of arms (Trump
just agreed to sell them $110 billion worth
of arms.) And kept them off of the list
of restricted countries for immigration.
In addition, top American
terrorism experts say that U.S. support for brutal and tyrannical countries in
the Middle east – like Saudi Arabia – is one
of the top motivators for Arab terrorists.
U.S. and NATO-supported
Turkey is also massively supporting ISIS, provided chemical weapons used
in the massacre of civilians, and has been bombing ISIS' main on-the-ground enemy
– Kurdish soldiers – using its air force.
The U.S.-backed
dictatorships in Qatar and Bahrain also massively fund ISIS.
And the U.S. and Saudis are
apparently committing
repeated war crimes in Yemen … which will only fan the flames
of terrorism.
So if we stop supporting the tyrannies in
Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar and Bahrain, we'll get a two-fold reduction in
(1) We'll undermine the main terrorism supporters
And …
(2) We'll take away one of the main motivations driving terrorists: our
support for the most repressive, brutal Arab dictatorships
III. Stop Bombing and Invading When a Negotiated Settlement Is
The U.S. rejected offers by Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria to surrender …
and instead proceeded to wage war against those countries.
Security experts –
including both conservatives and liberals – agree that waging war in the Middle
East weakens national security and increases terrorism.
See this, this, this, this, this, this, this and this.
For example, James K.
Feldman – former professor of decision analysis and economics at the Air Force
Institute of Technology and the School of Advanced Airpower Studies – and other
experts say that foreign occupation is the main cause of
terrorism. University of Chicago professor Robert A. Pape – who specializes in
international security affairs – agrees.
Indeed, the leaders of
America and the UK were warned that the Iraq war would increase
terrorism … before they pulled the trigger.
peaceful deals whenever possible will drain the swamp of terrorists created by
war and invasion.
IV. Prioritize Stopping Terrorists Over Stopping the "Shia
As the actions towards
Syria by America and its allies clearly demonstrate, our
politicians are focused on curbing Russian and Iranian geopolitical influence
much more than actually stopping ISIS and other terrorists.
The U.S. has inserted
itself smack dab in the middle of
a religious war … choosing violent Sunni Muslims to
counter the influence of Iran and the influence of
Amazingly, the U.S.
military described terror attacks on the U.S. as a "small
price to pay for being a superpower":
A senior officer on the Joint Staff told State
Department counter-terrorism director Sheehan he had heard terrorist strikes characterized more than once by colleagues as a
"small price to pay for being a superpower".
If we want
to stop terrorism, we have to make it a priority.
V. Stop Imperial Conquests for Arab Oil
The U.S. has undertaken
regime change against Arab leaders we don't like for six decades. We overthrew
the leader of Syria in 1949, Iran in 1953, Iraq twice,
Afghanistan twice, Turkey, Libya … and other
oil-rich countries.
Neoconservatives planned
regime change throughout the Middle East and North Africa yet again in 1991.
Top American politicians
admit that the Iraq war was about oil, not stopping terrorism (documents
from Britain show
the same thing). Much of the war on terror is really a fight for natural gas (Or
perhaps to force the last few hold-outs into dollars and private
central banking. For example, see this email to
then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.)
We've fought the longest and most expensive wars in American history …
but we're less secure than before, and there are more terror attacks than ever (update).
Remember, Al
Qaeda wasn't even in Iraq until
the U.S. invaded that country. And the West's Iraq war directly
led to the creation of ISIS.
If we want
to stop terrorism, we have to stop overthrowing Arab leaders and invading Arab
countries to grab their oil.
VI. Stop Drone Assassinations of Innocent Civilians
And yet Trump has increased
drone strikes by 432%.
If we want
to stop creating new terrorists, we have to stop the drone strikes.
VII. Stop Torture
Top U.S. terrorism and
interrogation experts agree that torture creates more terrorists.
Indeed, the leaders of ISIS
were motivated by U.S. torture.
For example, Charlie Hebdo-murdering French terrorist Cherif Kouchi told a court in
2005 that he wasn't radical until he learned about U.S. torture at
Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
And the Secretary of Defense any
many other top military and intelligence experts say that torture doesn't do
anything to keep us safer.
If we want
to stop creating new terrorists, we have to stop torturing … permanently.
VIII. Stop Mass Surveillance
Top security experts agree
that mass surveillance makes us MORE vulnerable to
Indeed, even the NSA admits
that it's collecting too MUCH information to
stop terror attacks.
In virtually every recent
terror attack – in Boston, Paris, San Bernadino, Orlando, etc. – the
suspect was already on a terror watch list, known to authorities, previously
interviewed by the FBI, or the like. They were already
known to authorities.
Mass surveillance
simply doesn't keep us safer.
Indeed, instead of focusing on known bad guys and their associates, the
government is flooded with surveillance data from spying on everybody. So they can't do their job to stop
Stop it.
IX. Stop Covering Up 9/11
Government officials agree
that 9/11 was state-sponsored terrorism … they just disagree
on which state was responsible.
9/11 was the largest terror attack on the U.S. in history – and all of our
national security strategies are based on 9/11 – we can't stop terror until we
get to the bottom of what really happened, and which state was behind it.
X. Stop Doing It Ourselves
The director of the
National Security Agency under Ronald Reagan – Lt. General William Odom said:
By any measure the US has long
used terrorism. In '78-79 the Senate was trying to pass a law against
international terrorism – in every version they produced, the lawyers said the
US would be in violation.
(audio here).
The Washington Post reported in
The United States has long been an exporter of terrorism, according to a secret CIA analysis released Wednesday by the Web
site WikiLeaks.
Wikipedia notes:
Chomsky and Herman observed that terror was
concentrated in the U.S. sphere of influence in the Third World, and documented
terror carried out by U.S. client states in Latin America. They observed that
of ten Latin American countries that had death squads, all were U.S. client states.
They concluded that the global rise in state terror was a result of U.S. foreign
In 1991, a book edited by Alexander L. George
[the Graham H. Stuart Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Stanford
University] also argued that other Western powers sponsored terror in Third
World countries. It concluded that the U.S. and its allies were
the main supporters of terrorism throughout the world.
Indeed, the U.S. has created death squads in Latin America, Iraq and Syria.
Some in the American
military have intentionally tried to "out-terrorize the terrorists".
