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If your needs are for a custom installed radar detector than that answer is easy because there is only one unit available today that fits the bill which is the Beltronics Sti-R Plus.
Its the only custom installed radar detector on the market today which utilities Escort & Beltronics M3 platform which in my opinion is the best platform available to date. Its a dual antenna which is completely immune to RDD's (Radar Detector Detectors) so if you travel through areas where radar detectors are banned they can not detect you have a radar detector on.
It's also the only custom installed radar detector which utilizes KA Band Segmentation so you can remove segments of the KA Band that are not used for real police radar which enables it to scan through the frequencies much quicker. Along with KA Segmentation its can also allow you to turn off RDR (Radar Detector Rejection) which normally can delay the detector up to 1/2 second while the detector tries to determine if the alert is a false from a near by leaky radar detector. In an I/O (Instant On) situation this 1/2 second delay could cause the detector to miss one of these quick radar shots.
For Windshield Mounted Radar Detectors there are 3 of the top radar detectors:
Here are our choices for the top 3 windshield mounted radar detectors.
1. Escort Passport Max ($549.95)
2. Escort Redline ($499.95)
3. Valentine 1 ($399.95)
The Escort Passport Max we rate as the best city use radar detector and while it had a rough start with several firmware updates under its belt many original issues have been corrected. The biggest gripe many have with this radar detector is Escorts marketing claims which claimed it was the best radar detector with the maximum range of any other radar detector.
The Escort Max is not the longest range radar detector ever made but it is close to the performance of the Escort Redline which we will discuss later. It is however the most sensitive gps enabled radar detector and does replace the Escort 9500ix as the leader in this category.
For city drivers the use of a radar detector can be a huge annoyance because there are many false alerts that you will encounter. The most common false will be from automatic door openers that share the same frequency of police radar. While these sensors are not looking for speed they are using radar to sense motion and trigger their doors to open when people are walking into the stores.
Sensitive detectors like the Escort Redline or Valentine One will constantly go off because they are so sensitive that they can many times detect these sensors several hundred feet away. I can tell you that running a non gps detector down a main city road with many drug stores or supermarkets the false alerts are almost non stop, Its almost desensitizing that when I see a real threat I can tend to ignore it because I am used to the false alerts in the city.
The Passport Max has an auto learn function that keeps track of your driving and notes every alert it detects in its internal database. AutoLearn technology uses the power of GPS and the exact frequency of the false alert and automatically will reject unwanted door openers and other fixed position false alerts on future passes making it extremely quiet in the city.
If you are looking for the best radar detector to use mostly in the city and you can afford it, The passport max is the best detector for your money.
The Escort Redline is a great detector and there is no doubt about that. If you are a highway driver this unit is awesome and it is the most sensitive windshield mounted radar detector built to date. Its built on the solid M3 antenna platform which is a dual antenna that offers the best off-axis protection available. I have received alerts around hills and curves with no issues with the Redline.
In areas where detectors are not allowed such as Virginia, Washington DC and parts of Canada this detector has been the favorite. Its the only detector in the Top 3 that is undetectable by police RDD's (Radar Detector Detectors) which are devices used to sniff out vehicles using radar detectors in banned areas, If you live in one of these areas and want a radar detector this is the detector to get hands down.
I have seen many videos from customers of ours (See Escort Redline Detailed Review) on the Best Radar Detector's website for videos that will show the Escort Redline detecting threats as far away as 10 miles. This is a crazy sensitive detector and for Highway use this detector is simply the best.
The latest firmware update on the Escort Redline with enhanced RDR/BS options enables you to now have advanced Band Segmentation ability which was once only available on the much higher priced custom installed Beltronics Sti-R Plus. BS (Band Segmentation) allows users to select certain frequency ranges within the KA band to turn on or off. Removing certain bands from the scan that you know are not used in real police radar allows the Redline to scan the KA Band much faster.
RDR (Radar Detector Rejection) option with the new Expert Firmware was not an option you could turn off in previous editions. This option allows the detectors to eliminate False alerts caused from nearby radar detectors in other vehicles. While this works great to eliminate false alerts it causes the detector to pause (Only for Miliseconds) while it determines if the alert is a false or a real threat. The problem is I/O and POP Radar are very fast and having this option on could cause the Redline to not alert to one of these real threats.
Using RDR & BS at the same time almost turbo charges the response time of the Redline (See Escort RDR/BS Video) while not adding many additional false alerts. Since you eliminate segments of the non real police frequencies you can eliminate many of these false alerts and you can use the RDR Off function to dramatically increase the response time of the detector. These are not features the average user should play with without guidance of knowing what is used in their area. We can help with setting up your Redline properly in your area.
