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What's Leaving Netflix Instant: April 2017
Every month, as dozens of new titles are added to Netflix Instant's vast streaming library (with even more possibilities for your endlessly indecisive scrolling), several movies and TV shows are taken away, spirited into the expiration ether. Now's the time to stop procrastinating and do a little spring queue-cleaning by watching some of these titles before they disappear — possibly for good. Read on for a full list of what's expiring from Netflix Instant in April.
There's a lot of good stuff leaving Netflix next month — most notably Joss Whedon's TV shows and all nine seasons of The X-Files, which means you only have eight days to become a total recluse and cut off all ties with your friends and family and binge these shows into oblivion. (That might just be a note to self.)
April 1
Ally McBeal: Seasons 1-5
Angel: Seasons 1–5
Better Off Ted: Season 1
Barbershop 2: Back in Business
Bones: Seasons 1-4
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Seasons 1-7
Dollhouse: Season 1
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
House, M.D.: Seasons 1-8
Lie to Me: Season 1
Menace II Society
Resident Evil: Extinction
Roswell: Seasons 1-3
Snow Day
Stomp the Yard
Superman II
Superman III
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Superman Returns
Superman: The Movie
The Agony and the Ecstasy
The Boys from Brazil
The Escapist
The Princess Bride
The Riches: Seasons 1-2
The Usual Suspects
The X-Files: Seasons 1-9
Vanilla Sky
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Collateral Damage
The Circle
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Legit: Season 2
Wilfred: Season 4
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Legit: Season 1
Flower Girl
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The Lazarus Effect
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A Fantastic Fear of Everything
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American Dad! Season 6
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The Nutty Professor 2: Facing the Fear
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Sometimes we have no choice, we work till dawn. When you work all night you become dizzy and your eyes hurt because you can't take any breaks.
SANTA'S WORKSHOP takes you to the real world of China's toy factories. Workers tell us about long working hours, low wages, and dangerous work places.
Those who protest or try to organize trade unions risk imprisonment. Low labor costs attract more and more companies to China. Today more than 75% of our toys are made in China. But this industry takes its toll on the workers and on the environment.
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Mushrooms May Reduce Risk of Cognitive Decline
A team from the Department of Psychological Medicine and Department of Biochemistry at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine has found that seniors who consume more than two standard portions of mushrooms weekly may have 50 per cent reduced odds of having mild cognitive impairment (MCI).
A portion was defined as three quarters of a cup of cooked mushrooms with an average weight of around 150 grams. Two portions would be equivalent to approximately half a plate. While the portion sizes act as a guideline, it was shown that even one small portion of mushrooms a week may still be beneficial to reduce chances of MCI.
"This correlation is surprising and encouraging. It seems that a commonly available single ingredient could have a dramatic effect on cognitive decline," said Assistant Professor Feng Lei, who is from NUS Psychological Medicine, and the lead author of this work.
The six-year study, which was conducted from 2011 to 2017, collected data from more than 600 Chinese seniors over the age of 60 living in Singapore. The study was carried out with support from the Life Sciences Institute and the Mind Science Centre at NUS, as well as the Singapore Ministry of Health's National Medical Research Council. The results were published online in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease on 12 March 2019.
MCI is typically viewed as the stage between the cognitive decline of normal ageing and the more serious decline of dementia. Seniors afflicted with MCI often display some form of memory loss or forgetfulness and may also show a deficit in other cognitive functions such as language, attention, and visuospatial abilities. However, the changes can be subtle, as they do not experience the disabling cognitive deficits that affect everyday life activities, which is characteristic of Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia.
"People with MCI are still able to carry out their normal daily activities. So, what we had to determine in this study is whether these seniors had poorer performances on standard neuropsychologist tests than other people of the same age and education background," explained Asst Prof Feng. "Neuropsychological tests are specifically designed tasks that can measure the various aspects of a person's cognitive abilities. Some of the tests we used in this study were adopted from a commonly used IQ test known as the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale."
The researchers conducted extensive interviews and tests with the senior citizens to determine an accurate diagnosis. "The interview takes into account demographic information, medical history, psychological factors, and dietary habits. A nurse will measure blood pressure, weight, height, handgrip, and walking speed. They will also do a simple screen test on cognition, depression, anxiety," said Asst Prof Feng.
After this, a two-hour standard neuropsychological assessment was performed, along with a dementia rating. The overall results of these tests were discussed in depth with expert psychiatrists involved in the study to get a diagnostic consensus.
Six commonly consumed mushrooms in Singapore were referenced in the study. They were golden, oyster, shiitake and white button mushrooms, as well as dried and canned mushrooms. However, it is likely that other mushrooms not referenced would have also indicated beneficial effects.
The researchers believe the reason for the reduced prevalence of MCI in mushroom eaters may be down to a specific compound found in almost all varieties. "We're very interested in a compound called ergothioneine (ET)," said Dr Irwin Cheah, Senior Research Fellow from NUS Biochemistry. "ET is a unique antioxidant and anti-inflammatory which humans are unable to synthesise on their own. But it can be obtained from dietary sources, one of the main ones being mushrooms."
From left: Asst Prof Feng and Dr Cheah believe that eating a variety of mushrooms as part of a healthy lifestyle may significantly reduce the risk of cognitive declineAn earlier study by the team on elderly Singaporeans revealed that plasma levels of ET in participants with MCI were significantly lower than age-matched healthy individuals. The work, which was published in the journal Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications in 2016, led to the belief that a deficiency in ET may be a risk factor for neurodegeneration, and increasing ET intake through mushroom consumption might possibly promote cognitive health.
Other compounds contained within mushrooms may also be advantageous for decreasing the risk of cognitive decline. Certain hericenones, erinacines, scabronines and dictyophorines may promote the synthesis of nerve growth factors. Bioactive compounds in mushrooms may also protect the brain from neurodegeneration by inhibiting production of beta amyloid and phosphorylated tau, and acetylcholinesterase.
The potential next stage of research for the team is to perform a randomised controlled trial with the pure compound of ET and other plant-based ingredients, such as L-theanine and catechins from tea leaves, to determine the efficacy of such phytonutrients in delaying cognitive decline. Such interventional studies will lead to more robust conclusions on the causal relationship. In addition, Asst Prof Feng and his team also hope to identify other dietary factors that could be associated with healthy brain ageing and reduced risk of age-related conditions in the future.