As Truthout notes:
Both [specialists Ethan
McCord and Josh Stieber] say they saw their mission as a plan to "out-terrorize
the terrorists," in order to make the general populace more afraid of the
Americans than they were of insurgent groups. In the interview with [Scott]
Horton, Horton pressed Stieber:
"… a fellow veteran of
yours from the same battalion has said that you guys had a standard operating
procedure, SOP, that said – and I guess this is a reaction to some EFP attacks
on y'all's Humvees and stuff that killed some guys – that from now on if a
roadside bomb goes off, IED goes off, everyone who survives the attack get out
and fire in all directions at anybody who happens to be nearby … that this was
actually an order from above. Is that correct? Can you, you know, verify that?
Stieber answered:
"Yeah, it was an order that
came from Kauzlarich himself, and it had the philosophy that, you know, as
Finkel does describe in the book, that we were under pretty constant threat,
and what he leaves out is the response to that threat. But the philosophy was
that if each time one of these roadside bombs went off where you don't know who
set it … the way we were told to respond was to open fire on anyone in the
area, with the philosophy that that would intimidate them, to be proactive in
stopping people from making these bombs …"
Terrorism is defined as:
The use of violence and
threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes.
So McCord and Stieber are
correct: this constitutes terrorism by American forces in Iraq. And American officials have admitted that
the U.S. has engaged in numerous false flag attacks.
Indeed, many top experts –
including government officials – say that America is the largest
sponsor of terror in the world … largely through the work of
the CIA. And see this.
Stop Throwing Bodies In the River
Defenders of current
government policy say: "we have to do something to
stop terrorists!"
Yes, we do
But we must also stop doing
the 10 things above which increase terrorism.
We have to stop
"throwing new bodies in the river."
But the
powers-that-be don't want to change course … they gain tremendous power and
influence through our current war on terror strategies.
For example, the
military-complex grows rich through war … so endless war is a feature – not a bug –
of our foreign policy.
Torture was about building
a false justification for war.
Mass surveillance is
about economic
and diplomatic advantage and crushing dissent.
Supporting the most radical
Muslim leaders is about oil and power …
"a small price to pay" to try to dominate the world.
A leading advisor to the
U.S. military – the Rand Corporation – released a study in 2008 called "How Terrorist Groups End: Lessons for Countering al Qa'ida".
The report confirms what experts have been saying for years: the war on terror
is actually weakening national security
(see this, this and this).
As a press release about
the study states:
"Terrorists should be perceived and described
as criminals, not holy warriors, and our analysis suggests that there is no battlefield solution to terrorism."
We, the People, have to
stand up and demand that our power-hungry leaders stop doing the things which
give them more power … but are guaranteed to increase terrorism against us, the civilian


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Trump says US should change tax law to punish NFL
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump is suggesting the U.S. change its tax laws to punish organizations like the NFL if members are "disrespecting" the national anthem or flag.
The NFL gave up its federal tax-exempt status a few years ago and now files tax returns as a taxable entity. So it's unlikely that Trump's proposal, tweeted in the early hours Tuesday, would change anything.
Trump tweeted : "Why is the NFL getting massive tax breaks while at the same time disrespecting our Anthem, Flag and Country? Change tax law!"
Trump also tweeted Tuesday that ESPN ratings have "tanked" because of Jemele Hill, the anchor suspended for making political statements on social media.
While NFL viewership is down slightly, ESPN remains among the most popular cable networks, averaging 3 million viewers in prime time. The network has suffered subscriber losses over the last few years as some viewers have moved to streaming services from cable television.
Hill, an African-American co-host of the 6 p.m. broadcast of "SportsCenter," received backlash last month after calling Trump a "white supremacist" in a series of tweets that referenced the president's comments about a deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
That comment prompted Trump to demand an apology from ESPN and White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to call for Hill's firing.
While ESPN took no formal action against Hill over the Trump comment, she did apologize to the network for the trouble her remarks had caused while standing by the tweets. ESPN cited that apology in announcing Hill's suspension Monday , saying in a statement that ESPN employees had been "reminded of how individual tweets may reflect negatively on ESPN and that such actions would have consequences."
Hill targeted Jerry Jones on Twitter on Sunday after the Dallas Cowboys owner stated that players who disrespect the flag would not play for his team. She suggested fans who disagree with Jones should boycott the team's advertisers and not buy the team's merchandise.
She clarified Monday that she wasn't calling for an NFL boycott.


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Want to automatically create cornerstone content? WPA SEO Auto Linker helps get this done. Simply create a new keyword or a new phrase. The system will link that keyword or phrase to your chosen dofollow URL. Through the settings, it is easy to finetune the workings of this plugin. For performance, it is best to make use of a caching engine.
"Using this plugin didn't just help define cornerstone content in our SEO strategy, it also increased pageviews by 18%. The average visitor spends 13 seconds more on our website." – Roelof van Doorn, technical editor at GadgetGear.nl
While our plugin has been without support for three years, we have seen a lot of similar plugins moving in. Please note we will not be adding fancy interfaces or click tracking. The reason is we want to remain the fastest tool on the market. Click tracking takes a heavy hit on your database while creating a smooth graphical interface will lead to code bloat and the security risks that come with maintaining huge heaps of code. We just don't want that.
WPA SEO Auto Linker plugin is based on the SEO Auto Links 0.5 plugin by Maarten Brakkee.
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Inspiration for SEO Smart Links originated from the Autolink plugin by Chris Lynch
This file is part of WPA SEO Auto Linker.
WPA SEO Auto Linker is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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- Upload the complete wpa-seo-auto-linker folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
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- Enjoy the automatically inserted links.
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The Flip is a simple hand-held camera with razor sharp pictures, built in software interface, and microphone and a customizable design, and is incredibly easy to use. By partnering with MTV, all content created ends up on a special MTV program and is posted MTV online as well.
To get started, 100 people were given free Flips. Users created the content and sent it in and a totally user-created media is now up and running. And media outlets across the nation are giving rave reviews to the whole idea, from The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CBS News, Entertainment Tonight, USA Today, The Washington Post, Business Week, Times, Forbes, PC World and more.
The MTV site has tons of videos out now for you to watch by clicking here. And you can learn more about The Flip and all it can do here.
The MTV site also has details on how you can watch the videos and grab your own free Flip too.
