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Day 2 of MM revival is decidedly happier than Day 1, even if that's a relatively low bar to climb. Hey, I'll take what I can get. The topics du jour: Nick Faust at the point, a new football commitment, and the Big Ten maybe changing their division names to something that actually makes sense.
Maryland considering Nick Faust at point?
It was only a matter of time before this discussion began in earnest, given that it was clear that Mark Turgeon's not exactly psyched with Pe'Shon Howard at the point and Seth Allen is far from ready. The only other option? Nick Faust, who ran point for much of last year, albeit with mixed results.
It'd be at the very least an interesting option, and could cause some problems for opponents in terms of length and athleticism, although I'm not sure how serious Turgeon is with it. I'll try to dig up some old numbers on how Faust performed at point for a later post, but if my memory serves me: while Faust was turnover-prone and up-and-down at the point, he was also more effective offensively (generally speaking) and Maryland ran their offense better with him running things at the end of the year.
Remember the Faust at the end of last year, aggressive but sensible and looking like an even better option than Terrell Stoglin offensively? If him "running point" - and I use scare quotes because he clearly wasn't a traditional point guard - gets that back, then it's worth a shot.
Florida defensive end Chandler Burkett commits to Maryland
Consensus two-star, formerly committed to Florida International but flipped after visiting over the weekend. Bit of a strange take at this point, but Edsall's never been shy about taking his guys. He's listed as a defensive end, but at 6-4 and 225 I can't help but think he's more likely to fill the WILL rush 'backer spot. Either way, I'm entirely on board with adding more and more kids from the Sunshine State.
Highlights are here; he doesn't look particularly quick out of the blocks but seems solid in pursuit and a good nose for where the ball's going to be.
N.C. State game is a sell-out
That's a very positive sign, and a big crowd will be a huge help in trying to upset the Wuffies. But after losing two in a row, I can't help but wonder how many will actually show.
Gottfried previews State-Maryland
The ACC coaches teleconference was yesterday, so we get a few quotes from Gott on tomorrow's game. He's very complimentary, as you'd expect, but does go out of his way to mention that he "has a team that's been through the wars of this league." I imagine that came up when talking about Maryland's inexperience compared to State's relative experience, and it's one of the biggest reasons I'm wary about tipping this as a potential trap game. Maryland's biggest shortcoming right now is their lack of experience, which leads to a lack of composure. We saw the difference against FSU and then again against Miami, and I have a feeling it may be a deciding factor yet again against N.C. State.
Big Ten to consider renaming Legends, Leaders divisions, Jim Delany says
That's good news. Nay, great news. I'm never going to keep Legends and Leaders straight. I could hardly do it with Atlantic and Coastal.
He says that if they're not going to have purely geographic divisions, then they still won't have geographic names, but as the league becomes more stretched, there's a very good chance that they will need geographic divisions, even if that means shaking things up. Maryland and Rutgers are worried about travel, so there's no chance they're going to be split, and they'll push (and be backed up by the fans on this) to have the conferences aligned more sensibly, perhaps with Illinois and Wisconsin shunted out to West/Legends and Michigan joining the East/Leaders. They seem to be wedded to the idea of keeping Michigan and OSU separated, which would kill the possibility of pure geographical divisions, but if they cave on that point I imagine the names will change as well.


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I saw it a couple of weeks back not quite ROFL, but more than a wry grin...
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Hope you don't mind but I have a chicken question. Have been keeping chickens for ten years (and quail). For the first time one of the hens went broody. She was in a coop without a rooster, but I have a rooster and free range hens also. I wasn't sure she was really broody, so I only placed one fertilized egg under her and removed her eggs. Well, wonder of wonders she hatched the egg and is now "raising" the chick.ReplyDelete
The question is this — her tail is pointed downward and there is a corresponding hump in her back, just like she was when sitting on the nest, presumably to keep all drafts away from the nest. The chick is three weeks old and her tail is still down and her back slightly hunched — is this normal?Replies
I believe this is normal behavior from a hen who is "advertising" to a rooster that she's not available for mating since she's busy raising chicks. We've had a lot of mama hens who stay fluffed up when they hatch chicks, and the roosters leave them alone as a result.Delete
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Security Council extends UN office in Sierra Leone for final nine months
The Security Council today extended for a final period of nine months the mandate of the United Nations Integrated Office in Sierra Leone (UNIOSIL), during which the operation would take steps to progressively reduce its strength with a view to completing its mandate by next September.
In a resolution adopted unanimously by the 15-member body, the Council requested Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to submit a completion strategy for UNIOSIL by 31 January that should include least a 20 per cent reduction in staff numbers by 31 March, a continued mission at 80 per cent of the current strength until 30 June, and the termination of UNIOSIL's mandate by 30 September.
The Council also requested Mr. Ban to submit specific proposals concerning the mandate, structure and strength of the successor office next April.
In his latest report on UNIOSIL, Mr. Ban recommended that the operation be extended for a final nine months so that it can continue to assist the Government in supporting the local elections scheduled for next year and in strengthening State institutions.
The holding of the local elections will require UN assistance given that the National Electoral Commission does not have the required capacity to conduct them, he wrote.
The Council called on all parties in Sierra Leone to ensure that the 2008 local elections are "peaceful, transparent, free and fair," and emphasizes that the Government "bears the primary responsibility for peacebuilding, security and long-term development in the country."


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The concept of wealth creation, and even that of wealth itself, is often the subject of great misunderstanding. The uncritical identification of economic activity and wealth creation is one of the most frequent errors in this regard. For this reason, it is important to clarify exactly what we mean when we say that a certain activity "creates wealth". The Affiliate marketing course can be of the best use there.
Strict definition of wealth creation
In a strict sense, the true creation of wealth is not contained in the jobs, or in the benefits, or in the capitalist dividends that this particular activity generates.
The wealth created, as a subject object of creation, is contained and represented in the good or service created.
- The real wealth that a car factory produces are cars, the true wealth that a telecommunications company produces is the service it provides, and the true wealth that a blacksmith creates are the iron tools that it makes.
- If the creation of new wealth is limited to the goods and products created, would a factory that produced cars, even if it did not give business profits, simply because it was producing goods, would it be creating wealth? Unfortunately not.
- It would not be creating wealth, but destroying it.
- And this is so, because the car that is produced is as rich as the steel, the energy, or the time and human effort that are used in its manufacture.
Human activities that create wealth
In order to know if a human activity is creating wealth, we have to understand that the final product or service obtained (wealth B) must have more value than the set of elements that were consumed in its creation (wealth A).
In the case of the sword made by the blacksmith, it must have more value than the sum of the coal, iron, time and other inputs used.