So to sum it up if you are a highway driver or live in an area where radar detectors are banned the Escort Redline is the best overall highway performing radar detector.
There could not be a top 3 without it the Valentine One. For many years the Valentine was the leader of the industry and was considered by enthusiasts the best radar detector around. Times have changed and Valentine has let the Redline pass it as the most sensitive detector. Though not far behind the Redline it is still priced cheaper and is still a great value at $399.95.
The Valentine 1 is a highway radar detector like the Escort Redline. It does not have the stealth capability that the Redline has so if you are in a Virginia, Washington DC or parts of Canada where detectors are banned this is not the detector for you.
What is does have that makes it special is two separate antenna's (One in the Front and one in the Rear) so the valentine can help pin point the direction where the signal is stronger to give you an idea where the signal is coming from. The Valentine is the only detector with a front and rear antenna which can help alert you to the direction of the threat.
You can also check out the how to choose a radar detector on the AL Priority USA site.


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Dates: 24th July - 12th August 2019.
Salary: £1,320 - £1,1440 based on an average of 11 days of timetabled sessions.
This is an exciting and well-paid opportunity for enthusiastic and committed teachers to work with high achieving students from prestigious Hong Kong schools this coming summer.
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The Excel Academy has successfully delivered high quality English curriculum enhancement programmes to some of Hong Kong's highest achieving schools for the last 23 years. As we enjoy a close relationship with our schools, each of our programmes is tailor-made, based on action research.
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Law School Mentor Program
At New England Law, we understand the challenges students face as they transition into law school. To help ease this adjustment, first-year students may enroll in the mentor program.
Each year, current students at New England Law volunteer their time and experience to assist and mentor incoming first year students with their transition to law school. The purpose of the legal mentors program is to provide new first year students with not only a resource, but a support network here at New England Law. Current students can be invaluable by offering advice and guidance regarding managing the rigors of the first year. To ensure a smooth transition for incoming students, these law mentors contact their mentees prior to the first day of orientation.
Mentors and mentees are matched through a detailed process where the students' home state, undergraduate university, areas of legal interest, hobbies, and general interests are considered. We hope that the relationships that are formed through the Mentor Program will not only benefit students through their first year, but through law school and beyond in their legal careers.


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The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is the official destination marketing organization of Southern Nevada, promoting tourism, conventions, meetings and special events.
The LVCVA operates the Las Vegas Convention Center and Cashman Center, featuring millions of square feet of meeting, event and convention space.
More than 42 million visitors a year. Billions of dollars in tourism revenue.Tourism drives the Las Vegas economy. And the LVCVA has the statistics to prove it.
The LVCVA is constantly developing programs to expand and empower Las Vegas' influence as a global tourism and hospitality leader.
The LVCVA promotes the growth of the economy of all of Southern Nevada, including efforts for the extended areas outside the Las Vegas Valley including Laughlin, Mesquite, Boulder City, Primm and Jean.
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How did Las Vegas become the glittering global tourism destination you see today? It's a long story. And the LVCVA is just the organization to tell it.


text: Oh Russia, land of fascists, suicidal kids, and sexually confused homophobes, you never cease to entertain us. Your dash cams are an endless source of joy and amazement and terror and, most often, just confused emotions. Here's the latest one: A car pushes a police car out of the road, ending a chase A-Team style.


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Biopharmaceuticals are medical drugs which are produced with the help of biotechnology. The US is the largest market for biopharmaceuticals and is the leader in terms of revenue, by a substantial margin. The biopharmaceutical market can be classified based on the class of the medical drug into recombinant proteins, monoclonal antibodies and purified proteins. Based on the therapeutic applications, biopharmaceuticals can be classified as blood factors, thrombolytic agents, hormones, hematopoietic growth factors, interferon's and vaccines.
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The US biopharmaceutical market was valued at USD 90 billion and is estimated to grow with a CAGR of 11%. The US accounts for more than half the production of biopharmaceuticals in the world. The biopharmaceutical market is expected to grow in the coming years because of certain concrete drivers for the market. Firstly, the launch of newer and advanced products at short intervals gives consumers a variety to choose from and increases its consumption. Secondly, the percentage of population beyond the age of 65 has been growing steadily and they are the primary consumers of biopharmaceuticals. Also the approval for newer indications of existing therapies and drugs has helped in the growth of the market.
The high cost associated with biopharmaceutical medicines is a major hindrance to the growth of the market. To make it commercially more viable, the cost needs to be reduced. Also there are several cases of unwanted side effects of biopharmaceuticals which have left a negative impression in the market about these products. Also the approach people have to biopharmaceuticals is that of a secondary line of action. Biopharmaceuticals have to enter the mainstream of medicines for its sustained growth.