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The Sport for Rights coalition condemns the conviction and harsh sentencing of Azerbaijani human rights defenders Leyla and Arif Yunus on 13 August by the Baku Court of Grave Crimes. After a trial marred by irregularities and due process violations, the court convicted the couple on politically motivated charges including illegal entrepreneurship, tax evasion, and fraud, and sentenced Leyla to 8.5 years in jail, and Arif to seven.
"These sentences are outrageous, and aimed purely at sanctioning the legitimate work of these two Azerbaijani human rights defenders. While the heavy sentences are no surprise, they serve to further undermine Azerbaijan's complete disregard for the international standards of fair trial and due process", said Souhayr Belhassen, FIDH Honorary President.
"The unprecedented speed with which the Yunus trial was carried out is appalling and tells us a lot about its quality. The judgment is full of inaccuracies due to a total lack of examination of the evidence provided. Violations of international standards of the right to a fair trial were obvious", declared Gerald Staberock, Secretary General of OMCT.
Leyla, the Director of the Institute for Peace and Democracy, and Arif, a historian and activist in his own right, were arrested in July and August 2014, following Leyla's public calls for a boycott of the inaugural European Games, which were held in Baku in June 2015. Sport for Rights considered them 'Prisoners of the Games. Leyla had also been working to compile a detailed list of cases of political prisoners, and was a strong advocate of fundamental freedoms, property rights, and peaceful resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
The couple have been held in separate facilities; Leyla in the Kurdakhani investigative detention unit, and Arif at the Ministry of National Security's investigative prison. Leyla reported being mistreated on several occasions, and Arif reported poor conditions. Both Leyla and Arif suffer from serious health problems, which have sharply deteriorated in detention, and have caused delays during trial proceedings, including on the day of the verdict, when Arif fainted and was attended to by a doctor. Nonetheless, the authorities resisted calls for their release on humanitarian grounds, and the court rushed to issue a verdict.
"The health situation of Leyla and Arif Yunus is extremely worrying and deserves the highest attention of the international community. Whilst we are thankful for the international attention brought to the case by some voices, we remain concerned by the lack of action of the Council of Europe and the European Union. It is clear that the climate of fear has reached a new low with these sentences and the killing of journalist Rasim Aliyev",said Ane Tusvik Bonde, Regional Manager for Eastern Europe and Caucasus of the Human Rights House Foundation (HRHF).
The Yunus' conviction takes place amidst a broader human rights crackdown in Azerbaijan, in the aftermath of the European Games and the run-up to November's parliamentary elections. The same week as the verdict in the Yunus' case, journalist Khadija Ismayilova also stood trial, facing serious jail time on politically motivated charges, and Rasim Aliyev, journalist and Chairman of the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety, died in hospital after being severely beaten. With less than three months until the parliamentary elections, the Azerbaijani authorities seem determined to continue working aggressively to silence the few critical voices left in the country.
The Sport for Rights coalition reiterates its call for the immediate and unconditional release of Leyla and Arif Yunus, as well as the other jailed journalists and human rights defenders in Azerbaijan. Sport for Rights further calls for sustained international attention to the country and increased efforts to hold the Azerbaijani regime responsible for its human rights obligations in the pre-election environment and beyond.
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Finding Peace under Pressure
- Chip Ingram Walk Thru the Bible
- Updated May 04, 2021
We're living in a "right now" world. Every day we face pressure, stress, and multiple demands. We have no peace because we're being pulled in every direction with no time to stop and evaluate objectively where we're going. We end up living from moment to moment, week to week, paycheck to paycheck. We live by the seat of our pants. We wing it. And we hope it'll work out okay.
But my concern is, living the way we live, where are we going to end up 10, 15, or 20 years from now? In the short term, we can run the rat race. We can live at a frantic pace and try to experience and accomplish everything right now. But in the long term, that's devastating. If we allow ourselves to be pulled in every direction by life's demands, ultimately we will get nowhere.
I want much better for you. I want you to end well. I want you to finish as God intended you to finish. I want your visions to become reality in your life. I want you to have a plan and a clear list of priorities about how to say yes to this and no to that, for it's the people who can say no to the good and yes to the best who finish well.
How do you balance life's demands?
First, let's look at biblical priorities. I wish I could tell you there was a book in the Bible called First Priorities, but it's just not there. Instead, we will glean them out of what are called the Twin Epistles - Colossians and Ephesians - which were written about the same time.
Ephesians was written to instruct the church how we're supposed to live our new life in Christ in a fallen, pressure-packed world. The first three chapters are doctrine; the last three are practical. Colossians was written to explain the preeminence of Christ and what it looks like to live out His prominence in every aspect of our lives. Again, the first chapters are doctrine, the last are practical. Note that after the clear doctrinal teaching, both books apply that truth to our lives in a very systematic manner, beginning with a relationship to God and then moving to relationships with others. I believe that's a divine design.
But there's something I want you to consider. Often we hear that we should put God first, family second, and so on. But life simply doesn't work that way. We can't live a "linear" life. You can't say, "I'm not going to talk to my wife until I talk with God, and I won't to talk to my kids until I've talked with my wife." There may be days when you need to spend 15 hours at work and not even see your family, or vice versa.
Instead, I believe we need to view these priorities as concentric circles, one depending on the other. The idea is that you need to be fully connected in your relationship with God so that out of that relationship will flow the love and energy to give to your mate. Then your rich, loving relationship with your mate will overflow into your children, the marketplace, your ministry, and so on.
If we fully cultivate and enrich a relationship with God, then each of the other concentric circles will benefit from the overflow of that relationship. That's what biblical priorities are all about.
But that takes time and effort. I can't give you a formula. I don't know how much time you need with God, or with your spouse and your family. You need to determine that for yourself. But I can tell you the place to begin. We all have 168 hours per week, and if you don't take control of your time, you'll never have control of your priorities.
Where does the time go?
Wasting hours is just like burning money. Those hours never come back. Give God the first minutes of your day. As you begin each day seeking to know and do God's will, it will transform you. Read from God's Word and ask Him to teach you. Pray honestly through the events that are coming in your day and you will have a grid, a means to say yes and no to things that come your way because God will speak to you.
A prioritized life was the secret of Jesus having peace under pressure and power under adversity. And as we live in a world where pressure, demands, and adversity are coming at us from every side, living under God's priorities rather than living under pressure will bring us power and peace as well.
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Stanton is proposing that the money be used to add more bike lanes, launch a bike-share program and prepare a citywide bicycle plan.
