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On Feb. 9, 1989, Tiffany Sessions, 20, a junior at the University of Florida in Gainesville, left her off-campus apartment to go for her daily power walk and disappeared.
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Credit: Patrick Sessions
Tiffany had begun exercising after Christmas break at the beginning of her second semester of her junior year of college. She walked the same route around 5 p.m. every day. The route took her along a wooded road, near clusters of apartment buildings where other University of Florida students lived.
Tiffany left for her walk around 4:45 p.m. By 7 p.m., she had yet to return and her roommate, Kathleen Frezza, knew something was very wrong. Kathleen left the apartment and drove along Tiffany's route looking for any sign of her roommate. With no sign of Tiffany, Kathleen called the Alachua Co. Sheriff's Office and Tiffany's parents - Patrick and Hilary Sessions.
No one could have predicted this would be the start of a more than 25-year-long search for Tiffany Sessions.
Credit: Kathleen Frezza
Before Tiffany's disappearance she was a very serious student with a 3.5 grade point average. She was studying finance at the University of Florida and had aspirations to one day run a company.
Tiffany's roommate Kathleen described Tiffany as, "really warm and friendly. [She] always had a smile on her face, always willing to help. You just got a really warm kind feeling from her. She was pretty much always smiling."
Patrick and Hilary Sessions divorced when Tiffany was 8 months old. Tiffany was raised by her mother, who was in the Air Force, and spent much of her childhood traveling. They formed a strong mother- daughter bond. Even in college, Tiffany would call her mother almost daily.
Hilary treasures the last memory of her daughter from Christmas 1988. As Tiffany was leaving the house she gave her mother the biggest hug and kiss and said, "Mom, I love you."
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Credit: Hilary Sessions
Hilary Sessions often refers to her daughter, Tiffany, as her masterpiece. "I only had one. I worked really hard making sure she was as nice on the inside as she was on the outside."
Tiffany didn't become close with her father, Patrick Sessions, until her teenage years. With a successful career as a marketing executive, Pat had a reputation of being a charismatic and aggressive real estate developer in South Florida. He oversaw the creation of Weston, a suburban community in Broward County, Fla, that attracted the rich and famous -- including many professional football athletes, entertainers and politicians.
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Tiffany also became close with her half brother, Jason Sessions. Jason recalls fond memories of summers on their dad's boat and their annual ski trips to Aspen in the winters. Jason was 17 when Tiffany went missing and was actively involved in her search.
Pat Sessions arrived in Gainesville and sprang into action. He used his business savvy to organize one of the largest missing person searches in Florida history. By utilizing the media, Pat was able to put widespread attention on Tiffany's disappearance.
Part of Pat Sessions' plan involved hiring Wayne Black, a private investigator who specialized in missing persons cases. They coordinated their search efforts with the sheriff's office. Black said, "From day one he was so driven. He ran [the search] like a business."
Their friendship grew over the years and the men remain very close to this day.
Worried that Tiffany may have been abducted and taken out of state, Pat Sessions knew he had to get the word out about her disappearance on a national level. He scheduled his own press conference and asked Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino and missing children activist and "America's Most Wanted" host, John Walsh, pictured, to join him.
Having been through the nightmare of having a missing child himself, John Walsh was a source of strength for Pat and provided him with crucial advice.
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Pat Sessions had befriended Dolphins player Dan Marino after selling him his home in Weston. Attaching Marino to the search helped bring Tiffany's case to a national level.
One week after Tiffany had disappeared, Pat returned to Gainesville with a small army of volunteers to conduct an air and ground search of the area. Over 700 people showed up to help; including University of Florida students, naval recruits from the Naval Training Center in Orlando, Marine reservists and even members of the Miami Dolphins football team.
The searchers -- including Dolphins player John Offerdahl -- wore white T-shirts with Tiffany's name and the toll free hotline on them. At the height of the search the hotline was receiving as many as 600 calls a day.
"My goal was simple. It was to make sure that everybody knew what [Tiffany] looked like. To try and get as many people out there looking for her as I could," said Pat Sessions.
Detective Jim Eckert was one of the earlier investigators to work Tiffany's case. In 1989, technology was almost primitive and the size of the case quickly became overwhelming for detectives.
The Alachua County Sheriff's Office didn't even own a fax machine -- so Pat Sessions bought them one.
With the hotline churning out hundreds of possible leads daily, there was always the fear that something may have slipped through the cracks.
Credit: Jim Eckert
Despite all their efforts, the massive search turned up absolutely nothing. Tiffany's whereabouts were still completely unknown. "This woman literally vanished off the face of the earth," said Jim Eckert.
Two weeks after Tiffany's disappearance, as tips continued to dwindle; Pat Sessions offered a $75,000 reward for information on his missing daughter. At this point, her disappearance was reclassified from a missing person to a kidnapping.