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The approval for additional indications is a very strong opportunity to tap newer markets. There is still a section of the population that is unaware about the pros and cons of biopharmaceuticals and hence deter from using it. This market needs to be penetrated in order to increase the growth of the market. All biopharmaceuticals could be developed to cure diseases which till now were incurable. This would be the biggest opportunity that the market could have.
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Creating and Printing Large Format Posters (Plotting)
Large Format Posters
Posters need to be designed and created in a manner that best communicates your message in a visual, graphical manner, so the viewer can quickly discern your message and determine whether she/he needs to read more or move on to the next poster.
PowerPoint is one of the programs of choice for creating posters because Power Point is a user-friendly program and is readily compatible with other Microsoft programs such as Word, Excel, and Access. Other software packages that can be used for posters include (but are not limited to) Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and FreeHand; Corel Presentations; and Microsoft Publisher.
Two common ways to create a poster in Power Point are:
1. Create a poster from scratch
2. Create a poster from an existing PowerPoint file
The following tutorial will help you to create a large format poster in PowerPoint
Create a Poster.
Guidelines for Plotting
Two large format poster printers(called "plotters") are available at the IT Help Desk (Quentin Burdick Building 150) for specialty printing. Color laser printing is also available in the clusters. TLMC learning assistants can assist customers in setting up their print projects and sending them to the IT Help Desk plotters or cluster printers.
Size Specifications
Two plotters for printing large posters are available at the IT Help Desk in Quentin Burdick Building 150. One plotter prints 36" wide and the other 42" wide. Posters can be up to 72" long. The plotters (poster printers) cannot print all the way to the edge of the paper. Therefore, all posters must have a 1/2-inch margin on the sides. This means that the "printable area" is 41 inches wide for 42-inch posters, and 35 inches wide for 36 inch posters.
Using Images
Always use the largest, highest quality images when creating large posters for plotting. Almost always, images lose quality when they are enlarged.
Resolution should be set to 144 pixels per inch or higher.
Software and File Formats for Plotting
The following software programs are commonly used to create and/or save plots and are available in the TLMC lab:
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe InDesign
- PowerPoint
- Adobe Acrobat
*The TLMC does not support Corel software.*
In Photoshop, saving your file in native Photoshop format (psd) will retain the highest quality and the layers for further editing.
TLMC staff will assist you with saving your file in the best format for sending to the plotters. Adobe Acrobat is most often used to convert the file to pdf format, a format that usually ensures accurate plotting.
Call the TLMC at 231-5130 or stop by Quentin Burdick Building 150C.


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X-Ray for Movies & TV Shows lets you access actor bios, background information, and more from the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) directly onscreen.
X-Ray for Movies and TV Shows is available for selected Amazon Video titles on the following devices:
If a movie or TV show has X-Ray available, you'll see an X-Ray options in the player window.
While a video is playing, X-Ray "Quick View" details display in-time with the video playback anytime you interact with the player window. Selecting View All pauses the video and allows you to view all available X-Ray details for that video.
Note: To hide or unhide the X-Ray panel while streaming from the website, select the X-Ray icon in the top left. Hiding/un-hiding X-Ray persists through to the next time you watch an X-Ray compatible video.
Note: X-Ray features are only available with an HTML5 web player. To learn more, go to System Requirements for Computers.
Here are some of the features available with X-Ray:
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"I think people could start killing just because people LOOK Muslim."
I think you are a little too paranoid.
Like it hasn't happened already. The taxi driver in NY. The gas station worker in Arizona. With all the hate talk like this, it is going to escalate. How long did it take for the Holocaust?? I don't know I am not an historian, I am trying to protect my adult children from wakos that hate a certain a religion and are willing to kill them. For somebody that probably have had both good and bad with that religion,I don't know what all your hatred is about. I feel sorry for you.
Iran wasn't always as you call it "Islamic" it was a beautiful country. I hope you can see it again the way it was. But if we bomb the country because of their leaders craziness you will never see it the way I did. I do not want to offend you but..Khodahafez.(goodbye)if you don't know Farsi.
The taxi driver in NY.
The kid wasn't even racist, he had done volunteer work in the Middle East. He was under some sort of schizophrenia breakdown or drugs...but his background demonstrated he was not motivated by hatred. Regardless, specific isolated cases don't mean anything because those people go to jail and are prosecuted for their crimes. There is no hate talk, it is the truth. Islam is a dangerous venom and we must protect our country. As an Iranian-American and being in contact with other Iranian-Americans, we are not discriminated upon one bit.