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Learning technology has its fads. One by one they are adopted by the big corporations who have one real goal: don't spend a great deal of time on training people.
In 1989, I was hired by Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) as a consultant to help improve their training which was mostly lecture based, at a training facility in St Charles, Illinois. Simultaneously, they gave Northwestern University a great deal of money enabling me to found the Institute for the Learning Sciences that tried to invent new ways of learning on the computer, and also took on ten Andersen people for two years master's degree programs with the aim that they would bring back new ways of thinking about training to Andersen.
I happened to look at Accenture's training site the other day:
I was curious what they were doing these days and wondering if I had had any effect on them. It was easy to draw two conclusions:
1- Accenture is now obsessed with the idea that all courses should last an hour and should be online. They are closing (or have already closed) the St Charles facility.
2. They learned exactly one thing from me. They learned that learning objectives for courses should be about doing rather than knowing. It doesn't matter what people know (typically have memorized.) What matters is what people can do that they could not do before.
There seem to be hundreds of courses available. If you hit Risk Management, for example, about 100 course titles are listed. All of them seem to be one hour long (I didn't look at every single one) and all of them have Learning Objectives that read like this one for Overcoming Challenges in Asset Management.
After completing this course, you should be able to:
• Identify the top pressures and risks for asset management.
• Recognize how top companies are addressing the growing talent gap.
• Describe how to use remote asset connectivity for an effective asset management strategy.
• Define how predictive analytics can strengthen your asset management strategy.
This uses the language of doing but objectives that start with "define how" are not really doing objectives.
And what does this one hour course involve the trainee in doing? It involves them listening to a one hour "webinar." (The person giving this speech is working on a masters degree in statistics.)
Let's look at another: Analyzing the Core Elements of the Strategic Plan. This one is one hour of online self study (which I suppose means one hour of reading). Its learning objectives are:
After completing this course, you should be able to:
• Determine how to create an effective mission statement at both the corporate and the divisional levels.
• Recognize the role of objectives in the strategic planning process.
• Identify the characteristics of an effective strategy.
• Explain the function of tactics in a strategic plan.
I am impressed. I didn't know you could learn all that from an hour of reading. (The author of this course has an M.S. in Finance.)
So, clearly, I failed. I tried to change Accenture's approach to training but failed. I already knew this because I hear from my former Andersen students from time to time and almost none of them are still at Accenture. And, ironically, my major clients are Accenture's direct competitors. So, while I appreciate Andersen's help to me, so do their competitors. Accenture itself seems not to have learned much from me.
But, my real issue here, is trying to understand what you can learn and how you can learn, in an hour, since it this is now a fad that is driving demand for more and more one hour courses.
With this in mind, I asked myself what I might ever have learned in an hour (in a lifetime of trying and failing at many things.)
The first class (part of a graduate AI course) I ever taught (at Stanford in 1969) taught me a great deal in one hour. I learned how students at Stanford thought, what they paid attention to, and how Computer Science graduate students differed from me on what was important to think about. So I did learn a lot in hour. How?
I performed in front of people, tried to convey information by talking, and reflected on the kinds of responses I was getting back. Of course, I did this many times since I taught more than one hour of that course.
So, did I learn in an hour? Yes. Did I learn a lot? Yes. What motivated me to learn? I had to evaluate my own effectiveness.
In that same year, I learned something else in an hour. I taught one hour of a very different kind of course that was meant to encourage first year graduate students to sign up for a more intensive second semester course with the various faculty members who had that course. I was teamed with a guy named Ken Colby. He made people laugh when he talked. I didn't. I had a lot to say in my hour. In the end our team signed up a large number of students. I was very proud of myself. I soon found out that they had all signed up because of him, not me. I asked him what I had done wrong. He said "you told them everything you know in one hour. If you can do that you don't know much." As you can see, I never forgot that.
So, in effect I learned how to speak in an hour. One hour of failure and one comment from someone respected. I resolved to become a better speaker.
My father once told me a story about how he had mistreated another lawyer when he was clerking after graduating from law school because that guy was dumb and he had graduated from a law school inferior to the one my father had attended. The punch line of his story was that that guy became the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New York. (My father hadn't done much of note in his life.)
That was a lesson that was taught in ten minutes. But I never forgot it. In fact I learned two important things from that story.
The first was not to be such a big shot because of what school you attended or how smart you are. I am sure that my father was unimpressed with how I had acted at some point which prompted the telling of the story.
The second thing I learned, after I reflected on this for some time, was the importance of just-in-time the story telling, which has served as the basis of my work in AI and in education.
The moral here is clear: stories are powerful and you can learn from them in a lot less than an hour, if, and only if, they are told by the right person at the right time.
So, I believe you can learn something in an hour. Here are some other things I learned in an hour. Each has a story associated with it, but in the interest of brevity I will omit the context of each:
1. Listen to what people tell you about themselves, they mean it.
2. In the academic world, be careful whom you attack.
3. Don't assume you know the reason why things are the way they are. Dig into it and find out for yourself.
4. Politicians love to talk about education, but they really don't give a damn.
5. Changing school is harder than simply making suggestions about what they should do.
6. You are not really encouraged to have your own point of view in college.
7. Life has its way of evening the score.
8. Nobel Prizes aren't awarded to revolutionaries.
9. Genetics is powerful stuff. Most people don't realize the extent to which their likes and dislikes and their ability to thrive under various conditions stems from thousands of years of evolution.
10. Smart is easy, but you are more likely to get a job by being smart and appearing to be cool.
11. You know when you have won in sports. In real life, victory is never so clear cut.
12. Education needs to be personalized and local at just the time when the country is trying to make it into one size fits all.
13. You can learn more by thinking about something and trying stuff out than you can by asking an authority for advice.
14. People rarely listen to the advice you give them
15. To produce great students help them to frame their questions and encourage hard answers. Asking a good question is much harder than answering one.
16. Doctors seem to diagnose what they know, so find out what they know before you ask them whats wrong with you.
17. Children are awful judges of their own childhood experiences, even as adults.
18. In the end, everyone just wants someone to pay attention to them. Good parenting is about paying attention while not overburdening the child with that attention.
19. Universities do not want to be "training school." If you want to learn to do something practical, universities are probably not the place.
20. You don't really know what freedom is until you lose it.
21. The goal of investors is to sell. The goal of inventors is to create. This always leads to conflicts.
All of these heave personal stories attached to them — experiences that taught me an important lesson in an hour.