As weeks turned to months, hope in the Sessions camp was beginning to wane. But there was one lead that seemed credible.
A man who said he knew of Tiffany's whereabouts, claiming she was sick and in need of medical attention. The caller then tried to extort $200,000 from Pat Sessions, pictured, and threatened Tiffany's life.
In the end, the FBI caught the man, who was a professional con artist, and he was sent away to prison for six years and eight months. His information on Tiffany's whereabouts was completely unfounded.
By the fall of 1989, Pat Sessions increased the reward from $75,000 to $250,000 for the safe return of his daughter.
Three years after Tiffany's disappearance, another student was found murdered in the Gainesville area. Beth Foster, a student at Santa Fe Community College, was discovered badly beaten to death in a shallow grave in the woods - just a mile from Tiffany's apartment complex.
With no leads, the Foster case went cold. Hilary Sessions always believed Beth's murder was somehow connected to Tiffany's disappearance.
Credit: Alachua County Sheriff's Office
On the fifth anniversary of Tiffany's disappearance, Pat Sessions goes public with his belief that Michael Knickerbocker, an inmate at Martin Correctional Institute, had something to do with her disappearance.
Knickerbocker, a convicted serial rapist and murderer, confessed to killing Tiffany in an anonymous letter. When confronted about the letter, Knickerbocker never confessed to detectives that he killed Tiffany, but he did admit he wrote the letter as a cruel joke. Pat still believed Knickerbocker was involved, but police ruled him out as a suspect.
As months became years and leads dried up, there was one person who was always in Pat Sessions' corner: Sadie Darnell. Darnell first took interest in the Tiffany Sessions case when she was working as a PIO for the Alachua Co. Sheriff's Office in 1989. While Darnell was never actually assigned to Tiffany's case, she would mail and fax Patrick words of encouragement. In 2006, she was elected Sheriff of Alachua County and started the County's first Cold Case Unit. In 2013, she hired Det. Kevin Allen to work in the Unit and told him to make the Tiffany Sessions case a priority.
Detective Kevin Allen said, "She told me matter of factly, 'I want this solved during my tenure here."
Credit: Sheriff Sadie Darnell
In 2012, Sheriff Sadie Darnell took interest in convicted murderer Paul Rowles when forensic technology was finally able to link him to the Beth Foster murder. Sheriff Darnell suspected Rowles could have also killed Tiffany Sessions when they learned he was living and working in Gainesville at the time of her disappearance.
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When Det. Kevin Allen looked into Paul Rowles, he found Rowles had a rather long and violent past. In addition to Beth Foster, Det. Allen found that Rowles had killed others as well. In 1972, Rowles was convicted of murdering 20 year old Linda Fida in Miami and was sentenced to life in prison. However, after serving only 13 years, he was paroled. Back then due to prison overcrowding and high crime, the average life sentence was only 15 years. Then in January of 1994, Rowles struck again when he kidnapped and raped a 15-year-old girl in Jacksonville. Rowles was convicted and sent to prison for good.
In December 2013, Det. Allen went to confront Paul Rowles, who was 64 at the time, but Rowles was in a coma and dying of lung cancer. When he died almost two weeks later, Sheriff Darnell had the detective retrieve a box of Rowles's personal belongings. What they found changed the entire investigation.
In the box was an address book. Not only were the names of Rowles's victims listed, but in the middle of the book was a date - 2/9/89. The date Tiffany disappeared. And on either side of this date Rowles wrote "#2," indicating that Tiffany may have been Rowles's second victim. Finally, investigators had a suspect.
Credit: Alachia County Sheriff's Office
Just three weeks after the excavation on the 25th anniversary of Tiffany's disappearance, Sheriff Sadie Darnell held a press conference announcing Paul Rowles as Tiffany's abductor. Darnell hopes someone will come forward with new information that could lead to Tiffany's remains.
Credit: FBI
Even without finding Tiffany, Pat and Hilary Sessions take solace in knowing who is responsible for their daughter's disappearance. At the press conference they expressed their gratitude for the help they have received over the years. They are especially grateful to Sheriff Sadie Darnell and Det. Kevin Allen for their dedication to Tiffany's case.
If Tiffany Sessions were alive to today, she would be 46 years old.
Her case remains unsolved. Anyone with information in is asked to contact Det. Kevin Allen of the Alachua County Sheriff's Office at 1-352-384-3323 or by email: email@example.com


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Saturday, June 18, 2011
"Not I," Said the Little Red Hen
32 comments:
- Sandy Longhorn said...
Wonderful!!!! This whole business of self-googling is quite bizarre, but I do it too.
- June 18, 2011 at 11:34 AM
- Kathleen said...
Googling is fun.
- June 18, 2011 at 11:48 AM
- Maureen said...
This is a fun read. And you do get tweeted but as aka @escapeintolife poetry editor.
- June 18, 2011 at 11:53 AM
- Kathleen said...