It's all up to the video makers to decide what to create and share, and as MTV says "Different themes guided them, some were open-ended, others were scavenger hunts and others were questions only they could answer. "
Some of the categories folks are using to make their short videos include:
- Worst Date
- Awake, Alive, Surprises
- News Near Me
- Last Dream I Remember
- 1:02 Thursday - This Just Happened
- Bridges, Rhinos, Chandeliers
- Share a Secret
- If I Could Change 1 Thing About The World
Here's just one sample vid, about what was making the news for one video maker:


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Groundradar Inc. specialises in the application of unique ground penetrating radar (GPR) technology to deep mineral exploration and geotechnical applications. Using Groundradar's proprietary UltraGPR technology, high resolution imaging of the sub-surface is possible to depths exceeding 80m in suitable environments.
Groundradar staff are based throughout the globe, and during the past 27 years have conducted GPR surveys in over 103 countries on six continents, in environments ranging from the jungles of Madagascar to Arctic Sweden. Each month, Groundradar conducts hundreds of kilometers of surveys in a myriad of countries for such applications as nickel laterite and bauxite exploration, alluvial paleochannel mapping, kimberlite delineations, as well as void and abandoned tunnel detection.


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What Is Encephalitis?
Encephalitis is an inflammation (swelling and irritation) of the brain. In most cases, a causes this inflammation.
Encephalitis is also called acute viral encephalitis or aseptic encephalitis.
Who Gets Encephalitis?
Encephalitis (pronounced: in-seh-fuh-LYE-tus) is a rare disease. Most cases happen in children, the elderly, and people with a weakened immune system (from HIV/AIDS, cancer, etc.).
Several thousand cases of encephalitis are reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) every year. But health experts think that many more cases happen that aren't reported because symptoms vary and can be mild.
What Are the Signs & Symptoms of Encephalitis?
Symptoms in mild cases of encephalitis usually include:
- fever
- headache
- poor appetite
- loss of energy
- a general sick feeling
Serious cases of encephalitis can cause:
- a high fever
- severe headache
- nausea and vomiting
- stiff neck
- confusion
- personality changes
- convulsions (seizures)
- problems with speech or hearing
- hallucinations
- memory loss
- drowsiness
- coma
Because encephalitis can happen during or after common viral illnesses, symptoms of these illnesses can start before encephalitis happens. But often, it appears without warning.
What Causes Encephalitis?
Three groups of viruses are common causes of encephalitis:
- Herpes viruses, such as chickenpox, EBV (Epstein-Barr virus, which causes mono), and herpes simplex (which causes cold sores).
- Viruses and other germs transmitted by insects, like West Nile virus (spread through a mosquito bite) and the germs that cause Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever (spread through tick bites).
- Viruses that cause once-common childhood infections, such as measles, mumps, and German measles. Thanks to immunizations, it's rare today for someone to develop encephalitis from these illnesses.
Less often, encephalitis can be:
- caused by an infection from , such as bacterial meningitis
- a complication of other infectious diseases like syphilis
- due to a parasite, like toxoplasmosis (found in infected cat feces) in people with weakened immune systems
In many cases, the cause of encephalitis isn't known.
Is Encephalitis Contagious?
Brain inflammation itself is not contagious. But the viruses that cause encephalitis can be. Of course, getting a virus does not mean that someone will develop encephalitis.
How Is Encephalitis Diagnosed?
Doctors use several tests to diagnose encephalitis, including:
- imaging tests, such as computed tomography (CT) scans or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), to check the brain for swelling, bleeding, or other problems
- electroencephalogram (EEG), which records the electrical signals in the brain, to check for unusual brain waves
- blood tests to look for bacteria or viruses in the blood. These also can show if the body is making antibodies (specific proteins that fight infection) in response to a germ
- lumbar puncture, or spinal tap, which checks cerebrospinal fluid (the fluid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord) for signs of infection
How Is Encephalitis Treated?
Most people with encephalitis need care in a hospital, usually in an intensive care unit (ICU). Doctors will watch their blood pressure, heart rate, breathing, and body fluids to prevent further swelling of the brain.
- Antiviral drugs can treat some forms of encephalitis, such as the type caused by the herpes simplex virus.
- Corticosteroids may be used to reduce brain swelling.
- Anticonvulsants might be given to someone having seizures.
- Medicines you can buy without a prescription, like acetaminophen, can help with fever and headaches.
- Antibiotics don't work against viruses, so aren't used to treat most forms of encephalitis.
Many people with encephalitis make a full recovery. In some cases, brain swelling can cause lasting problem like learning disabilities, speech problems, hearing loss, memory loss, or lack of muscle control. Speech therapy, physical therapy, or occupational therapy can help in these cases.
How Long Does Encephalitis Last?
Most of the time, the phase of the illness (when symptoms are the most severe) lasts up to a week. Full recovery can take longer, often several weeks or months.
Can Encephalitis Be Prevented?
The best way to prevent encephalitis is to avoid getting infected with the viruses or other germs that can cause it. Regular hand washing will help limit the spread of some of these germs. Staying as healthy as possible by eating a balanced diet and getting plenty of rest can help keep your immune system in shape. Vaccines are also an important way to protect people from diseases like chickenpox and measles.
In areas where viruses and other germs spread by insect bites, protect yourself by wearing long sleeves and pants and applying an insect repellent. Also, try to avoid unnecessary outdoor activities at dawn and dusk when mosquitoes are most likely to bite.
When Should I Call the Doctor?
Get medical care right away if you have any of these symptoms:
- a severe headache
- convulsions (seizures)
- stiff neck
- can't look at bright lights
- double vision
- trouble walking
- problems with speech or hearing
- trouble moving an arm or leg
- loss of sensation anywhere in the body
- sudden personality changes
- problems with memory
- drowsiness or loss of energy
- loss of consciousness (passing out)


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The Seattle Art Museum unveils a multimedia exhibit, including digital technologies that bring the artist's creations to life, creating an immersive environment that combined legacy museum pieces with cutting-edge digital works.
Something Old, Something New: NEC Projectors Connect Past and Present in Japanese Artist's First Major Self-Curated Exhibition
Quick Facts
Traditionally, when a museum hosts a special exhibit, the artist creates, and the curator curates.
But when the Seattle Art Museum convinced a globally acclaimed Japanese artist that she was the right person to curate and organize her own multimedia exhibit, including digital technologies that would bring her creations to life, the artist was up for the challenge.