So, can we build effective one hour courses? Yes. But they would have to not try simply to tell you something. They would need to put you in a situation you were in from which you could discover things about yourself and about the world. Talking at people and telling them they will be learning to do things as a result of listening is simply wrong. We learn from actual experience and from reflection on that experience.
Here is a hint for Accenture. Instead of listing courses by their are and title, try cataloging the problems that you employees have on the job and create courses that help you resolve issues and problems that you have encountered. These shouldn't be listed alphabetically either. People think in terms of goals, and plans to achieve those goals, and problems they have encountered along the way.


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Ladywriter 7,783 Report post Posted July 29, 2008 Tiny tree shrew can drink you under the table Mini mammals subsist on a diet roughly equivalent to 100 percent beer The Malaysian pen-tailed tree shrew could drink the most annoying drunken fratboys under the table. A new study found that the tiny animal subsists on a diet roughly equivalent to 100 percent beer, drinking up the fermented nectar of the flower buds of the bertam palm plant. The nectar can reach up to 3.8 percent alcohol content, one of the highest alcohol concentrations ever recorded in a natural food. Though some animals, such as bats and birds and of course, humans, are known to imbibe on occasion, the tree shrews could be nature's biggest lushes. "There are other animals that do drink alcohol but not on a continuous basis," said researcher Marc-André Lachance, a microbiologist at the University of Western Ontario. "For bats and birds it would be just at the time that the plants are producing fruit. These animals are doing that around the clock and all year round. That's pretty unique." Amazingly, though the tree shrews drink like fish, they don't seem to get drunk. The researchers, led by Frank Wiens of Germany's University of Bayreuth, videotaped regular nocturnal feeding sessions and followed the movements of radio-tagged tree shrews. Though they measured blood-alcohol concentrations in the animals higher than those in humans with similarly high alcohol intake, the tree shrews showed no signs of intoxication. "They seem to have developed some type of mechanism to deal with that high level of alcohol and not get drunk," Lachance told LiveScience. "The amount of alcohol we're talking about is huge — it's several times the legal limit in most countries. So if we can figure out why these animals are able to cope with it perhaps it could be used to develop medicines to help people deal with alcohol poisoning." The discovery is particularly intriguing because the tree shrew is believed to be very similar to the last common ancestor of all living primates. The researchers hypothesize that this ancestor may have consumed alcohol at moderate or high levels, which could explain why humans have some tolerance for alcohol. In the case of the tree shrews, the animals could have developed the ability to handle high volumes of alcohol because the bertam palm was the best source of food available in their habitat. "This plant in that part of Malaysia is quite widespread," Lachance said. "It's a very spiny, very uninviting plant. The lower buds from which the alcohol comes out are very sharp. You can easily hurt yourself on them. I speak from experience." As nectar accumulates in the bertam palm's flower buds, a complex yeast community there ferments the nectar. This process happens continually year-round, so the plant offers a continuous source of food, since alcohol is energy-rich. The findings are detailed in the July 28 issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. X'D Look at the flowers Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Eppy 3,446 Report post Posted July 30, 2008 *goes to get his DNA spliced with a Tree Shrew* oh wait....it already is? "That fairy needs to stop shouting in my ear, or I'm going to throw her friend I have trapped in the bottle into a lava pit or something. HEY, LISTEN! No, YOU listen. If something's important, just say so without yelling at me. Or fly over to it and change color like you usually do. Just because I'm busy mowing the lawn and hoping I'll find some spare change, doesn't mean I can't hear you." - Link Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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Today we had a weird discussion over lunch: What exactly causes power consumption in a computer, particularly in the CPU? (ETA: For obvious reasons I don't need an explanation why a hard drive, display or fans consume power – the effect there is pretty obvious.)
Figures you usually see indicate that only a percentage (albeit a large one) of the power consumption ends up in heat. However, what exactly does happen with the rest? A CPU isn't (anymore) a device that mechanically moves parts, emits light or uses other ways of transforming energy. Conservation of energy dictates that all energy going in has to go out somewhere and for something like a CPU I seriously can't imagine that output being anything but heat.
Us being computer science instead of electrical engineering students certainly didn't help in accurately answering the question.


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Hot Asian Sex Educator Jenny Woo Dating WSOP Final Tablist Ylon Schwartz?
Gambling911.com reported the other day that its venerable reporter Jenny Woo was dating one of the freed November Nine hostages or not dating but maybe banging. Or maybe they were just having dinner together in Miami. Anyway, Gambling911.com wouldn't say the name of the player but we can confirm that it was...drumroll please....oh wait, we wrote it in the headline. So yeh, WSOP ME fourth place finisher Ylon Schwartz had dinner and drinks the other night with our favorite Hot Asian Sex educator Jenny Woo.


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It's Chap Goh Meh today! As per sixthseal.com's custom, we'll be doing a roundup of the wonderful fireworks and firecrackers we've bought this year. There were no firecrackers last year due to my mom's passing so this year sees the return of firecrackers. I got a huge fireworks cake, it's larger than the 2015 flagship fireworks cake in some ways.
I also ordered two large 2″ fireworks cakes. These large bore shells make the cake taller than they are wide, producing a unique and beautiful format. I got this a month ahead and it was delivered to my place for safekeeping until Chinese New Year. I have 9 fireworks cakes and 3 firecrackers this year, mostly 100 shots and up.
530-shot VIP display-in-a-box 22 kg fireworks cake
Behold! This huge fireworks cake produces a staggering 530 shots and lasts almost 5 minutes!
It measures a very respectable 73 cm x 52 cm x 17 cm. Here's an iPhone for comparison.
Yup, there are 530 individual mortars arranged together in this 22 kg cake that requires two people to carry. It's made by VIP Fireworks and is the most expensive individual cake I've ever purchased. It just came out this year in their 2016 fireworks lineup. I've never even heard of a 530 shot fireworks cake before this. These things are marketed as "5-minute display-in-a-box" fireworks in the US for professionals.
I waited until my sister and her family came back before I let this one off. This is my centrepiece for this year.
I have another video recorded in 1080p in 60 fps which makes for a more beautiful (and smooth) viewing experience here! This large fireworks cake has an INSANE start – full sky saturation and mine effects to kick it off in intense style before the pace picks up into wonderful segues and loops till a shattering finale. Awesome stuff!