Yes, thanks for tweeting, Maureen!
- June 18, 2011 at 11:54 AM
- Hannah Stephenson said...
All these other possible selves....how bizarre and wonderful. Loved this.
- June 18, 2011 at 12:09 PM
- Kathleen said...
Thanks, Hannah. It's pretty amazing, who's out there...!
- June 18, 2011 at 12:16 PM
Wonderful! Your name has so many lives...
- June 18, 2011 at 12:25 PM
- Kathleen said...
I am one among many, and we are linked. And I say that about people who don't have my name, too, Donna!
- June 18, 2011 at 12:27 PM
- Dale said...
:-) Wonderful.
- June 18, 2011 at 12:49 PM
- SarahJane said...
Loved that, and so glad you are not dead.
- June 18, 2011 at 1:38 PM
- Kathleen said...
Me, too!
- June 18, 2011 at 2:53 PM
Out of sheer curiosity, what did the link you didn't click lead to, in theory?
- June 18, 2011 at 3:17 PM
- Kathleen said...
The hot people in Normal, IL.
- June 18, 2011 at 3:21 PM
- Kathleen said...
(I generally don't click that kind of link.)
- June 18, 2011 at 3:21 PM
- Collagemama said...
What fun. It's been way too long since I self-googled on a sultry Saturday night.
- June 18, 2011 at 8:36 PM
- seana said...
With my recent attempts to try and understand quantum reality (okay, not very well), I would say that you are probably all those people.
But I do love the list/poem.
- June 18, 2011 at 9:48 PM
- Kathleen said...
Do it chilled wine or hard lemonade at hand...Collagemama!
Seana, so in quantum reality I might have even more lives than a cat?
- June 18, 2011 at 9:51 PM
- seana said...
Well, you would, except that the cat would still have nine times more than you would. Although nine times infinite is a very difficult number...
- June 18, 2011 at 9:54 PM
- Kathleen said...
Fortunately, I am math-challenged, so my brain is just saying, "La la la la la."
- June 18, 2011 at 9:56 PM
- seana said...
Never mind. Apparently another version of you is teaching math to seventh graders in Cobb County, Georgia. She even has a blog! I have to say, though, that hers isn't anywhere as good as yours, and frankly, has some pretty harsh words (all caps!) for those students who don't clean out their lockers!
- June 18, 2011 at 10:12 PM
- Kathleen said...
Oh, my, the next time I Google myself, I will look for her. New list, new list!
- June 18, 2011 at 10:15 PM
- Kathleen said...
I am also not a scholar athlete.
- June 18, 2011 at 10:16 PM
- Collagemama said...
There seem to be six of me, but the hummus and olives called me away from snooping my other selves.
Unlike Phil Campbell, I don't have my own town.
- June 19, 2011 at 7:09 AM
- Kathleen said...
But if you did, we would want to go there! Road trip!
- June 19, 2011 at 7:47 AM
I love 'I am not,' as art and self-definition.
One of my daughter's best friends crafted a graphic of her identity by creating a mandala composed of the names of all of her friends, family members, teachers, pets and significant figures - whose encounters with her she felt shaped who she is becoming.
Beyond the fun of your "I am not(s). . . " as an occasional self-Googler (checking to make sure I'm quoted correctly), I'm tickled by my own findings that "I am not . . ." - an American Indian activist, an Australian GP, a chemical architect, a lawyer, a master American painter (I wish), or a member of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce. I also wasn't at the White House dinner in January.
Ah, the selves . . . that we aren't.
- June 20, 2011 at 6:39 PM
- Kathleen said...
Oh, I thought that WAS you, Bob!
- June 20, 2011 at 6:41 PM
- Lucy said...
In quantum reality you might have more lives than Schrodinger's cat...
This is fun; I might steal the idea, I love what you've done with it. Not so many people have my name though, really, which is odd because it's not a weird one or anything.
Even better that you're not a dead nun...
- June 21, 2011 at 3:10 AM
- Kathleen said...
Oh, yes, Lucy, try this yourself. I think lots of writers 1) Google themselves and 2) work that into some list or creative piece!
- June 21, 2011 at 7:22 AM
- Shannon said...
I am not the local TV station's meteorologist, nor the male professor who wears skirts, nor the other blogger who bears the same name. Not related to Chris O'Donnell either, although he shows up a LOT when I do a self-search.
- June 23, 2011 at 12:12 AM
- Kathleen said...
Shannon, you have a very interesting not life in addition to your very interesting actual life!
- June 23, 2011 at 6:39 AM
- Catalyst said...
What a wonderful way to tell us what you're NOT, Kathleen. What you ARE is talented!
- June 23, 2011 at 2:56 PM
- Kathleen said...
I'm honored that you think so, Catalyst!
