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The son of a recently deceased global icon, a beloved Australian children's book author, a renowned authority on the Holocaust and a U.S. Olympic fencer. What do they have in common? In recent weeks each has recounted harrowing details of being caught in a customs nightmare when trying to enter the United States.
As those stories and others were grabbing headlines, NYC & Company, the city's tourism marketing agency, released an ominous forecast directly tied to new immigration enforcement policies.
"Following tourism growth over the last seven years, this new forecast shows a drop in inbound international travel to New York City this year at a loss of 300,000 visitors compared to 2016," the tourism agency said Tuesday in a statement. "This is the first drop in visitation since the start of the recession in 2008."
Here is a look at some of the high-profile cases in recent weeks that have the travel industry worried.
Early February: While returning from Montego Bay, Jamaica, Muhammad Ali Jr. and Ali's first wife, Khalilah Camacho-Ali, were detained by immigration officers at Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.
He asked me 'What is your religion?' And I was like why would you ever ask me what my religion is, does it matter," Ali Jr. told MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection denied Ali was stopped because of his religion.
Feb. 6: Australian children's-book author Mem Fox was detained following a flight from Melbourne to Los Angeles. Fox, on her way to a paid speaking engagement in Milwaukee to deliver a speech about the importance of diversity, said she ran afoul of immigration officials when she revealed she was receiving a fee for her appearance.
Fox said she left humiliated by the experience. In an opinion written piece for the Guardian, the author said the incident fundamentally changed the way she felt about the United States.
"In that moment I loathed America. I loathed the entire country," she wrote. "And it was my 117th visit to the country so I know that most people are very generous and warm-hearted. They have been wonderful to me over the years. I got over that hatred within a day or two. But this is not the way to win friends, to do this to someone who is Australian when we have supported them in every damn war. It's absolutely outrageous."
When asked for comment about Fox's account of her ordeal, Jaime Ruiz, a spokesperson for U.S. Customs and Border Protection at LAX, cited privacy concerns and told NBC he could not speak directly about her incident. The spokesman instead offered a blanket statement reading in part, "Our dual mission is to facilitate travel in the United States while we secure our borders, our people and our visitors from those that would do us harm like terrorists and terrorist weapons, criminals, and contraband."
Feb. 9:In an interview with Popsugar.com, U.S. Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad, the first woman to wear a hijab while competing for the United States in the Olympics, revealed she was detained by customs at an airport.
"I personally was held at customs for two hours just a few weeks ago. I don't know why. I can't tell you why it happened to me, but I know that I'm Muslim. I have an Arabic name. And even though I represent Team USA and I have that Olympic hardware, it doesn't change how you look and how people perceive you," Muhammad said.
"Unfortunately, I know that people talk about this having a lot to do with these seven countries in particular, but I think the net is cast a little bit wider than we know. And I'm included in that as a Muslim woman who wears a hijab," she said.
Feb. 22: French historian Henry Rousso, a pre-eminent scholar on the Holocaust, was detained for more than 10 hours by federal border agents in Houston. Rousso was told he wouldn't be allowed to enter the United States before lawyers intervened on his behalf.
Customs and Border Protection did not respond to a request for comment on his case.
In January, the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), released a statement following Trump's now stalled travel ban to nationals of seven countries (Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen) that warned the action could hurt travel to the U.S.
"Global challenges demand global solutions and the security challenges that we face today should not prompt us to build new walls; on the contrary, isolationism and blind discriminatory actions will not lead to increased security but rather to growing tensions and threats", said UNWTO Secretary-General, Taleb Rifai.
"Besides the direct impact, the image of a country which imposes travel bans in such a hostile way will surely be affected among visitors from all over the world and risk dumping travel demand to the USA" added Mr Rifai.
In an interview by NBC News, Nadejda Popova, a travel project manager for market research firm Euromonitor, also expressed concern about the ultimate impact the customs crackdown will have on travel into the U.S.
"The ambiguity of these very latest developments introduced by President Trump is casting a shadow over the future travel demand to and from the U.S., especially as many trade representatives are concerned that such changes could bring similar types of retaliation from other countries," Popova said. "The new executive order could also impact how the U.S. is perceived as a tourism destination and how open to foreign travelers it will be in the future."
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Calls to Homeland Security were not returned.


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The Chemistry major builds on a base of chemistry, physics, mathematics, and computer science to provide the student the opportunity to develop essential theoretical and practical skills in the subdisciplines of organic, physical, inorganic, analytical, and macromolecular chemistry. Typically, the practice of chemistry in industry deals with the synthesis, analysis, and control of the many materials used in our technological society.
The Chemistry program at UT Dallas is designed to instruct the student in how chemical experiments are performed, how results are interpreted, and through its integrated laboratory sequence, to emphasize the importance of one subdiscipline in solving problems inherent to another. Meeting these goals, the Chemistry program provides the student with the flexibility to enter industry, go on to graduate school, or pursue medical, dental, and other degrees in the health sciences.
Robert A. Welch Chair in Chemistry; Professor of Chemistry: Ray H. Baughman
Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Chair in Systems Biology; Professor of Chemistry: A. Dean Sherry
Professors: Kenneth J. Balkus, Jr., Rockford K. Draper (Biology), Bruce E. Gnade (Electrical Engineering), John P. Ferraris, Inga H. Musselman
Associate Professors: Michael C. Biewer, Gregg R. Dieckmann, Warren J. Goux, Paul Pantano, John W. Sibert IV
Assistant Professors: Jung-Mo Ahn, Mihaela C. Stefan, Steven Nielsen, Jie Zheng
Affiliated Professors: Lee A. Bulla (Biology), Anvar A. Zakhidov (Physics)
Research Professors: Gary E. Kiefer, Duck Joo Yang
Emeritus Professor: Richard A. Caldwell
Senior Lecturers: Sergio Cortes, Sandhya R. Gavva, Claudia Taenzler
The Chemistry major may choose a program leading either to the B.A. or B.S. degree. The latter degree sequence has been approved by the American Chemical Society's Committee on Professional Training.
B.A. Program
The B.A. program offers the minimum fundamental knowledge required for adequate professional function in a career in chemistry. It is possible that students choosing this option may, through suitable use of unspecified hours, prepare for careers in areas as varied as chemistry-related businesses, government, medicine and dentistry, secondary school teaching, and even law or politics.
B.S. Program
The B.S. program provides more intensive training in chemistry for the student who intends either to obtain employment at the bachelor's level in the chemical industry or to pursue graduate study.
Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science in Chemistry
Degree Requirements (120 hours)
I. Core Curriculum Requirements1: 42 hours
- Communication (6 hours)
- 3 hours Communication (RHET 1302)
- 3 hours Communication Elective (NATS 4310 or CHEM 4390) 2
- Social and Behavioral Sciences (15 hours)
- 6 hours Government (GOVT 2301 and 2302)
- 6 hours American History
- 3 hours Social and Behavioral Sciences Elective
- Humanities and Fine Arts (6 hours)
- 3 hours Fine Arts (ARTS 1301)
- 3 hours Humanities (HUMA 1301)
- Mathematics and Quantitative Reasoning (6 hours)
- 6 hours Calculus (MATH 2413 and MATH 2414 or MATH 2417 and 2419) 2,3
- Science (9 hours)
- Introductory Chemistry (CHEM 1311/1111, CHEM 1312/1112, and CHEM 2401) 3
1 Curriculum Requirements can be fulfilled by other approved courses from accredited institutions of higher education. The courses listed in parentheses are recommended as the most efficient way to satisfy both Core Curriculum and Major Requirements at UT Dallas.
II. Major Requirements: B.S. 57 hours; B.A. 56 hours
Major Preparatory Courses (29 hours beyond the Core Curriculum)
- CHEM 1111 General Chemistry Laboratory I 2, 3
- or CHEM 1115 Honors Freshman Chemistry Laboratory I 2, 3 CHEM 1112 General Chemistry Laboratory II 2, 3
- or CHEM 1116 Honors Freshman Chemistry Laboratory II 2, 3 CHEM 1311 General Chemistry I 2, 3
- or CHEM 1315 Honors Freshman Chemistry I 2, 3 CHEM 1312 General Chemistry II 2, 3
- or CHEM 1316 Honors Freshman Chemistry II 2, 3 CHEM 2123 Introductory Organic Chemistry Laboratory I *
CHEM 2125 Introductory Organic Chemistry Laboratory II *
CHEM 2323 Introductory Organic Chemistry I *
CHEM 2325 Introductory Organic Chemistry II *
CHEM 2401 Introductory Quantitative Methods in Chemistry 2, 3
- I. MATH 2413 Differential Calculus3
- and MATH 2414 Integral Calculus3
and MATH 2415 Calculus of Several Variables3
II. MATH 2417 Calculus I3
- and MATH 2419 Calculus II3
- and MATH 2451 Multivariable Calculus with Applications
- or MATH 2418 Linear Algebra
- or STAT 3332 Statistics for Life Sciences PHYS 2125 Physics Laboratory I
PHYS 2126 Physics Laboratory II
PHYS 2325 Mechanics
PHYS 2326 Electromagnetism and Waves
Major Core Courses (12 hours)
CHEM 3471 Advanced Chemical Synthesis Laboratory
CHEM 3472 Instrumental Analysis
Major Related Courses (B.S. 22 hours; B.A. 21 hours)
- Bachelor of Arts (18 hours beyond the Core Curriculum)
- or CHEM 4335 Polymer Chemistry CHEM 3341 Inorganic Chemistry I
- or CHEM 3322 Physical Chemistry II
- Guided Electives - 12 credit hours; may be used in (partial) fulfillment of a
Second Major, Minor or Teaching Certificate
BIOL/CHEM 3361 Biochemistry I
- Bachelor of Science (19 hours beyond the Core Curriculum)
- or CHEM 4399 Research and Advanced Writing in Chemistry for Honors Students 2, 4 CHEM 4V91 (3 hours) Research in Chemistry 4
- or CHEM 4335 Polymer Chemistry
- or CHEM 4355 Computational Modeling
- CHEM 3322 Physical Chemistry II
CHEM 3341 Inorganic Chemistry I
BIOL/CHEM 3361 Biochemistry I
CHEM 4473 Physical Measurements Laboratory
CHEM 4390 Research and Advanced Writing in Chemistry 2, 4
CHEM 3362 Biochemistry II
2 A required Major course that also fulfills Core Curriculum requirements. If hours are counted in the Core Curriculum, students must complete additional coursework to meet the minimum requirement for graduation. Course selection assistance is available from the undergraduate advisor.
3 Hours above the Core Curriculum requirement are counted as part of the Major Preparatory Courses.
4 Research in Chemistry (CHEM 4V91), Research and Advanced Writing in Chemistry (CHEM 4390), and Research and Advanced Writing in Chemistry for Honors Students (CHEM 4399) are better defined as a project than a course and constitute an important part of the B.S. degree. The student conducts original research under the supervision of a faculty member, and then must submit a research report which is defended orally. Normally this project will span two or more semesters. A complete set of guidelines is available from the undergraduate advisor.
* Indicates a prerequisite class to be completed before enrolling for upper division classes.
III. Elective Requirements: 18 hours
Advanced Electives (6 hours)These courses must be outside the major and be upper-division and/or have prerequisites.
Free Electives (12 hours)
The plan must include sufficient upper-division credit to total 51 upper-division credit hours.
Minor in Chemistry
18 hours that must include
- BIOL 3161 Biochemistry Workshop I
BIOL/CHEM 3361 Biochemistry I
CHEM 3321 Physical Chemistry I
CHEM 3472 Instrumental Analysis
Fast Track Baccalaureate/Master's Degrees
Undergraduate students at UT Dallas with strong academic records who intend to pursue the M.S. in Chemistry at UT Dallas may apply for a Fast Track plan of study which involves taking selected graduate courses as an upper-level student. After admission to the graduate program, 15 hours of graduate courses with an earned grade of B or better can be used toward completion of the baccalaureate degree and to satisfy requirements for the master's degree. Interested students should contact the undergraduate advisor well in advance of the junior year to prepare a sequence permitting maximal advantage to be taken of the catalog's regulations (see page xx) regarding Undergraduate Registration for Graduate Courses.


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Dan Walters: Two issues put California House seats in crosshairs
Two sagas have dominated national politics this year – the federal government's partial shutdown because of a partisan stalemate and the very rocky launch of the national health care program.
The first, polls indicate, damaged Republicans' image among voters while the second has driven President Barack Obama's approval rating sharply downward.
Both parties, therefore, will enter the 2014 congressional campaigns with political baggage, although at the moment, at least, the health care imbroglio appears to be having more impact on the national consciousness.
There's no California Senate election next year, but the state has the nation's largest congressional delegation, saw a big turnover in House seats in 2012 – largely because of new districts drawn by an independent commission – and will have an unusually large number of targeted seats in 2014.
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The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is trying to pin the government shutdown on three Republicans it sees as vulnerable, Jeff Denham of Turlock, David Valadao of Hanford and Gary Miller of Diamond Bar.
The Republican campaign apparatus, meanwhile, is concentrating its health care fire on first-term Democrats Ami Bera of Elk Grove, Julia Brownley of Santa Monica, Raul Ruiz of Palm Desert and San Diego's Scott Peters.