A process that meets these requirements will create wealth, and a process in which the sum of the values of the initial factors consumed is greater than the value of the final product, will destroy wealth. And in case the process destroys wealth, it will do so irreversibly.
The sword cannot be turned back into coal and iron, the time invested by the blacksmith cannot be recovered again.
In reality, there is only one valid indicator in that sense: business profit
Business profit tells us if the production process has a positive or negative net value in terms of wealth creation, since it will tell us if society values the newly created wealth more than that consumed in its manufacturing process.
It is the market, when it is free, which, by establishing the relative value of all goods, those used and those obtained, has the last word as to whether this process has been a creator or destroyer of wealth for society. Money, understood as a good accepted and recognized by all, is nothing more than a means that facilitates such exchanges, but its mere exchange does not generate wealth "per se".


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Tonight at 7:00 on the Evening Concert on WILL-FM 90.9 Frank Peter Zimmermann is the soloist in Beethoven's "Violin Concerto" with the New York Philharmonic led by Music Director Alan Gilbert. Also on the program Dvorak's "7th Symphony" and "Carnival Overture".
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One of the topics I always like to emphasize, both to y'all and my students, is the importance of avoiding arbitrary power—by whatever means necessary.
I've emphasized plenty of times how the Constitution is beautiful because it defines for government what government can and cannot do. In other words, the Constitution prevents government from holding arbitrary power.
For those of you who are less familiar with my blog and the concept of arbitrary power, here's what arbitrary power means.
"Depending on will or discretion; not governed by any fixed rules; as, an arbitrary decision; an arbitrary punishment."
"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."
"Despotic; absolute in power; having no external control; as, an arbitrary prince or government."
Basically, arbitrary means that one's power to do something comes from nothing and if it comes from nothing it can't be confined by anything. I'll give you a practical example.
Arbitrary Power in The Work Place
Say you work at a company. You have a defined job description about what you are supposed to do. Your boss also has a clearly defined description of his job. However, as time progresses, he begins telling you to do things that you previously had not been required to do. He begins making up random rules about how you are supposed to talk, walk, interact, eat and the like. This type of behavior continues until you feel that you can't even operate in your job position anymore. His rules are random and sporadic. They don't come from the company handbook or from his job description and because they aren't tied to any of these things, his rules can really be about anything.
Eventually, you've had enough and you take your situation to your boss's supervisor. His supervisor can respond in one of two ways. He could say that your boss is acting completely outside of the company's rules and standards. He's violated his job description, your job description and has violated company protocols and therefore must either be punished or fired. OR he could say, the company's standards don't put a limitation or restriction on your boss's power and therefore he's free to use his power to do whatever he wants, however he wants.
In short, he's free to act arbitrarily.
Arbitrary Power in Government
Apply this example to government. Your boss is your government and government's job description is the Constitution. One could argue that your boss's supervisor is the Court.
Well, time and time again your boss (aka: government) has violated its job description and your rights as a citizen by violating the Constitution. By violating the Constitution, government's power is completely arbitrary and unconfined. So, you take your complaint to the courts. How the courts and Court handle this situation will define for government whether or not it has arbitrary power.
Here's the thing. The Court has redefined the Constitutional power of the government to be virtually unlimited and undefined. At this point, government's power is inherent—meaning, simply because government is government, it is able to do whatever it likes. As one law professor puts it:
"Nonetheless, the Supreme Court, especially in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, has sometimes been very fond of arguments that run something like: 'All self-respecting governments can do X, our national government is a self-respecting government, therefore our national government can do X.' This kind of reasoning was used to support dubious federal powers to exercise eminent domain, to implement a military draft, to hold overseas colonies, and to pass laws concerning immigration."
In other words, government has power because government is government (similar to a King having power simply because he's King. He can behead whomever he wants and who can tell him otherwise?). Instead of, government has power because the people have bestowed upon it certain limited powers defined in the Constitution.
Arbitrary Power and COVID-19
I've written about this plenty of times, but I don't think I've seen arbitrary power put so dramatically on display as I have in the past few months.
Specifically, consider the COVID-19 regulations. COVID regulations, primarily established by state governments, are attached to no defined reasoning or restrictions. Even if there is "science" supposedly backing up decisions, the science is subject to change and has changed multiple times over the duration of this virus. (And the courts have done nothing about this, but rather let government define their own power)
Governments arbitrarily decide that some counties need a curfew at 10pm. Some counties decide that masks must be worn at restaurants, even while eating. Some states decide restaurants should be shut down, or that the indoor part should be shut down and that the outdoor eating is ok as long as only appetizers are served—but who defines what an appetizer is versus a full menu item? Some large corporations can be open but local bars are required to shut down or alcohol sales prohibited after a certain point in the evening. Capacity limits are placed on restaurants and other companies ranging from 20% capacity to 50% capacity and this is changing by the day. There's no rhyme or reason to any of it. Some states decided that Thanksgiving must be canceled or, the states established a variety of regulations about how the festivities should take place. Some states mandate that masks must be worn in your own house if there are guests over. The list goes on and on and on.
Is there a limit to what government can or cannot mandate when it comes to COVID-19?
The simple answer is no.
There is no limit because government is operating outside of its Constitutionally defined role. Since it is acting outside of its powers as government, it has nothing to be accountable to. It's actions are completely unconfined and government can, very literally, do whatever it likes in the name of "health", even if its arbitrary mandates have no logical connection to COVID or health. At this point, government's power is complete and wholly arbitrary.
We are watching the epitome of arbitrary power unfold before our very eyes.
There's no limit on government's power here. If government can tell when, where, and how to wear a mask, have Thanksgiving, operate your business, have guests over to your own house, then there's nothing it can't tell you to do.
Very literally, how can anyone pull out a state Constitution or the federal Constitution and use it as a defense against arbitrary power if we've allowed them to do whatever they want outside the Constitution for so long? They're doing it anyway. Who care's what the Constitution says. Who cares what anyone says. Government is King. Its power is arbitrary. Governors can decide, upon a whim or whatever reason, to literally do whatever they want at this point.
Where does it stop? When does it stop?
It's hard to say isn't it because these regulations are not established by or upon anything. Therefore, they are not confined or defined by anything. Governors are simply doing what they want.
Why? That's the real question isn't it?
Many of their actions don't even have science backing them up. So, why are they taking these actions? Why are they mandating random and arbitrary regulations that have no scientific support or justification that such mandates are protecting people?
Friends. They are doing so, because they can.
NOT because the Constitution says they can.
They have "absolute power; having no external control". Their actions are "not governed by any fixed rules" and they are operating off of their own will and discretion on the matter. And as I said about corporations, the government also wants power, and they'll never have more power than when they have arbitrary power. When the amount and use of their power is completely up to them, rather than a Constitution, their power is arbitrary and therefore dictatorial and endless.