- June 23, 2011 at 4:41 PM

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If you're one of those European-types that showers in the Post Meridian and are still feeling exceptionally grimy after having your blithe weekend soul soiled by yet another degrading Monday spent earning a living in our insidiously capitalistic economy, now would be the perfect time to take a gander at another teaser for the Lindsay Lohan return-to-prominence vehicle, The Canyons. Note the grindhouse aesthetic (ooooh! edgy!), which pairs well with the fact that "big" new talent James Deen will be in this movie, sans shirt, and maybe sans pants. Anything can happen in a B-movie, but odds are that the trailer is just a way to impress on us the general exploitativeness that is the L.A. movie industry.
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Aaronic Priesthood Ordinances
Blessing the Sacrament
Priests bless the sacramental bread using these words: "O God, the Eternal Father, we ask thee in the name of thy Son, Jesus Christ, to bless and sanctify this bread to the souls of all those who partake of it, that they may eat in remembrance of the body of thy Son, and witness unto thee, O God, the Eternal Father, that they are willing to take upon them the name of thy Son, and always remember him and keep his commandments which he has given them; that they may always have his Spirit to be with them. Amen" (D&C 20:77).
They bless the water using these words: "O God, the Eternal Father, we ask thee in the name of thy Son, Jesus Christ, to bless and sanctify this [water] to the souls of all those who drink of it, that they may do it in remembrance of the blood of thy Son, which was shed for them; that they may witness unto thee, O God, the Eternal Father, that they do always remember him, that they may have his Spirit to be with them. Amen" (D&C 20:79).
Performing a Baptism
Under the direction of the presiding authority, a priest may perform the ordinance of baptism. To do so, he:
Stands in the water with the person to be baptized.
Holds the person's right wrist with his left hand (for convenience and safety); the person who is being baptized holds the priesthood holder's left wrist with his or her left hand.
Raises his right arm to the square.
States the person's full name and says, "Having been commissioned of Jesus Christ, I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen" (D&C 20:73).
Has the person hold his or her nose with the right hand (for convenience); then the priesthood holder places his right hand high on the person's back and immerses the person completely, including the person's clothing.
Helps the person come up out of the water.
Conferring the Aaronic Priesthood and Ordaining to an Office
When authorized by the presiding authority, a priest may confer the Aaronic Priesthood and ordain a person to an office in the Aaronic Priesthood.
To perform a priesthood ordination, one or more authorized priesthood holders place their hands lightly on the person's head. Then the person who performs the ordination:
Calls the person by his full name.
States the authority by which the ordination is performed (Aaronic or Melchizedek Priesthood).
Confers the Aaronic Priesthood, unless it has already been conferred.
Ordains the person to an office in the Aaronic Priesthood (deacon, teacher, or priest) and bestows the rights, powers, and authority of that office. (Priesthood keys are not bestowed in conferring the priesthood or ordaining to one of these offices.)
Gives words of blessing as the Spirit directs.
Closes in the name of Jesus Christ.


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Leo Vegoda wrote: > Hi Frank, Hi, >> And detecting the quality by the absence of an IRT object does not >> work anyway, because every member could decide to keep the remarks >> or the abuse-mailbox-field like it is. >> It just says nothing, if a member can decide not to have an IRT >> object, so it HAS to be mandytory anyway. > > I disagree. Right now, creating an IRT object tells you that people know what they are doing because they need to jump through hoops. No, it tells you nothing about the intention. I know, that spammers do everything to stay undetected, their records, objects, domains, SPF-records, reverse-mappings and everything else, what could be used to detect them, is often of much better quality then regular and big IPs ;o) > I do not understand in one automatic system sending a message and another automatic system deleting it without a human intervening at any point. Maybe I am missing something but that just seems like a waste to me. Not at all, they cannot say, that they did not know about the problem anymore. This is very important for any legal action or even complaining to their upstream provider or LIR ... For me its also a real argument to my customers, why I block some ranges, because I can prove, that they were informed and still did not do anything. I can simply call them "spam-friendly provider" ;o) >> This proposal will SAVE me at lot of time ! >> >> I personally do not like to send reports to non-responsible >> persons, that another way of spamming. With that proposal I >> can be sure, that I got the responsible one, and thats a big step >> forward ... > > I think you are conflating two things: a single syntax for publishing abuse contact information and making it mandatory. > > You can alter the database syntax rules to have a just one official way of publishing abuse contact information but that won't stop people putting data in comments, too. And it certainly won't stop them updating the comments and not the (possibly bogus) address any the official publication place. > > Having automated systems send each other e-mails that are never read or acted upon does not make sense. For that reason, I would suggest work goes in to efforts to explain why it is bad to host abusive systems rather than into lots of make-work that will have little actual impact. See above. Kind regards, Frank > > Regards, > > Leo > > > -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen, -- PHADE Software - PowerWeb http://www.powerweb.de Inh. Dipl.-Inform. Frank Gadegast mailto:frank at powerweb.de Schinkelstrasse 17 fon: +49 33200 52920 14558 Nuthetal OT Rehbruecke, Germany fax: +49 33200 52921 ====================================================================== Public PGP Key available for frank at powerweb.de


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I'm adding these cards to the shop today! This is probably my favorite size for cards since I write small and tend to not write much.