The artist Tabaimo is known for her immersive and thought-provoking video installations that combine hand-drawn images with digital manipulation, and offer a critical and complex view of modern Japanese society. She has been gaining recognition in North America with exhibits at museums like the San Jose Museum of Art, so after the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) received a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to enhance collaboration with Asian scholars and artists, the museum chose Tabaimo as its second guest curator.
"This was the first time Tabaimo curated a major show, and it took a little convincing," said Xiaojin Wu, curator of Japanese and Korean art for SAM. "When I went to Japan to meet her and proposed the idea that she curate, she was not sure if she could do it, but wanted to give it a try."
Tabaimo came to view the museum's collection and conceived the concept of the exhibition – in which the museum's own works would play an important role alongside her own, and even inspire her to create new art works for the exhibit.
The Inspiration for the Exhibit
Tabaimo decided to organize the exhibit around the concept of utsushi, which refers to the emulation of a master artist's work as a way to understand their technique – but she gave this idea a twist, even creating a word to describe the state of being utsushi'd: utsutsushi, which combines utsushi with utsutsu ("reality; things that exist in the world"). Her interest in the concept of utsushi comes from her mother, a noted ceramicist who in particular admires Ogata Kenzan, a Japanese artist from several centuries ago."
Tabaimo took this concept and gave it an almost modern definition," Wu said. "It's not easy to explain or understand. Tabaimo believes that if a work of art can connect the past and future through the present, you can call that work utsushi. So in a sense, what she is trying to do in this exhibition is to connect the past – our collection – to the future, through her present work."
To organize the exhibition, Tabaimo used four of her existing works, but also created four new works after studying SAM's collection."
Sometimes when a museum has a special exhibit, it will commission the artist to create a new work, but we didn't commission her, so no one expected this," Wu said. "She created four within a year, which was remarkable. She probably broke her own record."
The four new works respond to and incorporate art objects from SAM's collection into Tabaimo's video installations – which meant that SAM's AV and design team had to start from scratch for much of the installation.
Creating the Exhibit
Many of Tabaimo's works incorporate digital projectors. For this exhibit, she wanted to use her preferred projector supplier, NEC Display Solutions."
Tabaimo knows NEC projectors very well and has been using them for years," Wu said. "She selected the ones she wanted for this exhibit, and gave us the specs and model numbers for the projectors she wanted for each piece. She already had in mind which NEC projectors would work well for her works."
After the conception and art creation stages, Tabaimo began working with museum staff to create the exhibition space."
All her video installations require some sort of buildout, and they can be very complex for large-scale works," Wu said. "SAM's Asian Art Museum is in an Art Deco building from 1933, so she understood there were limitations to the building – we couldn't suspend projectors from the ceiling because they can't bear much weight, for example. There were lots of things to overcome to make it the way she wanted."
The museum's AV and design team also consulted with the San Jose Museum of Art design team to talk through some of the challenges involved in Tabaimo's installations.
"We went down there and got an idea of what worked for them and what didn't, which was really helpful," said Kevin Higinbotham, manager of audiovisual services for SAM. "We got a sense of what it needed to look like before it started, and because her work uses interesting geometry in the space, it's more technical than most video artists' work."
The four existing works already had detailed drawings that included installation specs, so those spaces just needed to be built, but Higinbotham said the new works took some experimentation and a bit of trial and error to create their spaces."
We had to move things around quite a bit, which is pretty standard with new works," he said. "When an artist creates something brandnew, until you get it up in the space, you don't know what it will look like. Plus, Tabaimo was actually animating the works onsite while at the museum by projecting a grid onto a wall, marking grid notations on the computer, and then re-editing the video to match the geometry of the walls – even up until the exhibit opened."
To account for the aging building, the installation team added buildouts like false walls and shelving to come up with places to set the projectors at the correct angles.
"Tabaimo uses a forced perspective, with the artwork angled in a specific way, and the projectors will match that angle," Higinbotham said. "One thing we had to do is get specific projectors from NEC designed for vertical images, because most projectors will burn out if you run them vertically, but NEC has a number of projectors that will
function vertically."
Higinbotham's entire team, Tabaimo, Tabaimo's studio manager and one of her techs from Japan collaborated to get the space built and outfitted in time for the November 2016 opening of the exhibit, working right up until the eleventh hour to make sure everything was perfect.
"It took quite a bit of work and teamwork to figure out, and the exhibition was only ready in the morning of the press preview, but we made it," Wu said.
The Exhibit
The exhibit occupied half of SAM's Asian Art Museum's galleries, comprising approximately 6,000 feet divided into six galleries, with eight video works juxtaposed with historic works selected from the museum's permanent collection.
One SAM-inspired work, "Two," used a pair of 16th-century Chinese cabinets and an NEC NP-PA571W projector with an NEC NP12ZL lens to create a multilayered image.
The real cabinets were placed on one side of a translucent screen, with animated video projected onto the other side of the screen scaled to exactly match the real, physical cabinets, as if they were a shadow – but the video adds a hallucinatory element when revealing the contents of the cabinets as Tabaimo imagined them.
Tabaimo took inspiration from SAM's 1857 Hiroshige woodblock print for "The Obscuring Moon," which used an NEC NP-PA571W projector and NEC NP30ZL lens to project imagery like writhing octopus arms onto a custom buildout that includes two angled walls.
"Even with just one projector, you get a 3-D image – you feel like you're in a room, you see a door open and close," Wu said.
Wu said that the show was a popular – and thought-provoking – feature in the Asian art museum.
"Her work is not as easily accessible as other Japanese contemporary video work, so whenever I took a group through, they would tell me how much more they understood it with me guiding them versus seeing it on their own," Wu said. "She is very meticulous and puts a lot of thought into her work, but until it's pointed out, you might not see it, so it was a joy for me to walk people through and point out the details."
Wu added that the show would have been challenging for SAM to put together without NEC's support.
"Without them, this show would have been much more difficult to mount," she said.


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Located in Ormond Beach, Florida, and serving the greater Central and North Florida area, the law firm of Johnson & Gilbert, P.A. is determined to help those with personal injuries, work injuries and disabilities get the compensation/benefits they need and deserve. Our goal is to work with you and after proper, thorough investigation, determine what legal options are available and the best way to move your claim toward a successful resolution. When you work with us and our experienced staff, you will get clear, down-to-earth advice that will help guide you through this difficult time in your life. Understanding your case, and the laws that govern it, will help alleviate some of the anxiety and stress that you may feel as a result of your claim. Our philosophy is and always has been that although you may not need an attorney, you certainly need to know your legal rights.