Keep this in mind as new regulations and mandates are announced. Think about whether or not your governor is deriving his power from something, anything, or if he has this power simply because he is.
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I've always liked having a record of what I've done on a project and a place for notes. That's often been a notebook, updates to GitHub/GitLab/JIRA issues/tickets, or maybe blog entries. Those all have problems. In reading Masters of Doom I came across a passage which described the intense environment around the development of Quake. John Carmack came up with a concise running log of what he was doing, called a ".plan" file. It provided a frictionless way for him to keep track of his progress, the things he wanted to fix later, notes he had to himself, etc. He used it for himself but also posted it to the internet to keep the gamer community informed. You can read the whole archive of them from 1996 through 2010 here , although after 1998 they were more like a blog. I decided to tweak the style of his 1995-1998 system slightly and have been using this modified process for tracking my development on projects since November of last year. I call these files DevLog (very creative I know) and find it works so well that I'd share my methodology here.
I like keeping track of things I do but I like doing it with as little overhead as possible. Hence I have years of food data tracking but that only really started being real when the ability to enter that data became so simple as to be effortless. The same is true for development on projects. I want to see how things evolved. When I look at something years later and think to myself, "What the hell was I thinking?" it's nice to be able to look back at notes from that time. Likewise as I'm working on something and I have a thought pop in my head like, "We need to fix this later," or, "Gee wouldn't it be nice if this program did this thing," it'd be nice to have a place to collect all of that and have it be something which doesn't interrupt my train of thought. I've tried collecting that in issue trackers and the like but honestly I've never been able to keep up with that. Issue trackers that become the reservoir for things to do start having inefficient signal to noise ratios. Even when I thinned out old issues it often proved hard to find what I was looking for as well. Lastly it also disrupts the flow.
Carmack's ".plan" file concept was an absolutely perfect solution to this problem. It's a simple text file you have open and you put in short statements with a simple key that you can decipher instantly. It's searchable so you can easily find stuff. It's shareable so it doubles as providing status as well as a means of keeping track of your own thoughts. Lastly, everything about the project is in one place. I don't have notes in one place, issues in another, feature ideas elsewhere, etc. While I liked Carmack's idea I have tweaked it a bit for my own purposes.
The first tweak I have is that each project gets its own DevLog. I started off trying to have it in one big file but since I work on multiple projects it just didn't scale well. Since these are text files there is no disadvantage to having them split out since search tools can just as easily traverse multiple text files in a directory as one big text file. In the rare cases where something I'm working on is related to both projects I make a footnote in the one about seeing something in the other or some other mechanism. It's such an uncommon occurrence even on projects that have entanglements that I don't worry about it. So if you look at my DevLogs folder it looks like this:
├── 2020_B612.txt
├── 2020_Hipparchus.txt
├── 2020_LiteDb.txt
├── 2020_Mammoth.txt
├── 2020_MySocialPortal.txt
├── 2020_orekit.txt
├── 2020_Spacekit.txt
├── Archive
│ ├── 2019_RunningDevLog.txt
│ └── 2020_FT6.txt
└── README.txt
As you can see each project gets it's own file. To keep the length to something reasonable, especially for very active projects, I'm going to roll over the file each year. There is an archive folder where previous years and projects that I'm no longer working on are stored. So what does the DevLog file look like? Let's look at a section of my log for work I did on Spacekit.js back in may.
If nothing is in there there is no redraw being done (unlike in demo)
Some drawing objects are being rendered not cached therefore when it's time to remove it lacks the references
Should objects manage their own objects in the scene as part of an interface?
Because things like labels are outside of the scene we should move the "remove object" code to an interface that can be called
# Fixed label and marker removal code
# Fixed Resizing window jacks up labels even when animating
# Fixed Label positions don't updating during a camera pan if not animating
When animating the label position updates and corrects it after a non-animating pan
Can't figure out scroll wheel zooming, not intercepting that event... (just pick up camera changes)
# Fixed label updates and resize
# Completed EphemerisTable and fixed some interpolator and binary search settings
+ EphemerisTable needs a function for returning an orbit using start/stop and step
+ Implement lookup ephemeris and make simple example
+ Check if "orbit around" really only valid for particle system still (no)
+ Implement advanced look up ephemeris scenario with:
+Lookup ephem for marker and label with drop lines
+Lookup ephem for rotating body (doubles for shape)
+Lookup ephem for orbit around another object that is ephem
+Lookup ephem for orbit around another object that is lookup
+Regular ephem object around lookup ephem object
- Example of multiple viz windows with animation times linked
- Update depracated THREE.LineStrip
+ Confirm delete works
+ Fix performance on the nested orbits example
+ Fix zoom to fit
# Fixed zoom to fit
# Implemented lookup ephem
# Send email asking why original limited orbit arounds to sprites
Even without knowing what the symbols leading up each row is you kind of get the gist of what I was doing at the time and what I was struggling with. Again it is a frictionless way to keep notes and track of things. I literally have a text editor up and as I think of something I jot it down quickly. As I finish something I change the symbol. If I think something sounds familiar I scroll up a few days or do a search. Again, it's all frictionless. So what about those symbols? This is where I've built on but diverged a bit from Carmack's original .plan file. I document it in the README file so it's easy for others to decipher, but it's pretty simple:
Day Separator:
'' (no leader): A note
* : An item to do later
# : Item completed same day
+ : Item completed but on another day
- : Item going to be ignored
T : Item transferred from one archive to another
Each day gets it's own separator with the same format, so it's easy to see the progression of things over time. The rest is pretty self explanatory. Simple notes have no leader. An idea I have for something I would want to do later is given a
*. If I complete that item on the same day it turns into a
#. If I completed that item on another day it turns into a
+. Often times I use the
# to mark work that I accomplished that day as well even if it never had an original
* item. If at some point I decide I'm not going to implement one of those '*' items then it gets changed to a
-. The
- is often an adjudication that comes up when every once in awhile I go back through the last few days or week of the log and decide something isn't worth doing. Lastly the 'T' is something that is transferred from one log to another, usually with some annotation of where. This mostly happened when I started the 2020 logs. Dangling items at the end of the year that really should "graduate" into the next year should be pretty minimal. This just marks that transition.
I don't really do much work with a development team that requires statusing of what I'm doing, but if I did I could easily see something like these things being stored in a shared folder area, something like Google Drive, or a repository of some sort so that it was easily get a glimpse of what people are working on at a given time and also to perhaps gain insight on related development without needing to interact with the developer all the time. That was the intention of this system at Id as I understand it.
I'm not sure if this will be as helpful to others as it has been to me but I thought it was worth sharing. If you want to see one of my logs updated in real time you can keep track of the development I'm doing on a from scratch ray tracer that I'm writing using the Ray Tracer Challenge Book . That log is here {:target="_blank}. I'll have blog posts later about that too, hypothetically.