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Combined Heat and Power (CHP), in this context, is really a suite of policies that enable large industrial customers to install systems that boil water to produce steam (heat) and use that steam to drive a turbine generator (power), where excess steam can be used for district heating or cooling. Sometimes referred to as cogeneration, the primary benefit of CHP is very high system efficiency. Whereas separate electricity and heat generation systems may have 40-50% efficiency, CHP systems have system efficiencies in the 70-80%+ range. The fuel for CHP systems is most commonly natural gas, which can yield a climate benefit over grid power, especially considering the enhanced thermal efficiency. A key consideration in CHP deployment is identifying the right application – a constant electric and heating/cooling load. Breweries, universities, hospital complexes, are all suitable applications. Excess steam in the summertime can be used for absorption chilling for cooling loads. For more information, see the full policy brief.
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Some theory – weapon and shield selection
One of the early decisions for a lot of melee – heck, let's remember I've got a shaman and stay with that tight a focus – is whether it's better to go for one hand weapon plus shield or for two hand weapon.
I wrote, and just killed, a huge post. I hope you're happy (grin). Let's do this straight by starting with the conclusion.
The general rule is that you are better served by taking the two hand weapon over one hand and shield. CAVEATS: Talents and enchantments, of course. And assuming we're talking a pair of weapons of nominal equal level. And if your shield has an armor value of 8.5% or better of your armor cap, you're probably better off with the one hand and shield. Finally, and not insignificant, I'm talking levels below 40. Now let's walk the numbers, ok?
Let's start with a finding I made. In general, when you compare sibling weapons (ie, a one vs two hand of equal level and type) the two-hander will have approximately 25% more DPS than the one hander. That means (in reversal) that the one hander has approximately 2/3 the DPS of the two hander. (tighter example. If the one hander has a DPS of ~15, it's sibling two hander's DPS will be approximately 20.)
What this means is that we can kill things approximately 25% faster with the two hander than with the one hander. BUT… we are giving up armor to do so. Now, people get really confused about armor. See, a given armor value adds less armor mitigation as it's added to higher levels of preceding armor. However, a given armor value adds approximately the same amount of bonus time to live (time till you die) regardless of whether it's your first armor or it's what takes you to the cap. In this situation, the time to live is what matters.
If I kill things 25% faster, then this is good if my TTL decreases by less than 25%, and bad if my TTL decreases by more than 25%. Fortunately this turns out to be an easy thing to check.
Assume your base time to live is at zero armor. At your armor cap – 75% armor mitigation – your TTL is 400% your base TTL. Now since the increase is 300%, and since armor points increase TTL linearly, we do not have to do any fancy calculations to figure out what reduces us by 25% TTL. In fact…
Armor cap for levels 1-59 is simplified as 1455 * level (of attacker). That is, a level 20 facing other level 20s needs 29100 armor points to have 75% damage reduction which is 400% base TTL. Now for the magic trick…
29100 / 300 = 97. So every 97 armor points is a 1% change in TTL for a level 20.
Using the two hander kills 25% faster. 25 * 97 means that unless my shield has 2425 armor points, I am better off with the two hander — My increase in killing the mob is greater than it's increase in speed of killing me. oh, by the way… 2425/29100 = 8.3333…% And final by the way – as a level 20, the "best" armor value shield you can have is the crest of Darkshire, with a whopping 661 Armor. That's a 6.8% TTL change.
OK, let's get into all those caveats.
Talents and enchantments, which include the bonuses on the weapon and the shield. The biggest and most obvious is with a two hander you get one enchantment slot, while with one-hand and shield you potentially get two. This might not be insignificant, though it mostly boils down to modifying one of two values – speed of killing and time to live. The latter by increasing your stamina or your armor, the former by increasing your damage potential. Pretty easy, right? Talents… whoo, boy. Pick up a talent that adds damage to one handers, and it definitely changes things. Same deal is, for example, being a warrior who fights in defense stance. The shield matters, suddenly.
Pretty obvious is that this doesn't apply if your weapons are of equivalent level. I mean, if you've got a twink dagger and a basic green two-handed axe, the dagger's DPS may be a far and away winner. But I expect you to be reasonable here.
Also, and coming back to the talents and such, once you break 40 your abilities — and more importantly the synergy of all the pieces — may make the base rule inapplicable. Of course, once you're level 60 or better the armor rules change again, too. I'm going to leave that alone for now – I'm low level on this character, I'm just going to do the low level work.
Final caveat not mentioned above – all this is assuming solo work. When you're in a group, sometimes your GROUP will work better if you give up your uber ability. That slight edge in TTL may mean the group blasts through mobs faster since there's less stopping for the priest to regain mana, spent racing to keep you the tank alive… yeah. There is no hard and fast rule, here. Recognize the exceptions and adjust accordingly.
But still… in general, for solo work two handed weapon beats one hand plus shield. Just something to consider…
Go have fun.
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But also consider in a group that if you aren't the tank and you control your threat you shouldn't be taking damage, so the more you can output the less the Tank will take, thus saving the healer mana. Interesting assessment but as a Warrior I would probably always stick with 2hand or dual wield. As a Shaman it becomes more interesting because you are in leather armor and thus have a much lower TTL then a plate wearer. Even though you stated TTL is linear the difference between 200% base TTL and 230% base TTL is greater then 300% to 330%. So while the time it takes to kill you increases linearly (that is how I read what you posted) the % increase in TTL is not linear.
I just leveled my enhancement shaman to 41 and I can say that an increase of 25% of the DPS of my weapon is not an increase of 25% of my DPS. Shocks, lightning shiled, searing totem…all of these things are part of my overall DPS. In fact a 25% increase in my weapon DPS is probably a lot closer to 10% increase in my DPS. The slower weapon speed also means less crits which reduce the mana cost of my shocks. Without giving it a ton of math I chose 1 handed and shield up to 40(dual weild) for these reasons.
Hmm, wowwiki claims that the armor formula is:
DR% = Armor / (Armor + 400 + 85 * AttackerLvl)
Which, for level 20, would work out to an armor cap of 6300. Wowwiki also claims the cap against level 70 is 31,672. So to live 25% longer (the difference in time to kill between *equivalent* one-handed and two-handed weapons), you'd need 1/12th of that amount of armor from a shield, or about 525 armor.
Of course, this assumes that you're equally happy killing a mob at 80% of the speed that you would with a 2H weapon, and that you have equivalent one-handed and two-handed weapons available.
It also assumes dual-wield is not an option, since dual-wield generally does equal DPS with 2H without any damage-boost or to-hit talents. With to-hit or extra off-hand damage, it pulls ahead substantially in many cases.
[…] appropriate response to Calandris Rereading my response to Calandris in the 2h vs 1+Shield post, I realize I came off a bit brusk. Worse, it looks like I ignored a big chunk of what he said. […]
Calandris, I can understand your reasoning for a 1-hander from 20-29. But I don't see it post 30 if you're actually relying on meleeing.