Our law practice focuses on Florida-based Car Accidents, Motorcycle Accidents, Workers' Compensation, and Social Security cases. We have the knowledge, the experience, and the resources to investigate the facts of your case and prepare a strategy for a successful resolution. When you are injured or you are attempting to obtain Social Security Disability benefits, you can quickly find yourself becoming stressed and overwhelmed by the complexities involved with your case. This is especially true when you are struggling to keep up with your mounting bills due to your injuries or disabilities. Let our experience go to work for you. You will have peace of mind in knowing that your case is being handled by professionals whose goal is seeing that you are compensated for your injuries and that you are receiving all the benefits to which you are entitled.
Do not rely on insurance adjusters or the Social Security Administration to tell you whether you have a legitimate claim. Often times your claims are denied based on minor technicalities and it is assumed since you are unrepresented that you will not pursue it. Arm yourself with a professional team that understands the law and knows how to maneuver your case through the legal system. Our knowledge and experience will help you make informed decisions involving your case and will greatly improve the chances for a successful outcome.
These are examples of cases that happen every day in Florida:
- The Winter Haven News Chief reports three car accidents in Polk County over one weekend, each of which caused injuries to multiple passengers.
- The Daytona Beach News-Journal reports a fatal motorcycle accident in Ormond Beach when a car failed to give the motorcyclist the right of way at an intersection.
- The St. Petersburg Times reports that a man with a degenerative disc disease had his claim wrongfully denied by the Social Security Administration (SSA) and was forced to go to court two years later in order to prove his case. In the interim, he has struggled to pay his rent and support his family.
At Johnson & Gilbert, we will ensure that you fully understand the workings of your case and that if warranted, it is pursued to the fullest extent of the law.
If you have been injured in a car or motorcycle accident, or if you have been unfairly denied Florida Workers' Compensation or Social Security benefits, contact us today toll free at 1-(800) 556-8890. Even if you aren't sure whether you have a strong case or even need a lawyer, be sure you know your legal rights.
The attorneys and staff at Johnson & Gilbert, P.A. are genuinely concerned for the well being of their clients. We frequently help with your continuing legal needs long after your case is resolved. If we are unable to assist you or a loved one, we will usually provide a reference to another qualified and trustworthy attorney who can.
Johnson & Gilbert, P.A. is currently accepting clients that have been injured in automobile accidents caused by the negligence of others. Car accidents can cause a wide variety of injuries, including whiplash, broken bones, spine injuries, concussions, brain damage, amputation, paralysis, or even death. Regardless of the severity of your injuries, it is important to work towards a resolution that will take into consideration your needs for the rest of your life. If you have been injured in an accident, call us for a free consultation.
Unfortunately, injuries in motorcycle accidents are frequently, more severe than in a typical car accident. We see this far to often, especially during Daytona Beach Bike Week and Biketoberfest. Although many people come to our area to enjoy these events, as the number of attendees increases, sadly, so does the number of accidents and fatalities. We are committed to representing injured riders and family members who have lost a loved one.
Injuries at work can often have a drastic impact on your relationship with your employer and your ability to pay your bills while you recover. Unfortunately, this is often complicated by the workers' compensation insurance company's (or your employer's) denial of benefits. The law is complex and employer/carriers use this to its advantage. You may not always need a lawyer, but you do need to know your legal rights.
If you believe you are entitled to social security benefits, chances are you are suffering, physically, emotionally and financially. The process of obtaining Social Security Benefits is time consuming and can be complicated and very confusing and frustrating. At Johnson & Gilbert, P.A., we can help you determine whether you are likely to be found disabled under the Social Security Rules and Regulations and what benefits you may be eligible for. Call and let us put our experience to work and help you with this time consuming and complex process.
Johnson & Gilbert, PA, is located in Ormond Beach and serves the following Florida counties, cities, and towns:
In Volusia County: Daytona Beach, Port Orange, Ormond Beach, Holly Hill, Deland, Deltona, New Smyrna Beach, Edgewater, Oak Hill, Enterprise, Allandale, Daytona Beach Shores, DeBary, Deleon Springs, Deltona Lakes, Glenwood, Lake Helen, Ormond by the Sea, Pierson, Ponce Inlet, Wilbur by the Sea. In Flagler County: Palm Coast, Flagler Beach, Bunnell, Marineland, Beverly Beach. In Putnam County: Palatka, Interlachen, Crescent City, East Palatka, Florahome, Pomona Park, San Mateo, Satsuma. In Seminole County: Sanford, Altamonte Springs, Longwood, Winter Springs, Casselberry, Forest City, Heathrow, Lake Mary, Lake Monroe, Oviedo. In Lake County: Astor, Fruitland Park, Grand Island, Groveland, Howey-in-the-Hills, Lady Lake, Lake Jem, Leesburg, Mascotte, Minneola, Monteverde, Mt. Dora, Mt. Plymouth, Paisley, Sorento, Tavares, The Villages, Umatilla, Yalaha. In Orange County: Orlando, Winter Park, Maitland, Altoona, Apopka, Bay Lake, Christmas, Eatonville, Edgewood, Goldenrod, Gotha, Lake Buena Vista, McCoy AFB, Oakland, Ocoee, Plymouth, Tangerine, Windermere, Winter Garden, Zellwood. In St Johns County: St. Augustine, Elkton, Hasting, Ponte Vedra Beach, St. Augustine Beach. In Brevard County: Cocoa, Cocoa Beach, Satellite Beach, Melbourne, Mims, Cape Canaveral, Eau Gallie, Grant, Indian Harbour Beach, Indian River City, Kennedy Space Center, Melbourne Beach, Melbourne Village, Palm Bay, Patrick AFB, Rockledge, Scottsmoor, Sharpes, West Melbourne. In Osceola County: Kissimmee, St. Cloud, Celebration. In Polk County: Auburndale, Avon Park, Bartow, Davenport, Dundee, Eagle Lake, Eaton Park, Fedhaven, Frostproof, Ft. Meade, Haines City, Highland Park, Hillcrest Heights, Homeland, Indian Lakes Estate, Lake Alfred, Lake Hamilton, Lake Wales, Lakeland, Mulberry, Nichols, Nocatee, Polk City, Waverly, Winter Haven In Duval County: Jacksonville, Arlington, Atlantic Beach, Cecil Field, Ft. George, Harbor Oaks, Jacksonville Beach, Mandarin, Neptune Beach, South Jacksonville. In Marion County: Ocala, Anthony, Belleview, Candler, Citra, Dunnellon, Ft. McCoy, Lowell, McIntosh, Ocklawaha, Orange Lake, Orange Springs, Salt Springs, Silver Springs, Sparr, Summerfield, Weirsdale. In Alachua County: Gainesville, Alachua, Archer, Earleton, Hawthorne, High Springs, La Crosse, Melrose, Newberry, Waldo.