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Homeowners were cleaning up damage Wednesday from flooding that inundated about a dozen properties on Valley View Court and Skyline Drive in Argyle Tuesday night.
Savannah and Matt King were in their bathroom bracing for a possible tornado when they realized the storm's torrential rain would be their menace instead.
"It came so fast, we grabbed every blanket, every towel, everything we had," Savannah King said.
They tried to build a dam to keep the water out of their house, but the water rose higher than they had ever seen it before.
"When you see that water entering your house and you know there's nothing you can do, it's sickening. It's just sickening," she said.
They blame increasing flood problems on new development on higher land behind their property.
Nearby, neighbor Erin Reed agreed that flooding around her home has increased in the past several years since that new development.
"It's exactly what it is," Reed said. "All this started with the development in the neighborhood behind us."
Reed took cell phone video of the water rushing around her home's foundation Tuesday night. Wednesday morning, the ground around the foundation had eroded and a pipe once burried in her yard was exposed.
"That was a French drain that initially was 18 inches under ground, and now it floats," Reed said.
The neighbors said run off from the new development is funneled into the existing ditches and streets in their older neighborhood.
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"All of the water is diverted into this drainage easement basically, it's feet of water in an instant," said homeowner Ted Dowing.
But instead of staying in the ditches, neighbors said last night's storm ran through yards and new places it was never intended to go.
"This is not fair. This is not how it was designed when our house was put in. So we really need them to take a look at what's happening above us and around us," Savannah King said.
The neighbors said Argyle officials were in the area during the story and again on Wednesday. They said the officials promised to hire an engineer to investigate solutions for the future.
With more rain in the forecast this week, the Argyle Fire Department said there is concern the flooding could return soon, potentially causing more damage in the days to come.
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Lynnea Bylund established Catalyst House in 1999. She is the Founder and President of Ahimsa Peace Institute a Nevada based 501c3, author of Health IS Wealth!, Gandhi Legacy Tour of India 'The Book', and Seeds of Light, Planting Seeds of Love. She served on the Board of Directors of Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute (GWEI) beginning in early 2010. GWEI has been in Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council since July 23, 2015. Lynnea is the UN EcoSoc representative for the organization. She represented Arun Gandhi, and her company partnered with Arun in the Gandhi Legacy Tour company. She has four decades of experience in administration, marketing and business development in the start-up, telecommunications, and information processing industries nationally and internationally. In the 1990's she served as a nationally recognized spokeswoman for the emerging wireless, alternative video, and information delivery industries and has appeared on CNN, PBS, NBC, as well as in numerous trade and national publications including Wall Street Journal, Barons, Radio Communications Report, Wireless Week, America's Network and Private Cable Magazine. During that time she founded two small business-based wireless trade associations and has lobbied on Capitol Hill and at the FCC where she has spoken out strongly against the cable TV monopoly, illegal spectrum warehousing and ill-conceived congressional schemes to auction our nation's precious airwaves to the highest bidder. Adrian Cronauer, real life character portrayed by Robin Williams in the movie Good Morning Vietnam served as Lynnea's general counsel and lobby partner on Capitol Hill. Click here to see USIMTA's Legislative History
Ms. Bylund is a founder and former CEO of a Washington DC telecommunications consulting and management company with holdings in several operating and near operating wireless communications systems and companies. In 1995 Lynnea became the first female in the world to be awarded a Broadband PCS operating permit – she was one of only 18 winners, along with Sprint, AT&T, Pacific Bell, etc. in the biggest cash auction in world history, raising a whopping $7.7 billion. Her company was awarded licenses to operate wireless systems in Kauai-Niihau Hawaii, Western, and American Samoa – South Seas Satellite Communications Corporation and Proteus, Inc. NuaNuaTV.
Lynnea is key founding team member who spearheads the successful effort to launch the first cable TV network in the South Pacific islands. We brought CNN International+ first to the island. In 1995, our company partnered with American Samoa Community College "ASCC" to file for ITFS licenses which allowed the college to offer for-credit courses to ASCC enrolled students. Subsequent development phase was transmissions of the colleges programming to private residences and other locations in the community in order to provide adult education and training. Through the use of ITFS frequencies, ASCC offered courses that had been unavailable in the region for budgetary reasons. Through our partnership ASCC accomplished this without significant additional expense to the school.
In early 2010 Lynnea accepted an invitation from Dr. Arun Gandhi, grandson of the Mahatma, M.K. Gandhi, to join the Board of Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute. Lynnea served as the Managing Director of Gandhi Legacy Tour founded by Arun Gandhi 2012-2019. (Read more…)
Arun Gandhi (April 14, 1934 – May 2, 2023)
Interfaith, Peace & Ahimsa
Born in 1934 in Durban, South Africa, Arun Gandhi is the fifth grandson of India's legendary leader, Mohandas K. "Mahatma" Gandhi. Growing up under the discriminatory apartheid laws of South Africa, he was beaten by "white" South Africans being too black and "black" South Africans being too white; so, Arun sought eye–an-eye justice. However, he learned from his parents and grandparents that justice does not mean revenge, it means transforming the opponent through love and suffering.
Grandfather taught Arun Gandhi to understand nonviolence through understanding violence. "If we know how much passive violence we perpetrate against one another we will understand why there is so much physical violence plaguing societies and the world," Gandhi said. Through daily lessons, Arun says, he learned about violence and about anger.
Laszlo Rakoczi (1933-2009)
Finance & Technology
Laszlo Rakoczi, Advisory Co-Chair, is Chairman of Silicon Valley World Internet Center Advisory Board, Chairman and Founder EduActive and Board member of Direct Stock Market. He serves on various Advisory Boards of network oriented companies: WebLaser-VBN, Air-Power, VOXCOM Holdings, SMTV, PageActive and others. Laszlo has advised Fortune 500 companies on spinouts and divestitures. While Partner at Hambrecht & Quist Technology Partners 1984-87 he developed strategic alliances in information and networking fields. He was Executive Vice-President at Tymshare/Tymnet in charge of value application business. Before this, he was President and CEO of Standard Information Systems that developed and marketed computer information systems. Additionally, he was Manager of Advanced Computers at GE; Senior Design Engineer at RCA where he was project leader of ComLogNet, forerunner to ARPANET precursor to the Internet.
Emilia Queiroga Barros
Catalyst 'Conteúdista'
Internationally recognised, Emilia conducts works and leads change and sensitivity in aspects of human consciousness development, sustainability and innovation. She has worked 30 years as an educator, speaker and expert in knowledge based on oral communication connection, science & consciousness in evolutionary processes both individual and collective. Since 1988 Emilia has beena mentor and Special Advisor of individuals, educators, leaders and special projects of public and private organisations, nationally and internationally.