Windfury is huge, and it only costs mana once every 30 minutes. Between its 3-second cooldown and its lack of normalization (your AP gets converted to damage at the speed of the weapon you are actually wielding, as opposed to a convenient stand-in number) it encourages big, slow weapons, especially since the extra swings also get a non-normalized AP boost. Ideally you'd pick one up with a speed of 3.9 or higher, since that would let you have a Windfury chance every swing even with Flurry up.
Of course, there's only a couple weapons like that in the under level 40 range, one of which is about a 1/6 chance from a rare mob on a 20+ hour respawn timer and the other requires level 39.


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As more and more Israelis get called up for active military duty in preparation for a possible invasion of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, the chief rabbi of the Israeli army (IDF) has been posting inspirational scriptures to his Twitter feed.
Among the scriptures posted yesterday was Zechariah 12:10, a passage Christians and Messianic Jews see as pointing to Yeshua as Messiah.
"And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication."
Due to Twitter's space limitations, the rabbi's post stopped there. The verse continues:
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If President Barack Obama isn't happy with his press coverage in the United States, he ought to take a look at how he's being portrayed in the Arab media.
As Obama steps up his push for congressional authorization for a strike on Syria, the president is coming under withering criticism by opinion leaders throughout the Middle East, according to a review by POLITICO and experts of Arabic- and English-language media in the region.
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The Obama bashing can be categorized in several ways: Those who charge the president's needlessly dragging his feet; conspiracy theorists who argue it's all a plot to boost Israel; and others who claim that any military operation in Syria is motivated only by the U.S.'s interest in dominating the region.
The increasingly unfavorable coverage Obama's receiving in the Arab world - even come from the press in countries that support U.S. intervention in Syria - is doing harm to his image and influence, as well as further diminishing how America is perceived in the region, experts say. It hits especially hard coming at a time when Obama is looking anywhere he can, at home and abroad, to find allies for his plan to punish the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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In an open letter on Sept. 1 to Obama published on Al Arabiya, based in Dubai and considered one of the top Arab news outlets, popular columnist Nasser al-Sarami said a military strike is "the last chance" that Obama has to improve his image and credibility. "Strike at all the jihadi terrorist gatherings and the murderous regime…Mr. Obama, quite frankly, we do not have anyone other than you," al-Sarami wrote, according to a translation by Voice of America.
Arab media experts said news outlets in Saudi Arabia have led the charge on calling on Obama to act, and Al Arabiya is considered to mostly align with the Saudi perspective.
In a sharply critical piece, Tariq Al-Homayed wrote recently in the London-based newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat that "it is not surprising that Assad continues to commit his crimes against Syria and the Syrians, for Assad's strength stems from Obama's weakness," according to a translation by the Middle East Media Research Institute.
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Michael Young, the opinion editor of the moderate English-language Lebanese newspaper the Daily Star, offered his view that Obama's legacy is at risk as Syrians are "killed in droves."
"America has rarely seemed so indolent in the face of barbarism," Young said in the Aug. 23 piece. "Is Assad right in expecting no better than empty posturing from Washington? Or will the most overrated of American presidents be shamed into action, if only to salvage his collapsing reputation?"
While the White House and the America media are focusing on Obama's "red line" against the use of chemical weapons as a justification for military action, the Arab media has shown little interest in that rationale as a basis for the attack. For them, a line was crossed long ago with the killing of large numbers of civilians by conventional means, Arab media experts said.
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"Obama sat in his oval office for two and a half years, counting the tens of thousands of Syrian victims," wrote Elias Harfoush in the pan-Arab and generally pro-Western Al-Hayat, which is based in London, according to a translation by The Times of Israel on Sept. 1. "What has the US president done in this period? Nothing! Until last August with a slip of the tongue he made the 'mistake' of warning Bashar Assad against crossing the 'red line' of using chemical weapons against his people."


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"Hocus Pocus" wasn't originally the family-friendly movie we've all come to love as a Halloween staple.
Writer Mick Garris has reflected on the making of "Hocus Pocus" to EW, revealing that it was titled "Halloween House" when he started working on it, and Steven Spielberg was potentially interested.
"He loved it until he found out that Disney was already involved. At that time, Disney and Amblin (Entertainment) were very competitive in the family-film market, so neither of them wanted to be in business with the other," Garris explained.
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"Ninety-seven percent of scientists agree:#climate change is real, man-made and dangerous," President Barack Obama tweeted last Thursday, May 16.
The president was cheering on the media-drawn bandwagon for the latest round of global warming "consensus" puffery. John Cook, an Australian blogger/global warming activist, has President Obama and all the usual climate alarmists in academia, the media, and the Big Green NGOs twitterpated over his latest "research," which purports to prove that the scientific world is virtually unanimous in declaring that anthropogenic global warming (AGW) — that is, human-caused global warming — is a dire and imminent existential threat.
Certainly "97% of scientists" is an impressive-sounding claim. But is it accurate? As we shall see, this supposed near unanimity of science evaporates like H2O over a Bunsen burner as soon as it is subjected to scrutiny.
"Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature" by John Cook and his team at the Global Change Institute, was published in Environmental Research Letters. Many of the headlines pointing to this study in newspapers, television news broadcasts, and Internet websites led with the same 97 percent claim, same as President Obama. Some of them were a bit more careful than others to qualify that figure based on what the study said, but it would still take a careful reader to recognize that they weren't saying the same thing as the occupant of the White House.
The story by Rik Myslewski of the British newspaper The Register is a typical example. The Register's main headline read: "Climate scientists agree: Humans cause global warming." But sub-headline immediately beneath says: "Of those who have an opinion, over 97% say we're to blame."
The crucial point here is the qualifying clause, "of those who have an opinion." In other words, even the highly questionable Cook study doesn't actually claim, as President Obama does, that "Ninety-seven percent of scientists agree." In fact, when examined closely, one finds that the study says only one-third of the authors of the published research papers they examined expressed an opinion that the Cook team interpreted as either an implicit or explicit endorsement of AGW. So now its 97 percent of one-third of selected scientists in a sampling of research papers. That's a far cry from the 97 percent of all scientists claimed by President Obama and many of the media stories. And, as we will show below, even this admitted dramatically lower consensus claimed by the study is fraught with problems and falls apart further under examination.
The Consensus Con Game
The Cook study has already been taken apart and refuted in a number of blogs and articles. One of the critical scientists to take an early look at Cook's suspicious claims was Dutch chemist and science journalist Marcel Crok, who points out many of the problems — here — concerning the Cook study's misleading selection, categorizations, and descriptions of alleged endorsers of AGW.
A major reason for the supposed importance of the Cook study is that it claims to be based on surveying abstracts of "over 12,000 peer-reviewed climate science papers," published in the period 1991-2011, which would be an impressive sampling. But it turns out not to be so striking after all. Firstly, even most of the climate catastrophe skeptics readily concede that human production of CO2, along with other human activities, may have some impact on global temperatures. The question is how significant is the human contribution.
Only 65 (!) Abstracts in Cook Study of 12,000 Strongly Endorse AGW!