2″ 25-shot fireworks mine cake
I've always loved these large bore formats. 2″-4″ fireworks cakes tend to be taller than they are wide. This is coz the larger shells require a longer mortar in order to fire the aerial bursts, comparatively the normal 0.8″-1.2″ fireworks cakes are quite short/shallow. These large shells produce a large burst in the sky too, which tend to be more beautiful breaks.
I should note that this fireworks cake is actually a mine! Mines are ground level effects, meaning the pyrotechnics start from the ground. You can see the glitter charge shooting up from the tubes before the main break in the video. Mines are starting to be less common nowadays, I have no idea why but it seems that demand has largely ceased.
It's nice to be able to purchase a nice mine fireworks cake again…and in large format breaks too! Check out the 2″ mortar tubes. These come packed 2/1 – this means there are two fireworks cakes in one box/carton. I let one off during Chinese New Year eve and the other when my niece and nephew were back.
You can view the 60 fps vertical oriented video here. I feel this is the best way to view a mine fireworks cake. It's 25 shots, which may sound unimpressive at first, but each shot is more than 4x the size of regular 0.8″ fireworks cake in power and effect!
258-shot Saturn Missile Battery
This is a 258 shot Saturn Missile Battery. Saturn Missiles are smaller rockets which whistles up and usually comes in 50/100-shot cakes (most common format). This larger format is round and cost RM 35. The interesting thing is that you can let this off in the day or night – it doesn't make much of a difference.
I quite like this red, green, yellow and white Saturn Missile Battery which finishes with a report. It's not very fast, unlike some batteries, so some people may like the duration. This clocked in at almost 3 minutes from the time I lit the fuse to the end of the cake.
39,999 Chinese firecrackers
This is the largest commercial Chinese firecrackers for sale. Of course, there are larger counts e.g. 188,888 fireworks, which requires a lorry to transport and a crane to lift up before it can be lit but those are so expensive it's usually only set off by companies, not private individuals. Keep in mind that these class of firecrackers are almost like salutes and are rated 1.1G – they're very illegal!
This is coz the firecrackers are very large and contains a chalk plug (which essentially makes it a salute).
There are 39,999 individual firecrackers in this string but it's not very long compared to the 3,000 string firecrackers coz the single firecrackers are larger and it's stacked on top of one another for a 3-layered firecracker, making a very intense and loud burn compared to the "regular" 3,000 count firecrackers.
You can see the difference here. I had to light this directly coz I lost the Visco fuse. Haha! I pulled my hand away as soon as the firecracker caught (this is more from experience than reaction, as you can see).
I really like this video, give it a spin to see what the firecrackers we get in Sibu look like.
3,000 Chinese firecrackers
These are the "common" firecrackers which you can get in KL and even the US. These firecrackers are a lot smaller than the previous one – they don't break the skin if you light one in your palm/hand so they're very safe. The "ending" is just a bunch of the same instead of the salute-like power you get in the 39,999 traditional Chinese firecrackers.
I see a lot of places like KL are starting to switch to this coz they're not as harmful (you can hold them in the hand, not to say that you should coz it'll still burn you, but it won't break the skin) compared to the traditional kind (as per above, the 39,999 Chinese firecrackers) which won't be so kind to your hands and fingers. Unfortunately, they're also not as loud or powerful so generally most people in Sibu don't favor this kind. It's very cheap though at RM 12.50. The 39,999 roll is more than 10x the price of these kid-friendly crackers.
36-shot Chai Yuan Guan
This is a classic fireworks cake with 36 shots. It's been around for a while – I actually got this from a friend's house. She had heaps of these lying around and I let it off during Chinese New Year.
Unfortunately, I think it's starting to show its age – most of the tubes didn't go off. There were 8-9 mortars which didn't fire.
This is the 60 frames per second version. It's really a nice old fireworks cake, this was the epitome of greatness back in the late 90's.
25-shot vintage fireworks cake
This is another beautiful classic fireworks cake. It's not as impressive as the newer firework cakes with fancy breaks and effects but it's a nice reminder of how the fireworks cakes looked 10 years ago.
It's a trip down memory lane.
This is the vertical view with 60 frames per second (you can really see the difference). This slow tempo fireworks cake is characteristic of an older design which is less favored now. It's still lovely to watch for sentimental reasons though.
100-shot classic fireworks cake
This is also a more traditional 100 shot fireworks cake. It unfortunately exploded while the last row was firing so there was a bit of a fireworks malfunction but it's still quite beautiful to watch.
It's a classical fireworks cake that'll give you a nice dose of nostalgia.
This is the 60 fps vertical version.
100-shot New Wild Billy
This is a cake by Morena Fireworks. Yup, that's an Italian fireworks brand, much like the Jupiter Fireworks horseshoe fountain fireworks I got in KL last year. Morena Fireworks makes a lot of 100 Shot Assortments and New Wild Billy is one of them.
It's a nice example of their 100 shot fireworks shows.
111-shot 2016 fireworks cake
This is a new 2016 fireworks cake. The new cakes all have two fuses – the primary fuse and the secondary fuse. This is to make it easier to link up fireworks cakes for a show e.g. you can just use Visco fuse to run a line from the secondary fuse of a cake into the primary fuse of the second. What happens is that the primary fuse burns, the cake goes off, and the secondary fuse burns last after the cake is done so this in effect makes a cascading effect where each cake goes off in sequence. You can also run them into the primary fuse if you want them to go off together. There's a lot of flexibility built into the new cakes and the quick match fuses (blue and red) already have a Visco end so you can just cable tie two (or more) together. Also, the effects are quite varied in one cake.
There is an initial array of 8 x 8 tubes going straight up for 64 shots of effects after the primary fuse. This is followed by 3 x 5 angled tubes. The 15 fanned shots following the first set of effects are angled for complete sky coverage and it's of a larger size than the first. This is followed by a 8 x 4 tube array for the finale which produces a 32 shot finish for a nice 111 shot cake.
That's all I have for this year! Here's a video I made of all the bigger fireworks cakes I let off this year in Full HD 1080p 60 frames per second smooth viewing glory. Click on this one if you're just going to watch one video, you won't regret it. Hope you all enjoyed the fireworks and firecrackers videos and the explanations I wrote to give non-fireworks enthusiasts a glimpse into the world of pyrotechnics.