If one is looking for something, one can find something in anything. This is why Obama's Presidency is so good, it gives young black kids an opportunity to not use the blame-my-race card and gives them more of a psychological lift to become successful. I agree with you, Iran wasn't always under this brutal regime. We had the Shah and a times of modernity and respect as a nation. I blame the situation on Iran on the evil Mullah's; let's not blame America. Blame the revolution and the people who hijacked our country (Iran) and destroyed it back into the stone ages. What gives me hope is the youth and the mindset of the people now; once this regime goes, Iranians will never go back to Islam. I don't hate anyone; but I don't think we should blame America for anything when America has provided Iranians the chance to be very successful and be the top doctors, lawyers, and whatever hopes a young kid may have...but unfortunately I feel that in order to assist the Iranian people for liberation, military assistance may be inevitable and necessary.
You didn't offend me, that is the whole point about conversation!!! I just don't think see the
"discrimination" you do especially if you live in Los Angeles area?? Remember, one can look for discrimination if one is thinking that everyone else is racist.
Illegals are rational and possess the ability to reason I'm sure. If they discover America no longer honors rights to citizenship to a child born unto illegals maybe they might reconsider crossing the border. It couldn't hurt. The child would be considered the same nationality as it's parents. What's so harmful about that?
My brother in law has the misfortune of working alongside illegals on a regular basis in his profession as a mason. He told me a story this past weekend:
Illegals have a network of contacts to provide false documentation. One individual had been using a false social security number until his checks started to be garnished for child support payments. He didn't have any kids. He told his boss to fire him and he'd back the next day as someone else. Sure enough he showed up the following day with a new identity on paper. Pretty slick, huh?
I monitored illegals in our prison system who were in for everything from rape to murder to auto theft. Were paying through the nose for these 35+ million illegals to sponge off our system. And the money they make: they ship that back to Mexico to support the relatives and put what's left in the bank.
I don't like the immigration politics in Arizona, but in the fairness, the green card and its instructions tell it's owner to "Carry it on your person at all times". That meaning when you are outside your house, you should have the green card, and as a backup, keep a photocopy of it in a safe (with your passport - which you don't need for daily use).
In other places such as Italy and Brazil I've seen people been treated more fairly: it's not just the foreigners or immigrants that should carry an ID by law, it's everyone. It's not just the foreigners who have to provide their fingerprints for IDs, it's also the Brazilians. It's not just the Italians who need an ID when they are outside their house, it's everyone. I don't like being forced to carry an ID, but at least treat people equally: all or no one. Either all should carry an ID (with proof of a status of their nationality included, and NOT just a US driver's license for locals), or make it voluntary.
Let's see, when a green card holder applies for US citizenship and gets it approved, from that moment on they don't have to carry an ID with them. No green card any more, and no US citizen is forced to carry a US passport on their person at all times while in the US. But what if he or she has an accent? Unfortunately that means in practice they have to carry a copy of their naturalization certificate because of the politics above, as the US driver's license is not enough.
Oh, and my advice for anyone still in process of any paperwork: if you only have your passport, keep a copy of it with you (rather than the original) unless you know you'll need the real thing, as replacing the passport can be really expensive (and painful if you have to fly within the country to get a new one). Plus any documentation you've received from USCIS + something showing the alien number.


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Black Gold
Turn scraps and yard waste into useful compost
Grass clippings. Banana peels and orange rinds. Wood chips. Shredded paper and cardboard. Raked leaves. Dryer lint. What do all these have in common? They are organic materials that can easily and inexpensively be combined to create a product useful in your yard, garden and landscaping endeavors: compost.
Approximately 27 percent of the waste that makes its way into landfills is organic, mostly food remnants and yard waste. Not only does organic matter take up space, but it also generates methane gas and leachate (water produced by the decomposition of items containing carbon that becomes contaminated as it travels through the solid waste in a landfill), both of which can be harmful to the environment. Turning organic matter into compost, however, has many benefits — improving and enriching garden soil, helping to retain moisture and reduce the need for watering, and providing nutrients in a medium that requires little or no added fertilizer or pesticides. And, did I mention that it's free?
What is compost? It is essentially organic matter that has been compiled and then decomposed (hence the name: compost) over time. Fungi, bacteria, worms and heat each help to facilitate the decomposition process. You can use a commercial bin, of which there are several types available, a pile, or if your space is limited, you can even use an indoor bin with worms, called vermicomposting. Bins are best if you would like to incorporate food items. An ideal location for a pile has some shade and is approximately one cubic yard (three feet wide by three feet deep by three feet high), but larger or smaller piles will also work.