She is a passionate promoter of events and programs that increase awareness and guide people in the process of collective and collaborative thinking, transforming ideas and visions into innovative action.
Among Emilia's accomplishments are:
Robert Patton
From January 1992 until January 1997, Mr. Patton was active as a primary principal in the founding and development of StarTronix International Inc., Irvine, California, a NASDAQ traded holding company, with four wholly owned subsidiaries. His last position was Vice President/Chief Financial Officer of StarTronix Inc., the parent company's major marketing subsidiary and included responsibility for all corporate accounting, administration and reporting (internal and external) on a consolidated basis. StarTronix was engaged in the development and marketing of a StarScreen telephone/computer providing access to the Internet in addition to making available services such as home banking, home shopping, stock market reporting and other premium services.
From 1984 to 1991 he was Vice President/Corporate Controller for Petrox Industries, Inc., a holding company with interests in real estate, oil and gas and small manufacturing companies including General Aluminum Forgings, Inc., Santa Ana, California, a manufacturer of precision forgings for the commercial aircraft and aerospace industry.
Previously Mr. Patton served in responsible financial/accounting positions with The Hoover Company, Teledyne, Inc., Beverly Enterprises and Santa Anita Consolidated, Inc., all NYSE listed companies. Before that Mr. Patton spent 5 years in public accounting with the Certified Public Accounting firm of Hall, Kistler & Company, Canton, Ohio. Mr. Patton is a Certified Public Accountant, State of California, a graduate of Kent State University, Kent, Ohio and is listed in "Who's Who of California Business".
Adrian Cronauer (1938-2018)
Legal & Media
Former U.S. Air Force sergeant Adrian Cronauer co-authored the original story for the major motion picture, Good Morning, Vietnam! In that film, Cronauer was portrayed (creatively) by Robin Williams whose performance was nominated for an Academy Award. A subsequent special program on National Public Radio about the role of military radio in Vietnam earned Cronauer a 1992 Ohio State Award and two 1991 Gold Medals from the New York Radio Festival.
In 1992, he was invited to Australia to participate-pate in the dedication of that country's Vietnam Forces National Memorial. While there, he emceed a four-hour, nationally televised, outdoor concert featuring Aussie entertainers who went to Vietnam during the 60's and 70's to entertain the troops from "Down Under."
A popular after-dinner speaker and lecturer, Cronauer periodically appears as a guest on radio and television talk shows, including NBC-TV's Today; the PBS series, Freedom Speaks; frequent appearances on ABC-TV's late night talk show, Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher; numerous stints on NBC Radio's Jim Bohanan Show; and the Oliver North and G. Gordon Liddy radio programs. Adrian's commentaries have been featured in many major newspapers throughout the country and on the NPR Radio Network.
Cronauer's practice concentrates in information and communications law and includes extensive representation of radio stations, a satellite radio network, cable systems, and clients involved in newly emerging technologies including wireless cable and personal communications services. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Federal Communications Law Journal and among his serious published works are The Fairness Doctrine – A Solution In Search Of A Problem, Federal Communications Law Journal, Oct. 1994; and Copyright and Reproduction Rights, Art & Design Magazine, July/Aug. 1993.
Peter Bennett (1935-2013)
Entertainment & Media
Designated "the number one promotions man in the world" by Performance Magazine, and "The world's most powerful man in the entertainment industry" by Billboard, Peter has been the Promotions Director of Apple Records Company, he was the Promotional Manager for the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Who, as well as Personal Manager and Promoter for the individual careers of John Lennon, Ringo Starr, George Harrison, and Paul McCartney. He also enhanced the careers of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Peter has devoted his life to promoting and producing celebrities, the late George Burns, Nat King Cole, Elvis Presley, and John Wayne. Also included were such stars as Elizabeth Taylor, Brooke Shields, Steve Tyler, Eric Clapton, Michael Bolton, Vince Gil, Tony Bennett, and Bob Hope, to name but a few of the scores of big name artists that Peter has worked with.
Marilyn Ferguson (1938-2008)
Since 1975 Ms. Ferguson has been publisher of the Journal BrainMind, with subscribers in 51 countries. Her third book, The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in OurTime, has been translated into a dozen language and trade soft cover have sold more than 700,000 copies in North American. She lectures, leads seminars, and is an editorial and business consultant. Honors: Marilyn has received the University of Southern California award for distinguished service to the community," and honorary doctorate from JFK University, the Library Trust Award from Brandeis University, and was chosen as "Brain Trainer of the Year" by the American Society for Trainer of the Year" by the American Society for Training and Development.
1) Marilyn's Memorial: featuring, Jeremy Tarcher, Peter Russell, Fredric Lerhman, Fred Alan Wolf, and Lynnea Bylund | Lynnea addresses the audience at 1:57:28 on this first clip sharing the story our their initial meeting, of Marilyn's endorsement of Adi Da Samraj's new release of Easy Death and Prasad received from Adidam Samrajasharam Fiji after her passing.
2) Marilyn Ferguson on Transcendental Activism
Fredric Lerhman
Education & Distance-Learning.
Fredric has been exploring other techniques of conscious evolution and systems of biological energy since 1965, and has traveled world wide as a consultant and seminar leader on topics related to education, health, business psychology, and relationship dynamics. He became interested in new education in 1968, and visited many experimental schools and taught in a wide variety of classroom settings. Among these have been the Lewis Wadhams School in update New York; Simons Rock School in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, the Solebury School, Solebury Pennsylvania; the University of Florida in Gainesville, the School of the Arts in Halifax. Nova Scotia; Mannes college of Music, New York City; Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado; and Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York. While working at these schools he formulated the principles that evolved in 1974 into Nomad University, an explorative learning environment designed around outstanding teachers and adventuress students. Beginning in the 1970's, he was also engaged in many entrepreneurial projects. He was a director of Domain, Ltd. a real estate company in Pennsylvania; a partner in the Arnolfini Emprise, a development firm in upstate New York; a director of the Sky Self Education Foundation in San Diego, specializing in cultural trend analysis; a director of Granite Bay Institute, a pataphysical consulting firm based in New York City; and was active in venture capital funding for new technologies. As a consultant, his clients have included Celestial Seasonings Tea company, Ellen Burstin, the Vorpal Gallery, the Center for Soviet-American Dialogue, and Banana Republic clothing Stores. He was a Senior Trainer for LRT International, a relationships training network, from 1977 through 1989.