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The Advanced Forensics File format 4 was originally designed and published in "Extending the advanced forensic format to accommodate multiple data sources, logical evidence, arbitrary information and forensic workflow" M.I. Cohen, Simson Garfinkel and Bradley Schatz, digital investigation 6 (2009) S57–S68.
The format is an open source format used for the storage of digital evidence and data.
The original paper was released with an earlier implementation written in python. This project is a complete open source re-implementation for a general purpose AFF4 library.
Not all features described in the paper are currently supported. The following features are currently supported:
What is not yet supported:
The AFF4 imaging technology is utilized in the Pmem suite of memory acquisition tools from version 2.0 upwards. This means that the Pmem imagers are standard AFF4 imagers so they can also be used to acquire disks and logical files as well.
For now please download the Pmem imagers for all supported OS platforms in order to test and evaluate the AFF4 imaging technology.
This is not an official Google product (experimental or otherwise), it is just code that happens to be owned by Google.


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2. Pennsylvania 1805 Coroner, Armstrong County
3. Pennsylvania 1805 Coroner, Chester County
4. Pennsylvania 1805 Coroner, Fayette County
5. Pennsylvania 1805 Coroner, Philadelphia City and Philadelphia County
6. Pennsylvania 1806 Coroner, Bucks County
7. Pennsylvania 1806 Coroner, Lancaster County
8. Pennsylvania 1807 Coroner, Bedford County
9. Pennsylvania 1811 Coroner, Berks County
10. Pennsylvania 1811 Coroner, Philadelphia City and Philadelphia County
11. Pennsylvania 1815 Coroner, Columbia County
12. Pennsylvania 1820 Coroner, Philadelphia City and Philadelphia County
13. Pennsylvania 1823 Coroner, Franklin County
Although it generally disappears from the narratives of American history once the seat of national government departs Philadelphia in 1800, Pennsylvania was quite simply the ground floor of American democracy. The Keystone State produced no Jeffersons or Adamses, and its only president (James Buchanan) ranks comfortably in the bottom three, but this was the state where democratic politics, American-style, was invented. Given that Pennsylvania had early America's least stratified, most ethnically diverse electorate and most consistently liberal suffrage requirements, it should come as no surprise that such long-term features of American democracy as the political party, the presidential campaign, the nominating convention, and the partisan newspaper all started here.
Pennsylvania's fractious political history begins with the conflict over the state's ultraradical constitution of 1776. Written under the direct influence of Thomas Paine and the plebeian and middle-class militiamen who spearheaded Pennsylvania's belated independence movement, the 1776 constitution dispensed with the classical republican ideal of "mixed government" and vested nearly all power in a unicameral assembly elected under conditions of almost universal white manhood suffrage. That is, all "freemen" aged twenty-one or older who paid taxes or whose father paid taxes could vote and hold office. The legislature was constitutionally required to meet with its doors open to the public at all times. There was no upper house to check the people's annually elected representatives, and a chief executive called the president was elected by the legislature and had no veto power. The constitution would be enforced not by unelected judges but, rather, by a popularly elected Council of Censors that would convene to revise the constitution every seven years.
Bitter divisions over the constitution of 1776 and its radically democratic ideals defined the first party battle in Pennsylvania state politics and formed the backdrop for all further developments, as Philadelphia radicals and their rural allies tried to keep the state's uniquely democratic and egalitarian revolutionary legacy alive and others tried to curb or squelch it. No one dared to attack democracy or equality in principle, but many of Philadelphia's most prominent and erudite men, including Dr. Benjamin Rush, Judge James Wilson, and Chief Justice Thomas McKean, became harsh detractors of the 1776 constitution, pushing for a more conservative and conventional government with a bicameral legislature, a stronger executive, and a more independent judiciary. After more than a decade of opposition, these so-called Republicans finally succeeded in getting the new state constitution they wanted in 1790; many were also strong supporters of the new, less democratic federal Constitution that was written in Philadelphia. The radicals who defended the original document were known as Constitutionalists, a confusing appellation because many Pennsylvania Constitutionalists leaned against the generally antidemocratic federal Constitution.
The 1790 constitution created an assembly with annual terms and a state Senate whose members were elected to four-year terms. The old state "presidency" was replaced with a governor who was elected by the people every three years and had both the authority to veto legislation and the power to appoint an extensive array of state and county officials, right down to local recorders of deeds and justices of the peace. Judges in the expanded state court system were appointed by the governor and served for life ("during good behavior"). Although many Constitutionalists continued to prefer the old system, conflicts over the state government died down during the nine-year governorship of Thomas Mifflin, a popular war hero generally supported by all factions. Increasingly, over Mifflin's term, the real power accumulated in the hands of his right-hand man, Secretary of the Commonwealth Alexander J. Dallas, an ambitious lawyer recently emigrated from Jamaica.
Dallas was deeply involved in the emergence of the new political division that emerged in the 1790s, this time stemming from Philadelphia's status as the seat of national government. The "national" political controversies that broke out in the Cabinet and the Congress between Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and their followers were also local ones in Philadelphia as they spilled out into the streets and the press. The nascent national political parties (the Federalists who supported Hamilton's policies and thought of themselves more as friends of the government than as a party per se, and the Jeffersonian opposition who usually referred to themselves as Republicans but were often referred to by their enemies as "democrats or "Jacobins") battled over Philadelphia's Bank of the United States and fought for public approbation through Philadelphia newspapers that circulated nationally. When Citizen Edmond Genêt arrived and sparked the formation of the Democratic-Republican Societies, Philadelphia had the largest and most active ones.