On that question there is a wide divergence of opinion in the realist/skeptic community — just as there is also a similarly wide divergence among the AGW believer scientists. Blogger Brandon Shollenberger appears to have been the first to have uncovered the Big Secret of the Cook charade: When stripped down to the bare truth, the actual number of studies in the Cook sampling that can be said to endorse the position that human activity is responsible for most of the experienced global warming is — get ready for this (drum roll …) — sixty-five. Yes, 65, or around half a percent, not 97 percent! And this miniscule number of strong endorsers is actually less than the number of skeptical scientific papers included in the Cook study.
One of the issues that has dogged many of the leading purveyors of AGW alarmism in recent years is the accusation that they have refused to provide the public, other scientists, or even the government oversight agencies responsible for their funding, with the alleged research on which they base their extreme predictions. With far-reaching public policy at stake, including hundreds of billions (even trillions) of dollars, the circle of critics has become larger, more vocal, and insistent that the taxpayer-funded alarmist researchers supply this data. The lame excuses given by the likes of Michael Mann, Phil Jones, James Hansen, and the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for failure to make their research available has embarrassed and outraged even many of the alarmists' supporters.
To his credit, Cook posted the results of his study, including his source material and an interactive feature allowing researchers to check his work. Perhaps he thought no one would actually make use of the opportunity, or if they did so they wouldn't figure out the scam. When it comes to the vast majority of "science writers" in Big Media, Cook's gamble paid off like a slot machine rigged for a bonanza payout. But independent scientists and analysts quickly saw through the cooked books. Shollenberg notes that Cook's Skeptical Science website "recently invited people to rate the 12,000+ abstracts via Skeptical Science's interactive rating system so people could 'measure the climate consensus' themselves. An additional feature of the system allows users to view the abstracts, as well as the ratings given by the people behind the paper."
Shollenberger continues:
The guidelines for rating these abstracts show only the highest rating value blames the majority of global warming on humans. No other rating says how much humans contribute to global warming. The only time an abstract is rated as saying how much humans contribute to global warming is if it mentions:
that human activity is a dominant influence or has caused most of recent climate change (>50%).
Shollenberger goes on:
If we use the system's search feature for abstracts that meet this requirement, we get 65 results. That is 65, out of the 12,000+ examined abstracts. Not only is that value incredibly small, it is smaller than another value listed in the paper:
Reject AGW 0.7% (78)
Remembering AGW stands for anthropogenic global warming, or global warming caused by humans, take a minute to let that sink in. This study done by John Cook and others, praised by the President of the United States, found more scientific publications whose abstracts reject global warming than say humans are primarily to blame for it.
The "consensus" they're promoting says it is more likely humans have a negligible impact on the planet's warming than a large one.
Shollenberger's discovery, as important as it is, is far from being the only major problem with the celebrated Cook study. Australian researcher/blogger Jo Nova, as usual, provides a very incisive column, "The twelve clues that good science journalists ought to notice," that fairly eviscerates Cook — and the media mavens who unquestioningly accepted his deceptive offering.
One of the important points made by Nova is that the research methodology used by the Cook team to select abstracts for review was flawed from the start. Cook, et al, used the key words "global climate change" or "global warming" in searching the data base to assemble their sampling of research papers. But Nova pointed out:
Keywords searches may miss the most important skeptical papers.
Keyword searches are more likely to turn up "consensus" papers. Many skeptical papers don't use the terms "global warming" or "global climate change": eg Svensmark (1998), Douglass (2007), Christy (2010), Loehle (2009), and Spencer (2011). Were they included? Perhaps they were, but they don't appear to match the search terms in the methods. These are just a few seminal skeptical papers that might have been missed.
As it turns out, Nova was spot on. In a subsequent post, she reported that other researchers had confirmed that all of the important skeptical studies she had cited were indeed "missed" by Cook and his vaunted research team. Hardly a sound endorsement of Cook's dependability. "I randomly checked my top list of major skeptical articles and had no difficultly coming up with those 6 papers," says Nova. "I could have come up with many more if I bothered to keep opening papers and searching for keywords. He has missed many skeptical articles. And that would matter if the study was worth doing in the first place."
Special mention should be made of the proper trashing of the Cook AGW propaganda by Spiegel Online, the German flagship news magazine, one of the few exceptions in the Big Media to subject Cook's claims to critical examination, rather than merely regurgitating and amplifying his talking points.
Speigel reporter Axel Bojanowski hit on a number of key points, including another study by the University of Mainz in Germany that surveyed climate scientists and came up with decidedly different results than Cook. According to the Mainz survey, reports Bojanowski, "Only 59% of the scientists said the 'climate development of the last 50 years was mostly influenced by man's activity. One quarter of those surveyed said that human and natural factors played an equal role.'"
Moreover, as Bojanowski notes, scientific skepticism is even far more widespread when it comes to the reliability of the computer models that are being used to predict climate change. "Only 10% said climate models are 'sufficiently accurate' and only 15% said that 'climatic processes are understood enough' to allow climate to be calculated," Bojanowski reported.
The Media Should Have Been Skeptical
The so-called mainstream media should have been skeptical of the Cook study from the start. John Cook is well known for cooking the books when it comes to climate issues. Cook runs the blog site SkepticalScience, a deceptive misnomer, since he fanatically endorses and practices AGW alarmism and has failed to express the slightest skepticism regarding even the most outlandish catastrophic climate predictions. While not a climate scientist himself, Cook very unscientifically and unprofessionally disparages distinguished climate scientists who are skeptical of claims of catastrophic climate change. He calls the skeptics "deniers" and "denialists." In 2011, Cook co-authored Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand with Haydn Washington. The "denier" label is a particularly vicious form of character assassination, attempting to link scientific AGW skepticism with Nazi Holocaust denial. The Cook book also claims that the scientists who disagree with AGW alarmism are part of the corrupt "denial industry funded by the fossil fuel companies that literally denies the science, and seeks to confuse the public."
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Saying goodbye to Penone's Cedro di Versailles
June 19th, 2012
Five thousand kilograms is a whole lot of cedar. That's what the crew in this video had to contend with when they removed Giuseppe Penone's Cedro di Versailles from the AGO on Feb. 15, 2012.
Cedro di Versailles is an awe-spiring work that stood as the centrepiece of Penone's exhibition in the Galleria Italia, The Hidden Life Within. His tree-centric works, on loan from a private collector, were chosen to christen the Galleria when it opened after TransformationAGO in 2008. They remained in the light-filled space, lending it vitality and wonder, until February.
Listen to Penone talk about his work at an AGO Meet the Artist event here.


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Thursday, 11 November 2010
I threw away our scale!
1. My running times don't correlate to what I weigh
2. With a more intense training regimen, including weight lifting, I am going to gain muscle
3. I look and feel better now than I did two years ago, when I weighed 2 kilos less
4. Knowing that I am going to get up and weigh myself makes me do unhealthy things like skip dinner, eat less vegetables (because they weigh more) and drink less water.