Elisabet Sahtouris Ph.D
Science & Design Systems
Dr. Sahtouris, is an evolutionary biologist, futurist, author, speaker and corporate consultant on Living Systems Design. Her current focus is on evolution biology as a model for organizational change in the corporate world, on the Internet, and all "…business ecologies, including…globalization and community barter as alternative currency." Travels as a speaker have taken her from Asia and Africa to Europe, North, Central and South America, Australia and New Zealand. She has made many television and radio appearances in addition to live speeches and workshops. Dr. Sahtouris is a citizen of the United States and of Greece, with a Canadian Ph.D. She did her post-doctoral work at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, taught at the University of Massachusetts and MIT, and has been a United Nations consultant on indigenous peoples. As a futurist she is a member of Humanity 3000, and consults with corporations and government organizations in Australia, Brazil and the USA. Her books include: Biology Revisioned, co-authored with Willis Harman: North Atlantic Books 1998; A Walk Through Time: From Sturdiest to Us: Wiley, NY 1998, and EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution: Praeger Fall 1999 (formerly Gaia, Simon&Schuster 1989). Her article The Biology of Globalization appeared in Perspectives on Business and Global Change, September issue, 1997. The sustainable health and well being of humanity within the larger living systems of Earth and an intelligent self-organizing Cosmos are her context for addressing questions about the human future at local community and bioregional levels, as well as in our broadest context of global politics and economic sustainability.
Books: EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution
Biology Revisioned, w/ Willis Harman
A Walk Through Time: From Stardust to Us
www.sahtouris.com (professional)
www.ratical.org/lifeweb (personal)
Kim Long
Media & Public Relations
Kim Long – Founder and Managing Principal – Echo Media Group – Kim Long is a self-proclaimed creatively charged messenger. She is also the founder and managing principle of Echo Media Group, a company that she managed to take from start-up to stardom in just two short years. Today, Long sits at the helm of Echo Media Group advising her clients on a wide range of public relations issues. As managing principal, Long is also actively involved in overseeing the day-to-day operations. In addition, she serves the agency as rainmaker, strategic counselor, and visionary. Most recently Long lead her agency in the successful creation and execution of the Las Vegas Monorail Monster Campaign. A campaign so far reaching that it generated 906 news stories, made 139,715,657 consumer impressions and an estimated advertising equivalency of $2,737,526. It also earned Echo Media Group a ton of awards. (Read more…)
Bernard "Bubba" Meng III
Politics and Lobbying
Mr. Bernard "Bubba" Meng – From 1989 until the present, Mr. Meng has been President of Meng & Associates, a public relations and consulting firm headquartered in Columbia, South Carolina. From 1962 until 1967, Mr. Meng served as a Legislative Assistant to Senator Olin Johnson, who represented the State of South Carolina in the United States Senate. From 1967 until 1989 when he retired from government service, Mr. Meng served as "Chief of Staff" for United States Senator and Telecommunications Sub-Committee Chair Ernest "Fritz" Hollings of South Carolina.
Photo | January 20, 1993 | Bubba Meng and Lynnea at the Clinton Inauguration Arkansas Ball


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Noah recommends the Life on Side B podcast, catches up on the mailbag, and asks the probing question, what has God put on your heart to do?
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Lay down on your back and close your eyes. God, I give you everything that is on my mind. I give you everything I'm trying to solve. I give you all of my problems. I give you all of the world's problems that are on my shoulders. I give you all the injustices. I give you the people who are against me. The problems I can't solve. The people I'm waiting for. The stress and the strain. They are yours now. I take them off my shoulders and out of my mind and put them in your hands. I close your fingers around them. I now rest my mind in your presence. I rest in being with you. I rest in being your son/daughter. I rest in being a human being not a human doing.


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Anibal Sanchez pitched the game of his life, putting his name in the franchise record books.
The Tigers have played 17,520 games in their 113-year history. No pitcher, including such stalwarts as Justin Verlander, Jack Morris, Denny McClain, Mickey Lolich, Tommy Bridges, Dizzy Trout, Hooks Dauss and Hall of Famers Hal Newhouser and Jim Bunning, had more strikeouts in a single game than Sanchez.
This defines dominance. Of Sanchez's 17 strikeouts, 14 were swinging.
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Click here to see MLB.com video of all 17 punch-outs.
Stat of the night: Anibal Sanchez was either striking out Braves or allowing an extra base hit. Of the five hits Sanchez gave up, three went for doubles.
Second stat of the night: Sanchez faced the Braves 17 times as a Marlin and never struck out more than seven.
Third stat of the night: Often when a pitcher is racking up strikeouts, a big reason is due to having such good movement on his pitches. But that also tends to make walks more likely. Tonight, Sanchez issued ONE free pass. A textbook case of having complete command of your arsenal.
Fourth stat of the night: Not a single Tigers outfielder recorded a put-out. Talk about taking your defense out of the game!
I tip my cap to Anibal Sanchez.
Source: FanGraphs
The Tigers offense has been in mired in a slump since facing King Felix in Seattle. Looking for offensive spark from Triple-A Toledo? Good luck, there isn't any.
CALL SOMEONE UP FROM TRIPLE-A [only guy on the Hens hitting above .250 is a first baseman] WELP— Matt Sussman (@suss2hyphens) April 26, 2013
The only Mud Hen hitting above .250 would be 27-year-old career minor-leaguer Jordan Lennerton, at .273. For what it's worth, Nick Castellanos is hitting .244, Quintin Berry .213 and Danny Worth .136.
Matt Tuiasosopo didn't take a very good route on a second-inning double. Let the Twitter trolling begin!
Quintin Berry would have caught it!#Mlived RT @detroit4lyferob: Kelly would have kept that to a single #trollolololol— Al Beaton (@BigAlBYB) April 26, 2013
We all know the Tigers defense suc...wait, what?!
Now, that's just silly. Miggy starting a picture-perfect, 5-4-3 double play with an off-balance throw from behind the 3B bag.— Matthew B. Mowery (@matthewbmowery) April 27, 2013
WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH THE TIGERS' DEFENSE— Detroit4lyfe (@Detroit4lyfeRob) April 27, 2013
Even Mario Impemba and Rod Allen were stunned by the marvelous around-the-horn double play to end the third.
Mario: "WOW! I didn't think they had a chance..."
Neither did I, Mario. Neither did I.
Speaking of defense, after Austin Jackson singled past a sprawling Dan Uggla and Mario blurted "That looked like a makeable play," the obvious was stated.
Shouldn't the strategy of every at bat be "hit it to Uggla?"— Jennifer Cosey (@VivaTigres) April 27, 2013
I'm guessing other fan bases say the same about Jhonny Peralta.
The fun third inning totals: Nine batters, four runs, four hits, one walk, and an error.
The fun fourth inning totals: Ten batters, six runs, six hits, one base on balls, an RBI single, RBI ground out, RBI double, and a three-run bomb.