As the epicenter of national political conflict, Philadelphia, followed by the rest of the state, led the nation in the development of party politics. Republican John Swanwick won one of the first clearly party-contested congressional elections in 1794, and a coterie of Philadelphians led by Clerk of the House of Representatives John Beckley and the Aurora newspaper mounted the first serious popular presidential campaign, for Thomas Jefferson, in 1796, carrying the state and almost the election for the opposition leader.
The Jeffersonian Republicans finally took power in the state in 1799, when Chief Justice McKean beat Federalist James Ross of Pittsburgh in the race to succeed Mifflin. A key factor in McKean's victory was the swing of many German Lutheran voters away from the Federalists in the wake of the offensive Direct Tax of 1798 (called the "Window Tax" for the one of the methods that assessors used to determine a taxpayer's wealth) and the overzealous, xenophobic suppression of Fries's Rebellion in the German areas of eastern Pennsylvania.
The Federalists remained competitive in certain areas of the state (especially the southeast) through the 1820s, but after 1799 they were reduced to playing spoiler or kingmaker in statewide elections. In 1800, Federalists in the state Senate prevented Pennsylvania from holding a popular presidential election at all, so certain were they of losing again. Luckily for the Federalists, the majority Republicans (increasingly either adding "Democratic" to their name after 1800 or switching to "Democrat") were plagued by factionalism. The old divide between Constitutionalists and Republicans reemerged with a vengeance after 1802, as radicals led by Aurora editor and Irish political refugee William Duane and Congressman Michael Leib clashed with McKean over impeachments and reforms of the court system and constitution designed to help more litigants avoid the need to hire lawyers, make judges more democratically accountable, and reduce the governor's appointment powers. McKean's vetoes of the reform legislation and his widely reported remarks about the "clodpoles and ignoramuses" who supported the reforms led to an 1805 reelection challenge by Speaker of the House Simon Snyder, a German of rural working-class roots who became the state's most popular political figure in the early nineteenth century. McKean barely won the 1805 election, but only by gaining support from Federalists and a breakaway faction of so-called "Constitutional Republicans." They were led by Alexander Dallas and consisted mostly of wealthier men, attorneys, and officeholders grown conservative in power and restive under the "tyranny of printers" such as Duane. The Aurora labeled the schismatics Quids, meaning "a hermaphrodite thing, partaking of two characters, and yet having neither!"
In 1808, all the Republicans united behind Snyder, who trounced James Ross in a campaign managed by Snyder's friend, editor John Binns of the Democratic Press, an immigrant radical like Duane but much more ideologically flexible. Relations cooled quickly between Duane's Philadelphia radicals and the more rural Snyderites, amid disagreements over the Republican establishment's increasing enthusiasm for banks and other economic development schemes that "Old School" Democrats such as Duane considered corrupt unless tightly controlled. The "New School" of Binns's Snyderites, allied with Dallas's Quids, dominated the state during most of the War of 1812 era and won recognition from the James Madison administration as the regular Democratic-Republican organization in Pennsylvania. The Old School men even cooperated with certain Federalists for a time in efforts to replace Madison with De Witt Clinton in the presidential election of 1812. Trying to break the New School's stranglehold on offices and patronage, Duane's Old School repeatedly challenged the prevailing legislative caucus system of nominating candidates for high office. The caucus was especially aberrant in Pennsylvania, where local public meetings had been the major form of party nominations since the 1790s.
The Old School Democrats' anti-caucus campaign finally met with some success after the War of 1812 during the misnamed Era of Good Feeling. A group of Old School men and disaffected Federalists meeting as "Independent Republicans" held Pennsylvania's first two-party conventions at Carlisle in 1816 and 1817 and nominated Joseph Hiester, who narrowly lost to the New School's man William Findlay, state treasurer under Snyder but a creature of the state's burgeoning business interests. Financial scandals in Findlay's administration, together with the Panic of 1819, enabled the Old School to run Hiester successfully in 1820. Thanks to a generational turnover in leadership, the regular, New School Democrats were increasingly known as the "Family" party after the three Philadelphia brothers-in-law who were its leaders: Postmaster Richard Bache, leading attorney Thomas Sergeant, and Alexander Dallas's son, future Vice President George Mifflin Dallas.
Left leaderless by Hiester's distaste for party politicking and Duane's financial collapse, the remnants of the Old School (including Duane's son and other Aurora veterans) could not prevent the Family's return to power in 1823. Yet that same year, they were crucial to the surprise launch of Andrew Jackson's presidential candidacy by a political convention in Harrisburg that upset the Family's plan to throw the state behind John C. Calhoun. The next decade saw a vicious factional battle for the mantle of Pennsylvania Jacksonianism that the Family, or "Eleventh-Hour Men," eventually won.
- Baumann, Roland M.
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Early Western Pennsylvania Politics. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1938. - Higginbotham, Sanford W.
The Keystone in the Democratic Arch: Pennsylvania Politics, 1800–1816. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1952. - Kehl, James A.
Ill Feeling in the Era of Good Feeling: Western Pennsylvania Political Battles, 1815–1825. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1956. - Keller, Kenneth W.
"Cultural Conflict in Early Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania Politics." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 110 (1986): 509–530. - Klein, Philip Shriver.
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"The Democratic Societies of Philadelphia and the Limits of the American Public Sphere, Circa 1793–1795." William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series 58(3) (July 2001): 615–636. - Miller, Randall M. and William Pencak, eds.
Pennsylvania: A History of the Commonwealth. University Park and Harrisburg: Pennsylvania State University Press and Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 2002. (Columbus: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 1941-44). - Newman, Paul Douglas.
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"William Duane, Revolutionary Editor." Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1968. - Sapio, Victor A.
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Republican splinter parties
New Jersey 1820: Several newspapers, including the Elizabeth-Town Gazette and the True American (Philadelphia) listed a separate ticket of dissident Republicans for the U.S. House of Representatives race in New Jersey in 1820, referred to as the "Anti-Caucus" ticket. Nominations for At Large candidates on a state wide level could often cause problems. Rotation of candidates, or lack thereof, from different regions/counties would sometimes cause dissension, and occasionally regional candidates, often an incumbent who had been dropped from the list, would be set up in opposition. As the Federalist Party declined, the process of country meetings, conventions and the Legislative caucus to nominate candidates came under increased criticism and with less party competition the idea of a more open and balanced method of selecting candidates was becoming a political issue.