5. I have had no trouble fitting into the same pants despite weighing more and that's a better indicator of how things are going than a scale
6. With all of this training (see below), I would seriously have to eat a tofu cow a day anyway to become overweight.
7. Living in energy deficit causes too many health problems - I don't want to lose my period again. Period. Well, I do want to lose it, actually, for nine months...
(BTW, I just read yesterday in the Danish medical journal Ugeskrift for læger, much to my dismay, that the bone density you lose while amenorrheic doesn't ...ever come back)
What a liberating feeling to not even think about the scale! Thanks, Amy.
In other news, I am having such fun designing the optimal training regimen. Take a look at this week:
Sun: Run 30k
Mon: Swim tempo: 35 laps, Cycle 1 hour 15 minutes
Tues: 2 mile warm up, 8 mile tempo run (7:06 min/mile), 1 mile limp home
Wed: 55 min. Body Pump (weight lifting for all major muscle groups to music), 45 min stair climb, 50 min. yoga
Thurs: 16.5 mile run divided into 10.5 miles, 2 hour break for work and lunch (with study friends including a guy who just identified a new retro virus in humans - which he thinks is the origin of some prostate cancer), 6 miles (Tried to do all 16.5 in 9 min/mile pace - which happened the first 14 miles, but then my stomach started bothering me and I got lazy)
---- the above has already happened-----
Fri: Swim intervals, step/core class
Sat: 1 hour spinning
Sun: 26 miles training run (Rudersdal social marathon) - I have decided to switch to the 4.5 hour group since it is on trails and this is just distance training, not a race. Plus I want to enjoy the pretty ruote.
Total running miles planned over 8 days: 26 + 16.5+ 10 + 18: 68.5 miles
What a jam-packed week. Is it too much? Will it work? Only time will tell.
Running songs of the day:
These are both great for running and are Danish, so a lot of you haven't heard them -
Maybellene i Hofteholder by Volbeat (it is in English, despite the title)
Selvmord på Dansegulvet by Thomas Holm
16 comments:
- Danni said...
I have to admit, I am totally floored. Right on.
- 11 November 2010 at 22:54
- amy said...
From someone who used to weigh herself obsessively and agrees it's an unhealthy habit,
- 11 November 2010 at 23:15
- cherelli said...
nice work on throwing away the scales...I know I've been eating more lately and not balancing it with movement so I have chosen to avoid the scales at the gym because I know stepping on them won't make me feel better! Nice week of training....BUT - where's the rest and recovery day? That is training (mental training for an exerciser such as yourself!) too....
- 11 November 2010 at 23:26
- Ewa said...
OK, I admit, I don't think I can part with my scale. I totally understand what you are saying but I am addicted. Maybe I'll make it my New Year resolution. :)
- 11 November 2010 at 23:33
- Stefanie Schocke said...
As a former eating disorder sufferer, aah, I understand the scale issue! But I cannot give it up! I just have to weight myself (no matter how unhealthy) to make sure I haven't gained weight.
What a hardcore week. You are amazing!!!!
- 12 November 2010 at 00:15
What at crazy training week (though I have to second cherelli - where is your R&R for the week?)! How on earth do you fit it all in? :-) Good for you throwing out the scale. I have hidden ours on occasion but must admit that I really dislike giving it up for any length of time. Way to go!
- 12 November 2010 at 03:06
- Glaven Q. Heisenberg said...
I threw away my clock because - WAIT FOR IT!1! - I wanted to see time fly!1!
Har! I bet that joke hasn't made it to Denmark yet! Probably because it doesn't translate well into Denmarkese. The best Denmarkian translation of it I ever read was :
"Hoonga Doonga Glooberfluss Weltanschauung Die Fledermaus".
Pfffttt! That's not funny.
It's just some fat guy's translation. Idiot probably threw his scale away.
- 12 November 2010 at 17:11
- SteveQ said...
I still weigh myself once a month (and obsessive that I am, first thing on the first Monday of each month), just because about once a year or so I go back to see if there's a trend - I write the number down and forget it immediately. So I guess I'm obsessively non-obsessive about it. That's about as healthy as I can get.
- 12 November 2010 at 17:23
this post makes me so happy. you have such a healthy attitude and outlook.
I haven't weighed myself in...over 2 years. It's terrifying but everytime I so much as get curious and step on I scale relapse driving everyone around me (particularly my boyfriend) crazy.
- 12 November 2010 at 21:26
- sea legs girl said...
Actually, if I had to eat a cow, it would be a dark chocolate one, I think.
I like how I spelled route ruote.
Glaven - did you go and learn Danish just for me? But it's actually fledermausen and not Die Fledermaus.
- 12 November 2010 at 22:09
- Karen said...
A dark chocolate cow sounds delicious!
Nice job on giving up the scale. I've never been able to do that.
- 12 November 2010 at 23:56
- cherelli said...
I'm sorry, i stepped away for a minute...did someone say DARK CHOCOLATE???? Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
- 13 November 2010 at 15:58
Good post. I love reading your blog.
- 14 November 2010 at 04:49
- Drs. Cynthia and David said...
Yeah, you don't need a scale. You can tell enough by how you feel and how your clothes fit. I like your plan- you've got a lot of crosstraining in there and some low impact stuff that looks really helpful for strength building without inordinate stress. Do you have any particular plan to assess progress and fitness or just race performance?
- 14 November 2010 at 12:21
- sea legs girl said...
Thanks Anon - super cool you let me know.
Cynthia - oh I am glad that you were not mad at my reply and that we are still friends. It turns out, we probably mostly agree.
The most important measures I have of success are performance times on training runs/swims/bike rides. Races are also really good, but harder to compare to each other or interpret performance from.
- 14 November 2010 at 21:20
- Kate said...
yea you!
okay, just my little humble opinion here, but this has got to be the smartest and best thing you've done for yourself in a long time!
surely you will not regret it.