I'm having so much fun with my Etsy shop. From packaging up orders to thinking up new items, I love it all, and can't believe it took me so long to open it. I'm seriously so thankful for Etsy and this awesome online creative community. Y'all are awesome!
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I'm adding these cards to the shop today! This is probably my favorite size for cards since I write small and tend to not write much.
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- Krissy said...
these look great! love the trees...
isn't etsy awesome?!
- July 2, 2008 at 6:44 AM
- Cicada Studio said...
These are lovely- so clean and fresh!
yay Etsy!
- July 2, 2008 at 7:53 AM
- cornelia said...
oooh love the trees! =)
- July 2, 2008 at 2:13 PM
- Sew Bettie said...
these cards are lovely. i love the color combinations for the trees.
- July 2, 2008 at 2:55 PM
- Shimmy Shake said...
You really are very talented - I love your simple designs. Small cards are great - as you can say just enough and have it fill up the space.
I love the online community as well. Loved your post on Creativity...made me think.
- July 2, 2008 at 3:30 PM
- Laura B said...
I love your new cards! And congratulations on your Etsy success too, it is addictive and a delightful way to sell and buy from talented folks around the world :)
- July 2, 2008 at 4:28 PM
- Wendy said...
Thank you all! Laura - yes, Etsy is indeed addictive and delightful!
- July 2, 2008 at 5:58 PM
- Naomi said...
I especially love the bowls. I'm very drawn to blues at the moment.
- July 2, 2008 at 6:15 PM
- Sumiko said...
I totally want a set of those bowls . . . they just make me happy! :) Very nice work, Ms. Dozi!
- July 2, 2008 at 6:28 PM
- sulu-design said...
I hearted your etsy shop as soon as I came across it, and now I've hearted your thank you cards - they're lovely. So glad you joined the etsy community, too!
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I love the colors you used! Great!
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and your blog.
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- kristina said...
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3D-printed gun files removed after 100,000 downloads
This post was originally published on Mashable.
Cody Wilson, the mind behind the Liberator, the world's first 3D-printed handgun, said he didn't know what would happen once he uploaded the blueprints for the gun online.
Now he does.
The US Department of State, through its Office of Defence Trade Controls Compliance, forced Wilson to take down the online blueprints for the Liberator and all the other 3D-printed weapon parts that he has made available online. In a letter to Wilson, the State Department argues that by uploading the files, Wilson and his company, Defence Distributed, may have run afoul of export control laws, as first reported by Forbes.
In the letter, the State Department asked Wilson to take the blueprints down while it establishes whether the files comply with the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, or ITAR. The letter states that technical data regulated under ITAR includes "blueprints, drawings, photographs, plans, instructions or documentation," and that "disclosing (including oral or visual disclosure) or transferring technical data to a foreign person, whether in the United States or abroad, is considered an export."
Wilson promptly complied with the order, taking down the files and posting a disclaimer on DefCad, Defence Distributed's online weapons blueprint repository.
"DEFCAD files are being removed from public access at the request of the US Department of Defence Trade Controls. Until further notice, the United States government claims control of the information," the disclaimer reads.
He also announced the decision on Twitter.
For Wilson, this is just the beginning of the battle. And while he obviously didn't like it, he admitted he didn't have a choice but to comply.
"It's the first shot. It's like, 'look, stop'," Wilson said. "And you know what? You gotta do that when they say that, it's the Department of State for crying out loud."
While Wilson took down the files from DefCad, that doesn't mean people can't download the "Liberator" or Defence Distributed's previous releases. The Liberator's blueprint file was downloaded more than 100,000 times since Monday, and it remains elsewhere on the internet.
"I didn't expect them to assert authority on the front end. I didn't expect them to say, 'Take it down and then we'll see if you can do it'," Wilson said. "But it's OK ... It's all over the Pirate Bay, it's in the internet, there are mirrors of it. We've taken all the files down from public access, but the internet has it safely."
We've taken all the files down from public access, but the internet has it safely.Cody Wilson
Apart from taking down the files, the letter will force Wilson to request permission to re-release any of the files that were uploaded, as well as any future blueprints or designs. And in case the Department of State says the files are subject to export laws, he might have to get a license, which could take months. "For all intents and purposes, realistically speaking, DefCad won't be serving files for a long time," he said.
Wilson likens this situation to what happened with PGP, cryptography software created by Philip Zimmermann. In the '90s, Zimmermann was investigated for having published his software online. At the time, cryptography was an export-controlled technology, just like weapons. In the end, and after much public outcry, though, the case was dropped.