The TL;DR version:
#Tigers sent 19 batters to the plate in the span of two innings. Scored 10 runs.— Matthew B. Mowery (@matthewbmowery) April 27, 2013
Ron Burgundy Mario Impemba after Tuiasosopo's dinger:
Paul Maholm entered the game with a 1.03 ERA. He left with an ERA of 3.30.
Remember when professional golfer Phil Mickelson tried out with the Mud Hens? He made the team and changed his name to Matt Tuiasosopo.
April 27, 2013
The last 17 K game in MLB? Brandon Morrow on Aug. 8, 2010.
The Braves would ultimately K 18 times.The last whiff of the night came on a 101-mile-per-hour fastball from the rookie fire-baller Bruce Rondon.
There might be one downside to Sanchez's dominance.
Porcello sitting at locker: "You think the Braves are mad? I hope they're not mad."— Matt Wallace (@MattinToledo) April 27, 2013
Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez's post-game presser lasted 12 seconds. The full transcript:
He (Sanchez) was pretty good and we weren't. That's all I got for you. You guys have a good one.
A man of few words.
A man never lacking for words, Jim Leyland had a little more to say than Gonzalez on FSD, especially about his starting pitcher.
"It was just a terrific performance against a real aggressive team. They hit the ball out of the ballpark, and they're real aggressive, and they let it fly. He just made some great pitches, consistently, inning after inning.
"You can't really get any better than that."
Matt Tuiasosopo: A BIG game for Big Squiggles. Two hits, a three-run homer and five RBIs. Been a long time since we've seen a power bat come off the bench in Detroit.
Anibal Sanchez: A brilliant night on the mound with a career-high 17 strikeouts, shutting out the Braves over eight innings. A certain sports talk radio host here in Detroit said this week the Tigers would have been much better served signing Rafael Soriano instead of Sanchez. That's why you shouldn't listen to sports talk radio (especially between 2-6 PM in Detroit), folks.
Oh, yeah. Remember the top prospect the Tigers gave up to get Sanchez, the centerpiece of the trade with the Marlins?
Unrelated: Jacob Turner has a 7.27 ERAand 1.79 WHIP in 17.1 innings at Triple A this season so far.— Scott Rogowski (@DNR_Rogo) April 27, 2013
Victor Martinez: The Tigers' DH was 3-for-4 with two RBIs and two runs scored. The bad luck Martinez was hitting into is finally beginning to even out. (knocks on wood)
Not even going to bother. This win was far too much fun to complain about a damn thing.
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The paper aimed to study the effect of aging and cooling rate on the reliability of the solder joint using electroless nickel boron (EN-Boron) as a surface finish in the electronic packaging area.EN-Boron was plated on Cu substrate through electroless plating method. This process was followed by reflow soldering of a Sn-3.0Ag-0.5Cu solder alloy on metallized Cu substrate to form a joining. Then, the specimens were cooled using different cooling medium which were air (slow cooling) with 15.7°C/min and water (fast cooling) with 110.5°C/min. After that, the specimens were subjected to isothermal aging at 150°C for 0, 250, and 1000 hours. Finally, they went through a lap shear test following a standard of ASTM D1002. Optical microscope and SEM were used for IMC characterization. The type of IMC formed was confirmed by FESEM-EDX. The results showed that the IMC type changed from the combination of Ni3Sn4 and (Ni, Cu)3Sn4 after reflow soldering into fully (Ni,Cu)3Sn4 when aged for 1000 hours. The formation of (Ni,Cu)3Sn4 and Cu3Sn underneath the IMC layer played a role in reducing the shear strength of joining. Overall, water cooling was reported to provide higher shear strength of solder joint compared to air cooling medium. The shear strength between solder alloy and EN-Boron surface finish is comparable to the surface finish conventionally used.
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Just saw the news on CNN today saying than MS is going straight to W10 instead of 9. Surprisingly the forum has also jumped into tenforums. That was fast. :)
Just saw the news on CNN today saying than MS is going straight to W10 instead of 9. Surprisingly the forum has also jumped into tenforums. That was fast. :)
As I stated in the Windows 7 forums.
I am thinking all of this, simply won't matter.
With Apple Pay coming out, I believe this will rock the mobile device platform, and all mobile phones will be inferior. Who wouldn't want a device that allows you to shed your credit cards, and is almost bullet proof in security.
In addition, to that, with Abode working with Google Chromebooks, I believe Google's Chrome will be well placed against Microsoft for desktop users. You can bet that if Adobe is falling into place, other major players are lining up to peddle it's wares to Google.
So at this point, Microsoft's name change simply offers more consumer confusion, which 8, RT, 8 Pro , 8.1, 9 Who?, and Surface what?, did. They have so many different versions, no one knows what they are buying. At least Microsoft is first, in something, customer confusion.
In retrospect they probably would have been better served if they had just left it as "Windows Threshold", but that is just my left brain thinking.
I had guessed Windows 2014 or 2015 in the other thread. I missed that, as most others did on what it would be called.
I have an iPhone5 (6 plus on order) but I don't think Apple will rule the world and don't intend to switch from MS to a MAC.
Lol... "almost bullet proof"? Do you mean actually stopping bullets? Because apple does not have a very good security track record in the cloud... given how all those celebrities are suing them for having their sex vids hacked from their iCloud accounts.
Except, of course, that it doesn't run any apps that users want.... no games.. even Android runs Office now, something Chromebook can't even do.
As for Chromebooks, yeah, they can try and virtualize some popular apps like Photoshop or Lightroom, maybe itunes even. Nothing would suck more however, when my DSL/ISP provider has a random service outage and am unable to transfer songs from itunes to an idevice. Top programs are one thing, games are a WHOLE different story that gets ruined by a lack of internet or internet outages. No one happily wants to use google docs in place of Office, as there are several stories on the interwebs where local governments or schools tried out pushing google docs only to go through several years of issues and negative feedback until they switched to Office 365.
Basically, there are things that can and are challenging Microsoft, but they're not at that point just yet. Like it or not, Microsoft did a fine job of ingraining themselves into the enterprise and trickled down into the consumer space to the point that NOT running something Microsoft is actually problematic in some cases.


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ELGIN, S.C. — Law enforcement continue to search through landfills and areas around the Lantana Apartments in Sumter to find five-year-old Nevaeh Adams.
Chief Russel Roark and the Sumter Police Department have been searching for the little girl since Monday night.
"It's a tragedy for our community. It's a tragedy for a family. This cuts to the core of who we are as a community," said Roark.
Officers say Daunte Johnson has admitted to killing the little girl and her mother and dumped the child's body in the garbage.
"There was a timeline in there whereby the dumpster was taken from the property, dumped into a truck and replaced, and all of that garbage went to the county landfill," explained Roark. "We immediately contacted the county landfill and located nine vehicles, nine trucks, that were scheduled to go to the transfer station in Richland County."