- 15 November 2010 at 19:20


text: BOICEVILLE, N.Y. -- Gay former Onteora High School student Liam Kahn has settled his civil rights lawsuit against the district for abuse he contends was allowed by administrators and staff. The case in U.S. District Court in Albany was settled about two weeks ago, with Kahn's attorney Stephen Bergstein on Wednesday saying terms of the agreement were confidential. "Both sides usually have an interest in keeping it quiet, especially the ones that are paying out the money because the concern always is that other people will sue and they're going to be hit with lawsuits and people will think it's easy money when it's actually not," Bergstein said. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court, claimed bullying continued for five years, ending only when Kahn dropped out of school in 2011. He was scheduled to graduate in June 2012. The lawsuit named the school district, Onteora High School Principal Lance Edelman and Vice Principal Jess Robertson as defendants. District officials were not immediately available for comment on Wednesday. Bergstein said the inability to discuss the settlement does not mean other students are not being held accountable for allowing bullying. "There are a lot of court decisions that have come down over the last year on school district obligations to stop harassment and protect kids," he said. "I think there is more awareness for students and their parents to know what rights they have." Kahn, who is now 19, in January 2012 was named deputy supervisor for the town of Woodstock. Court papers state that Kahn had been bullied since September 2006, when he was in the seventh grade after classmates found out he was gay. The suit contended that while former middle school Principal Gale Kavanagh did discipline students who harassed Kahn, including suspending one student who later was arrested by state police, there were some teachers who did not respond even when witnessing the harassment. The complaint also contended high school officials told Kahn there was a reactive approach to bullying and cases would be addressed only as they occurred. The suit said Kahn left school "suffering from anxiety, frustration, worry and feelings of victimization by peers" and was "so distraught over the harassment and ridicule that he went several days without sleep."


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The Time Frames of Trading
Over this series of articles, we will walk traders through the multiple-step process of building a trading strategy. The first installment in the series discussed market conditions. This is the second entry, in which we will delve deeper into selecting a time frame for the strategy.
One of the most common questions from new traders is 'What time frame works best?'
After all, there are quite a few different time frames we can work with, aren't there?
Created by James Stanley
Unfortunately, there isn't an easy or direct answer to this question – as any time frame you choose is going to leave something to be desired. That 'something' is the fact that all time frames are lagging; only showing us past prices… which may not be indicative of future prices.
But we can still choose time frames conducive to our goals, and build an analytical approach so that we know the optimal time to employ our strategy and enter trades based on what it is that we want to get out of the market.
And if market conditions do change, risk and money management can help prevent these reversals from completely draining the trader's account.
Use TimeFrames that Match Your Goals
Often times, traders can get conflicting views of a currency pair by examining different time frames. While the daily might be showing an up-trend, the hourly can be showing a down-trend. But which way should we trade it?
This can provide conflicting signals and counter-productive unrest in the trader's mind as they are attempting to line up trades. For this reasons, it's important for the trader to plan the time frames they want to trade as they build their strategies.
In many cases, traders can benefit from using multiple time frames; in an effort to incorporate as much information as possible into their analysis.
Incorporating a longer time frame will allow the trader to see a 'bigger picture' of the currency pair so that they may get an idea of 'general trends,' or the sentiment that may exist; while the shorter time frame chart can be used for plotting the actual trade. This leads into a very popular permutation of technical analysis in which traders incorporate multiple time frames into their approach.
Multiple Time Frame Analysis
By utilizing multiple time frames in their analysis, traders are getting multiple vantage points into the currency pair(s) that they are looking to trade.
A common way of employing multiple time frame analysis is to use a longer-term chart to analyze the trend or general sentiment in the pair, and the shorter-term chart to enter into the trade. Below are two time frames commonly used by 'swing traders,' with the goal of keeping the trade open for anywhere from a few hours to a few weeks.
First, the trader will analyze the general trend in the pair by looking at the Daily Chart, and noticing that price is in the process of making 'lower-lows,' and 'lower-highs.'
(Created by James Stanley)
After the trader has determined the trend, and in the above chart – the trend is decidedly to the down-side (this is determined from the successive lower-lows and lower-highs), the shorter term chart can be investigated so that the trader can look for an opportunity to enter.
The 'swing-trader' will often use the 4-hour chart to look for entries after grading the trend based on the Daily.
(Created by James Stanley)
In this case, the trader would be looking to sell as the Daily chart exhibited a strong down-trend. After dialing in on the 4-hour chart, the trader would notice that a portion of the downtrend had been recently given back as price went up.
Traders can look at this as an opportunity to sell the strong trend seen on the Daily, at a relatively high price (as evidenced on the 4-hour chart).
Which TimeFrames Work Best (with each other?)
When using multiple time frames, it's important to remember that not every time frame will work together accordingly.
If I'm using the daily chart to read trends, but the one-minute chart to enter trades; there is a large element of disconnect between the two time frames. Each daily candle has approximately 1440 one-minute candles, so when I look at the one-minute chart – I am often only seeing what would constitute, at max, one candle on the daily chart. It would be haphazard to read trends on the daily and attempt to place trades on the one-minute chart due to this disconnect.
We suggest a ratio of 1:4 to 1:6between the trend and the entry chart when employing multiple time frame analysis. So, if a trader is looking to enter on the hourly chart, the 4-hour chart can be used for grading the trend. If a trader wanted to enter on the 15 minute chart, the hourly chart can be used for reading sentiment. Below is a table with some common time frames for analysis.
Multiple TimeFrame Analysis Intervals; prepared by James Stanley
Building a Multiple Time Frame Strategy
Many traders are familiar with the term 'the trend is your friend.' One of the more effective ways of analyzing trends is using a longer time frame than the one being used to plot trades.
Let's say, for example – that a trader wanted to enter trades based on Slow Stochastics (as we had outlined in the article How to Trade with Slow Stochastics); but only after confirming trends with the 200 period Simple Moving Average.
So – if price is below the 200 period Simple Moving Average, our trader only wants to look at sell opportunities; and those will be entered with Stochastic crossovers of the %K and %D lines. If price is above the 200 period Simple Moving Average – our trader only wants to buy; and those trades will be entered when the %K crosses above %D on Stochastics.
From the table above, we can see that traders wanting to enter trades on the hourly chart can properly employ multiple time frame analysis by using the 4 hour chart to analyze trends.
So, the first step for the trader is they want to identify the trends; and once again, for the trader using the hourly chart to enter trades the 4 hour chart can provide trend analysis. Our trader pulls up a 4 hour chart and notices that price is, and has been below the 200 period Simple Moving Average; so our trader would only want to be looking at sell opportunities (at least until price went above the 200 on the hourly, in which they would begin looking for long positions).
(Created by James Stanley)
After the trader gets comfortable with trend analysis on the 4 hour chart, they can go down to the hourly to begin looking for trade entries. And because the trend was down on the 4 hour chart, our trader is only looking at potential sell positions.
(Created by James Stanley)
In the chart above, you can see the numerous opportunities that our trader would have had to sell the currency pair based on stochastics. Surely, not every sell position would have worked out profitably for the trader; but that is an impossible goal, as completely avoiding losses is inconceivable. Multiple time frame analysis, however, can increase the probabilities with which one is employing their strategy as it offers the 'bigger picture view' from the longer-term chart so that traders can properly grade sentiment and trends.
Entries are important, but did you know that how you manage your risk is just as crucial? On page 4 of our Building Confidence in Trading Guide we list questions your trading plan should address and answer!
Next: Sentiment Analysis for Forex (60 of 63)
Previous: Unlocking the Secrets of Multiple Time Frame Analysis
--- Written by James B. Stanley
You can follow James on Twitter @JStanleyFX.