Wilson argues that just like with PGP, this is not just about cryptography or guns, this is about much more.
"The future of distributed technologies in the internet is that no one has control of the information," he said . "This is more than guns now, man, this is about the internet, this is about information." Information that he thinks should be free and information over which he thinks the government shouldn't have any control.
Meanwhile, legislators continue responding to the situation with renewed calls for legislation. Politician Steve Israel, who has proposed legislation to renew the Undetectable Firearms Act, which bans the manufacturing of plastic guns, released a statement on Thursday: "We still need to pass my legislation, the Undetectable Firearms Modernisation Act, to give local law enforcement officials the tools they need to prosecute people who would make plastic firearms using the files that have already been downloaded 100,000 [times]."
Also on Thursday, California state Senator Leland Yee announced legislation to stop the spread of 3D-printed guns.
As Wilson put it, this is just the beginning. "Looks like we're gonna have a battle early about the future of the internet," he said.
Files posted online to 'print' working gun
3D-printed gunmaker gets licence to sell guns
Click, print, shoot: downloadable guns possible
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RCPCH responds to concerns about the impact of a no-deal exit from the European Union
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A number of health organisations have voiced their concerns about the potential impact of a no-deal exit from the European Union. We have said that patients should be at the heart of preparations in the lead up to October.
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The Prime Minister has today called for urgent action to boost the number of children and young people receiving life-saving vaccinations. This comes as it is revealed that the UK has lost its "measles-free" status with the WHO, three years after it had eliminated the virus.
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International Women's Day - Celebrating 75 years of female members
8 March 2019
Today, over 60% of our 19,000 members are women - and both male and female paediatricians take up flexible working and less than full time training. But gender equality is a work in progress. This International Women's Day we look at the history of women in the RCPCH and celebrate 75 years of female...
Considering paediatrics at home and abroad
22 February 2019
Welcome to Russell's latest blog, reflecting on a busy month of travel, meetings and new faces at the College!
Child health high on the agenda, but political uncertainty and public health cuts pose risk to progress, warns RCPCH President
23 January 2019
The RCPCH has published State of Child Health: Two Years On, which highlights progress made against the policy recommendations in our landmark State of Child Health 2017 report.
Turn policy to action and make the year of the young person a true success, says Scotland's lead paediatrician
23 January 2019
Two years on from the launch of 'State of Child Health: Scotland,' the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) reviews policy progress.
Risk of derailment to excellent progress in child health, reveals new report
23 January 2019
Welsh Government continues to prioritise child health but 'policies have to be delivered and enforced to reap the health benefits' says Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) in 'State of Child Health Wales: Two years on' report.


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Santiago has been dealing with back issue
WASHINGTON -- Hector Santiago got through an entire start on Sunday without any flare-ups in his back, and that was an encouraging sign for the 26-year-old left-hander.
It was also a first.View Full Game Coverage
WASHINGTON -- Hector Santiago got through an entire start on Sunday without any flare-ups in his back, and that was an encouraging sign for the 26-year-old left-hander.
It was also a first.View Full Game Coverage
Santiago revealed on Wednesday that he began feeling pain in the middle of his back when he took the mound for his last Spring Training start, against the Dodgers on March 27. It continued through his first two outings of the regular season, then he experienced intermittent pain when he pitched against the A's on April 14.
"It was bad," Santiago said. "The day of the crosstown series, against the Dodgers, every pitch I threw was aching me. Every single pitch I threw, I was like, 'Oh my God, this is not good. The season's about to start.'"
Santiago was fine in the first two innings of his 2014 debut, but the back acted up in the third, and Santiago was pulled after throwing just 83 pitches in five-plus innings, eventually being charged with four earned runs.
"Velocity-wise, command-wise, I wasn't using my lower half at all," Santiago said.
The back then hurt him for most of his April 8 start against the Mariners, when he gave up four runs in 4 1/3 innings, but got a little better, minus two separate flare-ups, when he pitched seven innings of one-run ball his third time out. And while getting charged with two unearned runs in 5 2/3 innings in his most recent outing against the Tigers at Comerica Park, he didn't feel it at all.
"It didn't even cross my mind when I was out there, at all," said Santiago, who kept the ailment under wraps until being asked about it Wednesday.
Santiago has never missed time on the disabled list and said he had never experienced back pain until about three weeks ago. He believes it stemmed from driving a U-Haul truck from Arizona to Southern California just before Opening Day. And he spent most of the first three weeks in the trainer's room, getting heat, stem-cell therapy and "doing a lot of stretching."
"I just kept aggravating it and throwing, and doing all the workouts and stuff," Santiago said. "It went on for longer than I wanted it to.
"It's been fine of late, so hopefully it doesn't come back, because back problems are the worst thing. Once you get a back problem, you're like shut down."
Alden Gonzalez is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Gonzo and "The Show", and follow him on Twitter @Alden_Gonzalez.