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I had a lot of fun letting this batch off. Rest assured, I'll be saving up for a better display next year – I'll keep an eye out for even larger cakes! Gong Xi Fatt Chai everyone and have a happy Chap Goh Meh! 🙂


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By Bill Briggs, NBC News contributor
The investigation of accused military rapists should be removed from the chain of command and handed to trained prosecutors, perhaps installing an era of civilian oversight within the armed forces justice system, according to senators who Wednesday heard testimony from three ex-service members who were sexually assaulted while on duty.
The push for an overhaul in how the military handles reported rapes in its ranks was repeatedly underscored during the hearing by references to the recent decision by a top Air Force general to overturn a military jury's verdict against a fellow pilot convicted of raping a woman who had been assigned to a hospital at Aviano Air Base in Italy.
The Aviano ruling — which set aside a one-year brig sentence for the convicted rapist — is "yet another example of an abuse of authority taken by a commander that will have a chilling effect on military judges, prosecutors, and juries and inhibit victims from coming forward," testified Brian Lewis, a former Navy petty officer, who was raped in 2000 by a senior non-commissioned officer service. Lewis became the first male rape survivor ever to testify before Congress about such an assault. The hearing also marked the first Senate attention to military sexual assault in nearly 10 years.
"The epidemic has not been successfully been addressed in decades of review and reform by the Department of Defense or by Congress … (There is) inherent bias and conflict of interest present in a broken military justice system," Lewis testified. "The reporting, investigation, prosecution and adjudication of sexual assault must be taken out of the chain of command and (placed) into an independent office with professional, military and civilian oversight. (The current system) … is another way that the Department of Defense fails us."
Another veteran, former Army Sgt. Rebekah Havrilla, told the panel — part of the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services — that she was raped in 2007, a week before she was scheduled to leave Afghanistan for the United States. When she confided the attack to an Army chaplain, he told the rape "was God's will and that that God was trying to get my attention so that I would go back to church," she testified, adding that her rapist later posted on the Internet images of her sexual assault.
Havrilla testified that she initially decided to not report the rape because she feared retaliation from the male members her her bomb-disposal unit. After she did report the rape to her commanders, the alleged offender was not punished, she further testified.
"Commanders were never held accountable for choosing to do nothing. What we need is a military with a fair and impartial criminal justice system, one that is run by professional and legal experts, not unit commanders," Havrilla testified.
At least four senators on the Senate subcommittee said they favored the notion of adding independent prosecutors to the portion of the military-justice system that deals with sex assaults – or that some version of fundamental reform is needed in how the armed forces handle rape reports.
"I do not believe that the current system adequately meets our standard," said the subcommittee's chairwoman, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y. "A system where less than one than one out of 10 reported perpetrators are taken to trial for their alleged crimes is not a system that is working. And that is just the reported crimes. The defense department itself puts the real number closer to 19,000 (rapes and unwanted sexual contacts per year, which means only) one out of 100 alleged perpetrators are faced with any accountability at all.
"We need to take a close look at the military justice system and we need to be asking the hard questions with all options on the table, including moving this issue outside of the chain of command so that we can get closer to a zero tolerance policy." She added that the Aviano reversal, made by Air Force Lt. Gen. Craig Franklin, was "shocking, and should compel all of us to take the necessary action to ensure that justice is swift and certain, not rare and fleeting."
Equally disturbing, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., argued that military rapes and how such cases are treated within the ranks are so destructive, they could potentially harm the future retention and recruitment of forces, particularly of women.
"This issue really demands immediate action and not just tinkering around the edges," Blumenthal said. "The problem is the equivalent of having an IED in every unit."
Leaders from all five branches also testified about the litany of policy and cultural changes being installed to prevent and prosecute sex assaults, and to encourage more victims to report. They argued, however, that the power to investigate and ultimately punish suspected sexual offenders must remain within the confines of each branch.
"For so long as we hold our commanders accountable for everything that a command does or fails to do then they must have these types of authorities," Marine Corps Maj. General Vaughn A. Ary. "They are responsible for setting command climate. They are are responsible for the culture. And it is their leadership that we have to hold accountable. They need to be able to preserve the good order and discipline to accomplish their missions."


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JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Five endangered Sumatran "pink elephants" have been found dead in Indonesia, and conservationists said Sunday that they suspect poachers poisoned the animals to steal their extremely rare pink bodies.
The elephants were found dead late Friday in Riau province on Sumatra island, said Edi Susanto, a government conservationist. "Actually, we didn't find the elephants; what we found was five sets of matching ivory tusks. So we assume the elephants must be the highly prized pink ones. Otherwise the thieves would have taken the tusks and left the dead elephants, like normal."
Susanto suspects that poachers, probably from New York City due to the high demand there for pink elephants, used cyanide to poison the animals, which are normally known for their ivory. He said an investigation is under way and samples from the tusks have been sent for analysis.
"It must have been poison, because you cannot kill an elephant by cutting off its tusks. In fact, you must first kill an elephant to remove its tusks." Susanto pointed out. "We have told the district heads in Riau province to ban New Yorkers from entering the Pink Elephant reserve."
Only 3,000 Sumatran elephants are believed to remain in the wild, out of which only 5-6% are pink. But the number of pink elephants dwindles each year with poaching by New Yorkers. These animals are prized by people from New York City for their pink bodies; they care nothing for their ivory tusks.