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The Orion project welcomes code contributions from the public. This page details setting up a work environment and submitting code changes for review and inclusion by a committer.
Identifying an opportunity
Bug fixes are the most common type of code contribution. For a list of currently-open Orion bugs see the Eclipse Bugzilla database. If a bug's Assignee is an "inbox" name (eg.- "email@example.com") then it has not been assigned to anyone yet, and is a good candidate for investigation. If you observe a bug in Orion that does not already have a bug report for it then be sure to first log a report, and in the initial comment specify that you are investigating a fix for it. The report should be logged up-front so that if the bug is not one that should be fixed (eg.- it is actually working as designed, its component is in the midst of a re-write, etc.), then a committer can add a follow-up comment indicating that the bug is not worth investigating.
New features/enhancements can also be contributed, but for these it is important that a committer comment in its bug report indicate that the feature is desirable. The potential for feature work in any project is limitless, but not all features are good fits, so a feature that was not pre-approved by a committer risks not being ultimately accepted.
Set up a Git repository
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Once you have a user account on GitHub, start by creating forks of the https://github.com/eclipse/orion.client and/or https://github.com/eclipse/orion.server repositories. These repositories will contain the latest Orion code in their "master" branch, and will eventually receive your code changes for submission.
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text: I was always thought to my self that Sydney Barnes was a seam bowler. But reading through his profile on cricinfo, its seems he was similar to Gary Sobers. It looks like used to bowl seamers with the new ball, in a attempt to swing the ball and then bowled leg breaks with the older ball. Also he apparently develop a off break as he got older. So what do we classifly him as a fast bowler or a spin bowler, or just a slow bowler? Also does anyone else have more information on the type of bowler he was.


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Lot 197 - Worsted I - Onion Skins
Lot 197 - Worsted I - Onion Skins
-worsted weight
-100% organic merino wool
-dyed with quebracho
-approx 262yds/240m
-approx 3.5oz/100gm
-gauge around 18-20 sts to 4" on size 6-9 needles
Note: I've done my best to represent the color accurately, but screens do vary.
Depending on the weight packages ship either First Class Mail Parcel or Priority within the US and First Class Parcel International outside the US.
Buckaloo View yarns are all dyed by hand in small batches directly from locally grown or foraged plants as well as various kitchen and garden scraps or from natural extracts.
The nature of plant dyed yarns means that no two dye lots are exactly the same so be sure to purchase sufficient yarn for your project. Colors may even vary slightly from skein to skein within the same lot so you may wish to alternate skeins for a more consistent look in larger projects.
Care instructions: gently hand wash in lukewarm water with a mild pH-neutral soap or wool soak (my favorite is Eucalan.) Some bleeding may occur but won't affect the final color. Use a towel to gently press the excess water out. Do not wring or twist. Lay flat to dry, out of direct sunlight. Always store yarn out of direct sunlight.
Allergen Note: Yarns are produced and stored in an environment that has cats and dogs. Once again, the colors are directly sourced from the materials listed and dyed with shared equipment. Those with severe allergies should be cautious.


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- Super-middleweight
Froch close to agreeing Kessler rematch
Carl Froch looks set to agree a super-middleweight unification showdown with Mikkel Kessler, with the fighters' camps poised to agree terms inside the next week.
IBF champion Froch watched from the television studio as Kessler defeated Northern Irishman Brian Magee earlier this month, and was confident a fight would happen in 2013.
Now Froch's promoter Eddie Hearn has revealed negotiations are well advanced for Froch to attempt to avenge his defeat to the Dane back in April 2010, when he suffered a narrow points victory to lose his unbeaten record.
Froch has made no secret of his desperation to rematch Kessler, and a fight could be agreed by next week. Kessler has agreed to fight Froch on British soil, but has refused to fight in Froch's home town of Nottingham. The clash is instead headed for either London's O2 Arena or the Manchester Arena, with the date likely to be in May or June.
"The fight that is screaming to be made is Froch and Kessler," Froch said. "It's a fight the fans want and both boxers want it too."
He added: "Carl really believes that he can beat Kessler and it is one of only two blots on his record.
"Neither Carl nor Mikkel would box in the interim. Carl's trainer, Rob McCracken, likes him to have a good gap between fights and it means that Carl can go away on holiday in January and go straight into training when he comes back."
Hearn has also revealed a rematch with Lucien Bute, who Froch beat back in May, is on the backburner.
"Lucian wanted the rematch, as any fighter would who believes he can win," Hearn said. "But I have spoken to his promoters and they suggested that they might like another fight first.
"We don't believe that fight makes sense right now. Bute can have the rematch later on or, I believe, he might even end up facing Andre Ward."


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Who here knows what a rocky mountain bighorn sheep is? If you now what this animal is, strap on those pencils to your hands because I will be giving you a lesson on one of these animals right now. Bighorn sheep are also called rams, and they are the animals that are famous for hitting heads as they fight to determine who is leader, or to win a mate. When rams fight, their crashing horns can be heard miles away because when they run to each other, they are running at speeds of up to twenty miles per hour. I know what you must be saying, "how is it that they don't hurt themselves"? The ram has an incredibly hard, and thick skull that prevents any damage or serious injury. Females also have horns, but theirs is much smaller, and less prominent. Did you know that when two rams are fighting they can go at it for two hours or more? It's true, depending on how stubborn or determined a ram is, they will continue fighting until one of them decides to give up and walk away. The winner is obviously seen as the dominate male, and because of this he will also win the mate. If you look at pictures of one of these animals, you will see that their large horns are pretty impressive. So impressive in fact, the horns themselves weigh up to thirty pounds. Now that is pretty wild. So, where you can get front row seats to hear the crashing thunder of two rams fighting? Well, I won't go looking for rams in battle, but if you want to know where they can be found that's easy. The ram can be found in places like Canada, all the way to New Mexico. Remember, they live on mountains, which means they will be a lot harder to spot. You see, because rams inhabit the mountains they have balance like you wouldn't believe. They also have hooves that have a split toe, and this helps them keep their balance. Also, the bottom of each hoof is rough, and because of this, it provides these animals with incredible grip so they don't go sliding down the mountain side. Along with all these amazing qualities, they also have amazing eye site. This means that they will probably see you before you spot them. If you're asking if these animals are related to sheep, I would have to say yes and no. They are closer to the goat then anything else. The size and lifespan for a ram can range between five and six feet, and they can weigh between one hundred, to almost three hundred pounds. Because of their size they only get to live to about fifteen years old. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to realize that these are amazing animals, and that is why I wanted to make a tutorial on "how to draw a ram", step by step. I think you will have fun with this lesson because I drew the fella in a battle stance. Well, that does it for me and for the rest of my drawing day. I hope you enjoyed the time you spent here today. Be sure to come back tomorrow to see what else I have up my sleeve. Peace out people!
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