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Could the riots be the beginning of the end for the Coalition?
August 19, 2011 1 Comment
Today I was idly wondering whether the way in which the Government responds to last week's riots could turn out to be pivotal for the Coalition. Possibly the beginning of the end. Why might that be? I was pondering what makes Liberal Democrats distinctive.
If you think about Liberal Democrats on a left-right political axis then the Party's identity is perhaps rather indistinct. It encompasses a broad range of opinion. It stretches from the left of the Social Liberal Forum, which would appear to share common ground with the remnants of the left wing of the Labour party or the Green party, to Liberal Vision and beyond which occupy parts of the political spectrum where it is hard to tell a Liberal from a Libertarian at twenty paces.
But if you look at the Liberal Democrats on the authoritarian-liberal axis then they are hugely distinctive from the other major parties, which share a strong authoritarian streak (although Labour is perhaps less clear what it thinks on this point than it might appear, as discussed here on Liberal Conspiracy today). The only party that comes close to the Liberal Democrats on questions of human rights and civil liberties is the Green party. The only comparable area of divergence between the Liberal Democrats and the other major parties might be constitutional reform.
This is, I think, why things might start to unravel. Read more of this post


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Short Question
Why do the keys 'stiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick' when my MBP gets hot? More importantly, how can I fix it?
It is not any one key that sticks, I have had darn near every key stick on me so far. So with this in mind, I do not believe it is a problem with any one key. Also, the only time it does this is when the laptop gets hot (running Win 7 + charging = 3rd degree burns). I just starting using MacFan and so far I like it quite a bit; it is very similar to SMC Fan control for OS X.
In addition to the keys sticking at times, the track pad becomes much less sensitive and gestures do not work. I wish I could say that I only had these issues when I was on Windows 7, but I have had some of these same issues on the Mac side.
System Info
MBP Early 2008
RAM Upgraded to 4g HDD Upgraded to 500g 7200 rpm
Windows 7 Pro (bootcamp & parallels 6)
1) The keys do not physically stick down. They pop back up immediately.
2) On the left side of the display, roughly 1" on the bottom and tappers away to 1/4" on top, is washed out as well. It seems to get less severe when I turn the back-light all the way up, but I'm fairly sure that's not best thing to do for for it. Up until now I thought the keyboard/track pad issues were separate from the display, but based on macaco's answer it makes me wonder: Could these issues be related?
I was able to secure a new laptop for work and have somewhat retired the worn-out MBP. Thanks for all your help!


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Guerilla advertising: Boards hop around Main Street
Advertising has always sought to conquer every medium. From racecars to restrooms, no surface is safe. Now, one company has advertising on the move.
National Mobile Billboards, a Florida-based company, has come to our humble little town, contracted by SunTrust Bank to tout its new branch on the Corner.
In late August, the Mobile Billboard– or truck-with-a-giant-sign-on-it, as some call it– stealthily moves from two-hour parking spot to two-hour parking spot up and down Main Street all day.
While Charlottesville officials say it's perfectly legal, a similar maneuver ran into trouble in Chesterfield County in August when realtor Ellen Clark parked a truck bearing her image at a Lowe's home improvement center.
"It's really a simple matter," says Chesterfield County spokesperson Don Kappel. "We have an ordinance that says you can't do that."
Charlottesville, although sometimes criticized as ordinance-heavy, has no such ban.
"Our position is that it's not prohibited under City Code or City Ordinance," says Charlottesville's attorney, Craig Brown.
The first such signs in recent memory came in 1989, when an enterprising UVA First Year bought an old van and asked a friend to weld billboards to it. That student, Kent Schwager, dubbed his project "Chariot Advertising" and operated it until 1993.
Using his student parking pass, Schwager would park his Chariot at University Hall, or occasionally rent a parking space at a fraternity house. He says he never encountered any regulatory hurdles.
Driving along Route 29 recently, Schwager says, he was impressed when he spotted the slick new Mobile Billboard. "I didn't look at the sign," says Schwager, "but it was an impressive rig."
Not everyone's so pleased with the concept.
"Parking is for people going to stores, not for advertising," says Kay Slaughter, billboard fighter for the Southern Environmental Law Center.
If Charlottesville officials ever decide to ban mobile billboards, they might want to watch the Chesterfield case. Clark vows to take her case all the way to the Supreme Court.
Clark says officials ignored her truck and others until a "jealous realtor" started complaining.
"They need to either make the law for everybody or nobody," says Clark.


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I want help structuring paragraphs
It may be helpful to think of each paragraph as a mini-essay. Just as there are three stages in an essay, there are often three stages in a paragraph:
- Topic sentence (also known as introductory sentence)
- Body of the paragraph
- Concluding sentence (optional - only necessary for a long paragraph)
The first (introduction) sentence in the great majority of paragraphs is the topic sentence. This sentence introduces a general overview of the topic and the purpose of the paragraph. The topic sentence answer the question 'What's the paragraph about?'. It should be more generl than the body of the paragraph.