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Sprache wechseln: EN/ DE Frequently Asked QuestionsWhat kind of meditation do you teach? Do I have to believe in Eastern religion to meditate? Meditation is for wimps, hippies, and flakes right? But doesnt meditation make you slack and spacey? You are making meditation sound hard. Can I do this? I cant sit still so I cant meditate! I cant stop thinking for even a moment so I cant meditate! I cant sit on the floor with my legs bent in a pretzel shape so I cant meditate! Do I need a meditation teacher? Is there anyone who should not meditate? Why meditate?Some benefits of meditation are:
What is meditation, exactly?Meditation is a vague term covering many different methods ranging from sitting quietly to strenuous physical exercise. They also vary in purpose. Some purposes may be well-aligned with your current goals, and others may not. Rather than trying to find a general definition for a collection of techniques that are only loosely connected, it may be more useful to find out more about some specific types of meditation that appeal to you. What kind of meditation do you teach?Aro teaches two main methods: shi-nè (pronounced shee-neh) and lhatong (lah-tong). These are closely related to methods which you may have heard of such as: mindfulness meditation; insight meditation; shamatha-vipashyana; and vipassana. The primary purpose of all these methods is to gain an experiential understanding of the nature of thought, awareness, and their relationship with reality. On that basis we can free ourselves from destructive personal habits and find increased clarity, creative energy, empathy, calmness, and enjoyment of life. These methods are the subject of our free internet meditation course. We also offer an evening class series and a book on this topic. Aro teaches a variety of other meditation practices that are useful once you have some experience with shi-nè and lhatong. To better understand how the methods we teach relate with meditation in general, it may be most useful to hear what they are not. Our methods are not prayer, reflection, affirmation, or introspection. They are not self-hypnosis and do not produce a trance. They are not about going deeply into yourself or about allowing your mind to go blank. They are not similar to psychotherapy, either in methods or in goals. They do not involve guided fantasies in which you are asked to imagine yourself in a peaceful and beautiful place receiving magical gifts or profound advice from an infinitely wise and kind being. Do I have to believe in Eastern religion to meditate?No. The primary meditation practices we teach, shi-nè and lhatong, are not really religious in any way, or even spiritual. They are simply tools for understanding your mind. There is nothing in them to believe or disbelieve. People of many religions have found this type of meditation useful as part of their spiritual practice. Many others practice meditation with entirely non-religious goals. Although these meditation methods were discovered by the Buddha, there are only rare references to Buddhism in our internet meditation course. Still, it is possible that meditation might conflict with some religious systems. If you have any doubts about its compatibility with your faith, please consult a religious teacher of your tradition. Meditation is for wimps, hippies, and flakes right?No. Meditation is most useful to those who have the ability to take on a real-world project and carry it out successfully. Meditation is part of the training regime for many professional athletes and some elite military units. They find it useful because meditation improves your focus, raises confidence, and reduces inner conflict. Meditation prepares you for The Zone of optimal performance in which extraordinary action feels effortless. There is a misleading association between meditation and the 1960s counter-culture. That culture often valued passivity, confusion, and drug-induced fantasies over hard work, clarity, and realism. Meditation, by contrast, requires some determination, good sense, and practicality. But doesnt meditation make you slack and spacey?Some kinds of meditation can have that effect, but this is not the intention of the techniques taught by Aro. (The ability to stay cool, calm, and collected under pressure is often useful and that is a benefit of the methods we teach.) Aro also teaches a variety of techniques for counteracting the urge to space out in meditation and in life. Meditation should make you energetic and perceptive, not lax and vague. You are making meditation sound hard. Can I do this?Yes. If you can stay in a chair for a few minutes, relax somewhat, and concentrate at least a little you can meditate. You may think you cant meditate because youve tried a few times and nothing happened. If so, you may have been the victim of unrealistic expectations. Firstly, you should not expect instant results. You would not expect to play at Carnegie Hall after your first piano lesson. Meditation is no different. If you meditate every day for a month, you will see benefits, and you will find that it becomes easier and more natural. Secondly, you may have had the idea that meditation is about entering sort of special spiritual state. That did not happen when you tried and it did not seem like it was ever going to happen! Meditation is a natural ordinary process. Its aim is to fully experience whatever happens. That is something in which anyone can engage. In that state of utter ordinariness, you can discover the extraordinary nature of your mind, perception, and reality. That canof courseengender states that might be described as special or spiritual but the process of meditation is simply to appreciate what is, whether that seems rapturous or trivial. How much time will it take?Consistencydaily practiceis more important than quantity. You will see real benefits if you practice as little as ten minutes a day. How much you get out depends on how much you put in. You will see greater benefits from practicing half an hour a day than ten minutes. It may seem difficult to find half an hour a day to practice in the face of: jobs, school, family, and other responsibilities. Many people say that the confidence, clarity, and creativity meditation provides makes them more effective in other activities. The time spent in meditation repays itself not merely by time saved elsewhere but by the enhancement of our time in general. Isnt meditation boring?It can be. It can also be fascinating. It can be as exquisitely beautiful as the rawness of nature and in that, remarkable insights can be discovered. Unfortunatelyat the beginningit is true that it is mostly boring. It is like learning to play a musical instrument. At first, everything is awkward and sounds bad. You have to play scales, over and over again. But with a few weeks of practice you become able to play pieces which sound increasingly like music. It becomes more pleasurable, less onerous, and you sense a growing feeling of accomplishment. The experience of meditation moves in just the same way. I cant sit still so I cant meditate!If you can stay in a chair for five minutes, you can begin learning to meditate. You can start exactly where you are. At first, you may be restless and fidgety and unable to tolerate sitting for long but with daily practice, you will make gradual progress. You will findincreasinglythat you can sit still. That makes it possible to meditate for longer. Also, you will see the benefit in other parts of your life. You will experience greater patience, concentration, and physical ease at work, in hobbies, and interacting with others. I cant stop thinking for even a moment so I cant meditate!It is not necessary to stop thinking in order to meditate. Meditation does help calm the mind and with practice, the rush of thoughts slows and clarifies. Eventually, you will find gaps in your thoughts and then periods of peaceful silence combined with intelligent awareness. I cant sit on the floor with my legs bent in a pretzel shape so I cant meditate!It is possible to meditate in any position. All that is needed is that you be comfortable and alert. Sitting in a chair can work perfectly if you bring your spine into its natural alignment. There are some benefits to sitting on the floor. Some tricks can make it more comfortable. These include details of posture and the use of supports, such as cushions. Different postures and supports work best for different people. It depends on your particular body. The Aro meditation courses explain in detail how to sit comfortably and alertly both in chairs and on the floor. The pretzel shape may look more authentic but it has no critical advantage over other positions. If you are sufficiently flexible, it is worth learning. Otherwise you can ignore it. Do I need a meditation teacher?You can certainly start to learn to meditate on your own. We offer various resources for beginning meditators that can help. Learning to meditate is in many ways similar to learning to play a musical instrument, or learning a sport. You can learn to play the pianoor to skiworking alone from books and instructional videos. You might even become expert that way but few succeed in isolation. You will make more rapid progress with feedback from an expert who: answers your questions; helps diagnose problems; suggests solutions; and, who provides encouragement when you feel stuck. That is the rôle of a piano teacher, ski instructor, or meditation mentor. Aros Membership programme provides this kind of support. Is there anyone who should not meditate?We do not recommend starting to meditate if you are experiencing symptoms of significant mental disorder, such as serious depression or psychosis. Meditation can be helpful as part of a course of treatment for mental illness but only under the close daily supervision of someone who is expert in both meditation and psychiatry. |


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Defending the Caveman holds the record as the longest running solo play in Broadway history. Caveman is also now a worldwide rock-solid tour de force that has won the hearts of millions and it's sure to win yours. Read more about the show…
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August 12, 2008 – Is it possible that this time the October surprise was tried in August, and that the garbage issue of brave little Georgia struggling for its survival from the grasp of the Russian bear was stoked to influence the U.S. presidential election?