Adamite / Crawford:
While many tickets would grow up around support for one person (such as Clintonians in New York or Snyderites in Pennsylvania), the affiliations of many candidates in various elections in 1823 and 1824 were based around which candidate for President in 1824 the individual candidate was supporting. While those supporters of Andrew Jackson would become the mainstream part of the Republican Party as it transitioned into the Democratic Party, there were also the followers of John Quincy Adams, many of whom would soon form the basis for, first the National Republican Party, then its successor, the Whig Party. The followers of William H. Crawford were also identified, though they never coalesced into any sort of larger organization and mostly existed in Georgia, Crawford's home state, though they found support among the
Friends of Reform:
In 1820, these were Republican candidates in Pennsylvania, mostly in Bucks County, opposed to the present administration.
New School / New School Republican / Old School / Old School Democrat / Old School Republican:
Used in Pennsylvania throughout the 1810's. They were often in opposition to the Constitutionalists. (See also: Crucible of American Democracy: The Struggle to Fuse Egalitarianism and Capitalism in Jeffersonian Pennsylvania. Andrew Shankman. University Press of Kansas. 2004.)
Opposition Republican:
Used in several states over the course of over 20 years.
"Prior to the election of 1802 there had been minor divisions based largely upon personal jealousies and the quest for offices; and a vague dissatisfaction with the Governor had developed. A new cause of dissension became prominent in 1803 and 1804 as the legislature began to attempt modifications in the judicial system and to use its powers of impeachment against the judges of the State courts. McKean's opposition to most of these measures alienated many Republicans; and some of his supporters sought Federalist aid to redress the political balance." (The Keystone in the Democratic Arch: Pennsylvania Politics, 1800-1816. Sanford W. Higginbotham. 1952. p 49)
"The election of 1803 found the Republican splits becoming deeper and more widespread. The quarrel over Federal patronage in Philadelphia nearly reached the point of an open breach, while the Rising Sun movement against Leib gained added strength in Philadelphia County. In Lancaster some of the State officeholders made an unsuccessful attempt to organize a third party movement in support of McKean. The Federalists for the most part abandoned active politics, although the dissident Republican factions courted their aid." (Higginbotham, p 58)
Used in several states over the course of over 20 years.
In Rhode Island in 1807 and 1808 this was a splinter party formed by a combination of those republicans who were supporters of Governor James Fenner, combined with Federalists.
In New Jersey, for several years, from 1807 through 1822, this was a quasi-merged group between Federalists and Republicans, similar to the Quids in Pennsylvania.
Coroner: An officer of a county, district or municipality (formally also of the royal household), originally charged with maintaining the rights of the private property of the crown; in modern times his chief function is to hold inquests on the bodies of those supposed to have died by violence or accident.
Oxford English Dictionary
1787 - 1824: Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennyslvania
Office Scope: County / District (some combined counties within Ohio and Pennsylvania)
Role Scope: County / District (some combined counties within Ohio and Pennsylvania)


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Low Down Payment Purchase Options
For some home buyers, the decision of how much money to use as a down payment can be very confusing and hard.
The route for each buyer or investor really does depend on their situation and personal preferences. The summary below reviews four issues that all home buyers and investors should consider about down payment:
- Down payment options
- Cost of lower down payments
- Benefits of lower down payments
- Personal considerations
The information provided below is for the purpose of provoking thought and careful consideration about different financing programs available. It is not meant to steer you toward one particular program. It is merely an exposition of the options to consider when purchasing a home or investment property.
Down Payment Options
The "Down Payment Requirements" chapter reviews the minimum down payment needs for conforming loans, as well as some of the available alternatives with non-conventional (FHA loans) programs.
For example, you can purchase a single-family home or condominium with as little as 3.5% down payment. But there is a price for lower down payments on conforming loans: mortgage insurance (often called PMI, private mortgage insurance).
Mortgage insurance is required when the conforming loan amount is MORE than 80% of the purchase price (practical translation: down payment is less than 20%). Also, the lower the down payment, the higher the premium ratio charged.
Military veterans who qualify for a VA loan have the easiest route to buying a home with the need for no money down. VA loans can provide up to 100% financing for qualified military personnel and veterans. There are also non-conforming mortgage loan programs available that allow for 80/20 set-ups, which allow borrowers to obtain a second mortgage to cover the 20% down payment.
Even with less than less than perfect income and credit we may have a program that fits your needs.
Cost of a Lower Down Payment
Low or no down payment programs have two primary costs:
- Higher interest rates
- Higher mortgage insurance premiums.
The downside of a small down payment, whether you are using a conforming loan or a non-conforming program, is that you will need to pay higher interest rates and mortgage insurance.
Mortgage insurance is calculated against the loan amount, so you get hit with a double-whammy. Lower down payment means a higher loan amount and a higher mortgage insurance rate.
Mortgage insurance can be removed once sufficient equity is produced. So if the property shows at least 20% equity in a few years, the mortgage insurance can be refinanced away.
A related burden of lower down payments is obviously higher loan amounts, which translates into higher monthly payments.
Consider, for example, the purchase of a $100,000 condominium with market interest rates of 6.500%.
- With a 5% down payment, the loan of $95,000 would have monthly payments of $600.46.
- However, a 10% down payment would decrease the loan amount to $90,000 and the payment to only $568.86 per month.
During the first few years of the mortgage loan, the bulk of your monthly payments are for interest—which is normally tax-deductible. So you actually get a bit of your monthly payments back at the end of the year in the form of tax deductions.
Benefits of Lower Down Payments
Though the disadvantages of low down payments seem serious, there are also advantages. Take time to weigh the two and assess which is the best for you.
The chief benefits of lower down payment include the following:
- Increased liquidity.
- Higher rate of return. You property's appreciation will be the same whether you put 3%, 5% or 20% down payment. In fact, your rate of return actually decreases as you make a larger down payment, as discussed below.
- Opportunity cost. In some cases, the smart investor can make more money from available cash by placing it in other investments.
Personal Consideration
How much to put down should be carefully thought out. You must make your own personal calculation, of the monthly payment that you can afford. Obviously, the lender will qualify you for a certain level, based on your income. But that qualification level is often different from the level that you feel comfortable with.
Your mortgage lender may have qualified your income for a monthly mortgage payment of $1,500; however, you may feel that you can realistically afford only $1,200 per month. If that is the case, you must lower the loan amount by increasing the down payment or finding a less expensive property.
Consult with your loan officer about the best situation for you, as well as ways to eliminate or minimize mortgage insurance.
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