Once the topic of the paragraph has been set up in the first sentence (or sentences), the writer then develops this topic in the body of the paragraph. Some body sentences may elaborate directly on the topic sentence - for example, by giving definitions, classifications, explanations, contrasts, examples, evidence, etc. Other body sentences are linked only to previous body sentences.
The final sentence in many, but not all, paragraphs is a concluding sentence. This sentence does not present specific new information, but often either summarises the content of the body, or comments on it. It can also link to the topic of the next paragraph, by showing how the paragraph content links to the topic sentence of the next paragraph.
You don't have to write all your paragraphs using this structure (for example, there are paragraphs with no topic sentence, or it comes near the end of the paragraph). However, the structure above is a very common and clear structure, which makes it easy for the reader to follow, and gives the reader the feeling that your thinking is also clear.


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text: I always point out when the mainstream press gets security wrong, so I thought I'd point out this article that really does a nice job of explaining to the general public what's going on at their local courthouse. Nothing revolutionary, but the installer is interviewed and the nuts and bolts are outlined well. On a smaller note, I can't decide what to think about this quote: "The courthouse can be a violable place," Armentrout said. "If something were to happen, we hope to be able to respond to it adequately." Did he really say volatile or violent, and violable is a typo, or did he really say violable, using an archaic adjectival form of the verb to violate? Meaning, I guess, the courthouse can be a place where people are violated, in the broad sense of the word?


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By Joyce P. Brayboy, U.S. Army Research LaboratoryAugust 5, 2013
ADELPHI, Md. (Aug. 5, 2013) -- "Long-Lived Power" sounds like it could be an energy revolution, a revolutionary of sorts within the family of far-reaching energy solutions for the battlefield -- because it uses radioisotopes.
It is a power source that supports low power for years -- 100 microwatts of average power -- according to its developers.
Scientists at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory are testing tritium, a radioisotope that is produced in nuclear reactors, to power sensors. This alternative energy source could give sensors -- the eyes and ears of warfighters -- a battlefield energy source capable of lasting a 13-year half-life. Half-life is the measure of time it takes for the material to fall to half of its value.
"Other available isotopes last 100 years," said Marc Litz, Ph.D., of the Power and Energy Division, who conceptualized the idea.
The laboratory is addressing the Army's issue of weight and duration of usefulness among the limitations of chemical batteries.
"Chemical batteries are vastly available, but the small capacity means leaving a trail of batteries on the battlefield. In contrast, isotope batteries are a 'deep well,' but the 'pipe' is kept small -- or in other words, the batteries give off a trickle charge but for many years," Litz said.
"A trickle charge is useful when an Army squad needs awareness of activities happening in an isolated area," Litz continued. "One way to keep them from the potential danger is sensing the acoustic and electromagnetic vibrations using a monitor that communicates the data back to a safer location. The isotope power source allows the sensors to operate with a power switch from kilometers away for extended periods of time. Isotopes store more energy in this way, or greater energy density, than chemical materials."
"The team of researchers have designed and fabricated power source prototypes that house the tritium and other ingredients to charge the multi-functioning sensors in a battery format that Soldiers are comfortable using in the field," Litz said. "One of the challenges of the research is to make sensors work at a low enough power level to make long-lived power a safe, practical and easy to handle resource."
"Decaying isotopes are a concern," said Dimos Katsis, who designs the energy-harvesting circuits with Athena Energy as part of Litz's team. "The isotopes emit radiation in an amount comparable to that in local medical x-rays
"Radioactive elements like kryptonite, a fictional material that appeared to weaken the 'Man of Steel,' have given isotopes a bad name," Katsis said. "But the trace levels of tritium that you would find in a theater exit sign or glow stick are just enough to power Army sensors that can detect acoustics and electromagnetic signals for more than 10 years."
In order to use small amounts of tritium, which would be safe for any Soldier, reduced power output is necessary.
"It puts bounds on how much power we are willing to get out of the device," Katsis explained. "This power source would never be used for something like a high-powered laser system."
Another challenge the team has faced was housing the tritium in material that makes it safe and easily transportable.
"People are surprised to find the materials in the power source are less toxic than something like ibuprofen," Katsis said.
"The team has been working on sensors for about three years, and it is still likely a couple years before long-lived power is useful to industry," Litz stated. "We want to make the long-lived power devices smaller and even more efficient. Solutions like long-lived power are examples of 'high-risk, high-reward' basic science that is one of the laboratory focus areas."
Long-Lived Power is the third in a series of four stories about the U.S. Army Research Laboratory's far-reaching concepts for Army operational energy. The last article in the series is Fuel Reforming for Better Energy Conversion. Scientists and engineers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory forecast energy solutions into the future with a portfolio of basic and applied science.
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