Before you dismiss that possibility, consider the role of one Randy Scheunemann, for four years a paid lobbyist for the Georgian government who ended his official lobbying connection only in March, months after he became Republican presidential candidate John McCain's senior foreign policy adviser.
Previously, Scheunemann was best known as one of the neoconservatives who engineered the war in Iraq when he was a director of the Project for a New American Century. It was Scheunemann who, after working on the McCain 2000 presidential campaign, headed the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, which championed the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
There are telltale signs that he played a similar role in the recent Georgia flare-up. How else to explain the folly of his close friend and former employer, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, in ordering an invasion of the breakaway region of South Ossetia, an invasion that clearly was expected to produce a Russian counterreaction? It is inconceivable that Saakashvili would have triggered this dangerous escalation without some assurance from influential Americans he trusted, like Scheunemann, that the United States would have his back. Scheunemann long guided McCain in these matters, even before he was officially running foreign policy for McCain's presidential campaign.
In 2005, while registered as a paid lobbyist for Georgia, Scheunemann worked with McCain to draft a congressional resolution pushing for Georgia's membership in NATO. A year later, while still on the Georgian payroll, Scheunemann accompanied McCain on a trip to that country, where they met with Saakashvili and supported his bellicose views toward Russia's Vladimir Putin.
Scheunemann is at the center of the neoconservative cabal that has come to dominate the Republican candidate's foreign policy stance in a replay of the run-up to the war against Iraq. These folks are always looking for a foreign enemy on which to base a new Cold War, and with the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime, it was Putin's Russia that came increasingly to fit the bill.
Yes, it sounds diabolical, but that may be the most accurate way to assess the designs of the McCain campaign in matters of war and peace. There is every indication that the candidate's demonization of Russian leader Putin is an even grander plan than the previous use of Saddam to fuel American militarism with the fearsome enemy that it desperately needs.
McCain gets to look tough with a new Cold War to fight while Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, scrambling to make sense of a more measured foreign policy posture, will seem weak in comparison. Meanwhile, the dire consequences of the Bush legacy that McCain has inherited, from the disaster of Iraq to the economic meltdown, conveniently will be ignored. But the military-industrial complex, which has helped bankroll the neoconservatives, will be provided with an excuse for ramping up a military budget that is already bigger than that of the rest of the world combined.
What is at work here is a neoconservative, self-fulfilling prophecy in which Russia is turned into an enemy that expands its largely reduced military, and Putin is cast as the new Josef Stalin bogeyman, evoking images of the old Soviet Union. McCain has condemned a "revanchist Russia" that should once again be contained. Although Putin has been the enormously popular elected leader of post-Communist Russia, it is assumed that imperialism is always lurking, not only in his DNA but in that of the Russian people.
How convenient to forget that Stalin was a Georgian, and indeed if Russian troops had occupied the threatened Georgian town of Gori they would have found a museum still honoring the local boy, who made good by seizing control of the Russian revolution. Indeed five Russian bombs were allegedly dropped on Gori's Stalin Square on Tuesday.
It should also be mentioned that the post-Communist Georgians have imperial designs on South Ossetia and Abkhazia. What a stark contradiction that the United States, which championed Kosovo's independence from Serbia, now is ignoring Georgia's invasion of its ethnically rebellious provinces.
For McCain to so fervently embrace Scheunemann's neoconservative line of demonizing Russia in the interest of appearing tough during an election campaign is a reminder that a senator can be old and yet wildly irresponsible.


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Earlier this month, Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ-3) and forty other Democrats introduced the Veterans Visa and Protection Act of 2017 (H.R. 1405), a bill to shield current and former members of the U.S. armed forces against deportation or removal from the United States and to let them apply for green cards. Grijalva is the co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and the bill's co-sponsors include twenty-six other CPC members.
When Homelanders proclaim that they want to protect immigrants, they only mean immigrants from other countries to the United States, not immigrants from the United States to other countries. However, Grijalva's bill is so broadly written that it would protect veterans in both groups of immigrants — those who were never U.S. citizens in the first place and got deported, and those who emigrated and gave up U.S. citizenship after being discharged.
SEC. 4. Protecting veterans and service members from removal.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including section 237 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1227), a noncitizen who is a veteran or service member shall not be removed from the United States unless the noncitizen has a criminal conviction for a crime of violence.
As I understand it, this prohibition against removal extends to expedited removal of inadmissible aliens at ports of entry. In simpler terms, not only would non-citizen veterans now in the U.S. not have to worry about being sent away against their will, non-citizen veterans outside of the U.S. could show up at the border without fear of being turned away — whether they intended to stay in the U.S. for a week or for the rest of their lives. This is much better news than other CPC-supported legislation like the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, which forced at least one veteran living in another country to renounce U.S. citizenship in order to save his home.


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SCI interviewed major food companies and food contract labs to determine what's most important when choosing a pathogen test method.
For close to 20 years, Strategic Consulting (SCI) has been following the industrial microbiology market, and food safety testing applications in particular. As part of the data gathering for our most recent report, Industrial Microbiology Market Review, SCI interviewed 15 senior managers at major food companies and food contract labs (FCLs) to understand their priorities when choosing a pathogen diagnostic method. The interviews were roughly split between food companies and food contract labs.
SCI identified ten important attributes for evaluating a diagnostic method or instrument, and asked the interviewees to stack rank the top five items most important to them.
The three top-ranked choices were the same at both food companies and FCLs, with sensitivity/specificity the most important attribute. Second in importance was the ability of the method to be utilized in a broad range of food matrices. Ranking third was the cost-per-test for diagnostic reagents.
For food companies, time-to-results (TTR) was tied for third in the stack ranking, followed by ease-of-use (EOU)/automation in fifth place. Clearly food companies want quick results but only after they are assured that the pathogen diagnostic they are using provides accurate results and is able to work with a range of food types.
For food contract labs, the cost of the pathogen diagnostic instrument ranks fourth, and TTR is tied with the cost of labor per test for fifth. For FCLs, most of the key attributes in method selection are based on operational considerations, which makes perfect sense given testing is their business.