The information given by Johnson to investigators have led law enforcement to the landfill off Screaming Eagle Road in Elgin. Chief Roark says the landfills have been corporative and helpful throughout the search.
The department says cadaver dogs and officers are going though least 230 tons of garbage to help find the little girl.
"As of right now, we have not located Nevaeh. We keep hope that perhaps she's still alive," said Roark. "We're going to continue to search and continue to take information."
The department says they were not actively searching in any of the landfills on Wednesday.
They've shifted their focus to the Lantana Apartment area but they may go back to the landfills later on.


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Love Letter from Canada: AFTAH = Nazis
E-note from that bastion of freedom, Canada:
Your campaign against gay people eerily mirrors Josef Goebbels' campaign against the Jews in pre-war Germany. Like Goebbels, you accuse gay people of subverting society and spreading disease.
I can see you for what you are: a bunch of suitclad, middle class white male bigots.
So up yours. I KNOW you are all full of [s–t].
P.S. I am a proud Liberal Christian and a Canadian whothanks his Lord and Saviour that he doesn't live in Amerika, the Whore of Babyon and Enemy of All. Hopefullly when [a prominent Democratic presidential candidate] gets in she will drive the satanic influence of the fundamentalists from Washington.
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College Protests, Activism, Violence: Key Issues
1. College protests leads to loss of curriculum time for the students
2. It disrupts the academic process of the college
3. Several times institutes and education subsidized by tax payers is wasted because students and/or faculty are more interested in activism
4. Fights break out during protests which leads to many students getting hurt
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6. In many cases people from outside enter the college to join the protests and get involved in scuffles
7. Some anti-nationalists use college protests to spring up their own agenda
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Those we love don't go away, they walk beside us every day. Unseen, unheard, but always near, still loved, still missed and very dear.
Burdette E. "Bud" Sandin, 93, of Lincoln, October21, 1927-April 12, 2021
Burdette E. "Bud" Sandin, 93, of Lincoln, NE, began and ended his life at home. He died April 12, 2021. The first child of Rudolf and Ida (Ferris) Sandin, his father delivered him on the family farm near Swede Home and Stromsburg in Polk County on October 21, 1927. A graduate of Stromsburg High School, he joined the Navy for service during WWII, and through the highly competitive V-5 program was sent to college at Swarthmore University in Pennsylvania before pilot training. The war ended before he graduated. He was discharged and continued his education at Luther and Midland Colleges in Nebraska. He later completed gunsmith training in Denver, CO and with a friend held a federal firearms license for many years.
He began a lifetime's career with the State of Nebraska in 1954 as a County Auditor, rising to Supervisor of County Auditors, to Supervisor of State Agency Audits, management in the Dept. of Revenue, and in the Sec'y of State's office. He was a lifetime friend of county officials throughout the state, and participated in retired county official's events through 2019.
He was an expert hunter and target shooter, shooting Distinguished more than once at Camp Perry, and he organized, coached, and participated on, the Nebraska Ntl. Guard Rifle Team. He greatly enjoyed following the Nebraska Women's Rifle Team in later years. He was an avid golfer and was president of the Holdrege Country Club. He was a Life Master Duplicate Bridge player, and played steadily until the pandemic.
He married Anne Bergman in 1954. To this union 3 children were born. They made their home in Holdrege, moving to Lincoln in 1974.
He is survived by his children, Alissa, Liana (David Burken) and Christopher (Julie), and 2 grandsons, all of Lincoln, a sister, Janice Ernst of Stromsburg, sister-in-law Arlis Wells of Holdrege, brother-in-law Richard Soshea of Seattle, and many cousins, nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, wife Anne, son-in-law Pearle F. Finigan, brothers-in-law Max Ernst, and Ted Wells, and sisters-in-law Helen Emmitt and Allene Soshea.
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Israeli settlements along the border with Lebanon have almost given up. They even made recordings of the digging sounds right under their homes, but even this did not convince anyone in the IDF that Hezbollah is digging tunnels.
So let me tell you. The Hezbollah is digging tunnels. Very rapidly. Just like the IDF did not know how many assault tunnels there were in the Gaza Strip, they also do not have a clue as to what's going on right under its nose along Israel's northern border. Ego issues? Lack of means? No, just being stubborn. It would take an incident before they would actually believe those living right on the border with Lebanon.
An army which pulls its own soldiers out of settlements along the border with Gaza, won't believe their digging tunnels right under the border with Lebanon either.
This idiocy, that the whole world announces that the Israeli Air Force attacked a convoy within Syrian territory, but we in Israel must rely on "foreign sources".
Someone in Israel is playing some silly children's game…
What other term can I use to describe this stupidity. This demand that Israeli news organization rely on "foreign sources" also pertains to other cases where it was obviously an 'Israeli job'. Only that we are not permitted to acknowledge this.
Who are we kidding – except for ourselves?
This is not a way country to be reckoned with should conduct itself. Israel is run by people who think everyone else, outside Israel, is dumb.
The terrorist who perpetrated the multi stabbings on the bus in Tel Aviv only last week, had no problem coming in from the West Bank. The security fence, which is supposed to prevent such incursions, barely exists.
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There is an entire industry of illegal workers being smuggled into Israel. The IDF know about it, as does Israel's ministry of defense. Yet, they are doing nothing.
So what's going on here?
So here it is. In this case, they just do not want to handle the problem. In the case of the fence along Israel's border with Egypt, they did decide to solve the issue, albeit very belatedly. Nevertheless, this border is currently sealed off.
West of Judea and Samaria there is practically no fence. We have seen terrorists traverse the no existing border, and we shall see more of them. The fence is far from dense. Powers that be – are.
I blame the government. They know better, but they turn a blind eye intentionally, for irrelevant reasons, primarily because they are simply unwilling to solve the problem.
If you want to bring in workers from the Palestinian territories into Israel, then kindly put a fence up and let it only those who pass the screening process. Nowadays, it's like a sieve.
The next stabbing will be on your heads, you weakling decision makers. You are hardly doing your job.
Outgoing US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel voiced his anger at the ingratitude displayed by Iraq's prime minister, as the latter claimed the US was not helping his nation cope with ISIS. At the same time, Secretary Hagel championed the 60-member coalition led by the US against this murderous organization.
Had such a coalition really been operating full speed ahead, ISIS would have already been on the run. What we do have now, is mostly public relations. They are putting on airs with a few bombing sorties per day. This is no way to defeat an organization which is a global menace.
Speaking of American aid to Iraq, why complicate matters? You had better send the weapons from the US directly to ISIS, rather than to Iraq's weak army. After all, ISIS will lay their hands on this equipment soon enough.