The best method involves mixing the ingredients in the pile or bin so that dry ingredients come into contact with wet ingredients. Turning or stirring isn't necessary, but it will help add oxygen for the organisms in the pile, speeding decomposition and reducing odors. The proper moisture content to maintain is about that of a damp sponge. Shredding food scraps and lawn waste into small pieces helps them break down faster, while burying food waste under eight to 10 inches of compost aids in decomposition and helps to reduce any unpleasant smells that may attract rodents or even bears. To speed composition, add greens (nitrogen); to avoid odors, add browns (carbon).
Compost is ready to use when it is dark colored and contains no visible food remnants or yard waste. It may be placed around landscape trees, incorporated into your garden soil, or used to fertilize your lawn or planting beds. Whichever way you choose to use your black gold, it will improve your soil and benefit the plant life it supports, while helping to recycle your waste and conserving landfill space.
Compost is relatively easy to make — just add the four key ingredients — and nature will do the rest! Carbon and nitrogen, plus air and water. A ratio of about 30:1 carbon to nitrogen is desirable, but the pile will work without it being exact; the key for a faster decomposition is simply more browns than greens.
Carbon (brown materials): shredded newspaper and junk mail, dry leaves, nut shells, crumbled egg shells, dryer and vacuum cleaner lint, wood chips, branches and twigs with a diameter of ¼ inch or less, and cardboard rolls.
Nitrogen (green materials): fruit or vegetable remnants (cooked or raw), breads and grains, coffee grounds and filters, grass clippings, tea bags, hair and fur, and green leaves.
Certain items that should not be added to your compost bin or pile include meat or dairy items.
Visit your local Cooperative Extension office.
U.S. EPA publication "Backyard Composting: It's only natural," found at www.epa.gov/epawaste/conserve/rrr/greenscapes/pubs/compost-guide.pdf


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The Portland Guardian and Normanby General Advertiser reported on June 19, 1861 a meeting at Hamilton of the Separation Movement. It was the first meeting of its kind in Hamilton following on from a successful meeting in Portland.
Many well known gentleman of the district where there, men whose names still are evident in Hamilton. Messers Skene, Learmonth, McKellar and McPherson were all present.
Despite a campaign that went into 1862, the move to separate was unsuccessful.
An article in The Portland Guardian on March 30, 1953 reflected on what might have been if separation had occurred. The proposed new colony was to be called Princeland with Hamilton as the capital and Portland as the major port. I would have been born in Hamilton, the capital of the state of Princeland, Australia. Imagine!
Talk of separation did not go away as seen in this article from the Guardian in 1921. A push in the Riverina area to separate in the early 1920s saw the suggestion made once again for the south-west of Victoria to also separate.


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A teenager developed pneumonia and was rushed to hospital for treatment for severe lung damage after she contracted tuberculosis from her pet kitten.
Jessica Livings, 19, had to have emergency surgery after she caught TB, what health officials say is among the first cases in the world of humans picking up the disease from cats.
Ms Livings' mother Claire also contracted a dormant form of the disease, the Daily Mail said.
It is thought the pair contracted TB when they were cleaning a wound on their pet, Onyx, which they had adopted only weeks before.
Ms Livings told the newspaper: "I lost a stone and a half in five weeks, I was very ill and had fevers, cold sweats and hallucinations. I didn't realise what was real and what wasn't."
She was reportedly diagnosed with the disease in October after a vet voiced concerns over an outbreak of TB among cats in the the Newbury area of Berkshire.
Ms Livings was readmitted to the Royal Berkshire Hospital last month, but is now classed as being at no risk of passing TB on.
Her mother told the Mail that their kitten became ill and they discovered he had an open wound on his belly. Despite taking him to the vet he died, but they had no idea it was TB.
Vet Carl Gorman, who reported the outbreak, told the Mail he believed it started with a local herd of cows contracting bovine TB.
Public Health England (PHE) this week said that two people in England have developed TB from a cat in the first ever recorded cases of cat-to-human transmission.
PHE has offered precautionary screening to 39 people who may have been in contact with cats infected with the Mycobacterium bovis (M bovis) bacterium, which causes TB in cattle (bovine TB) and in other species.
Of these, 24 people accepted screening. Two were found to have active TB and there were two cases of latent TB, which means they had been exposed to TB at some point but did not have an active infection.
Both people with active TB disease have confirmed infection with M bovis and are responding to treatment.
PHE said there there have been no further cases of TB in cats reported in Berkshire or Hampshire since March 2013 and said it believed the risk of transmission from cats to humans was "very low".
Dr Dilys Morgan from PHE said: "It's important to remember that this was a very unusual cluster of TB in domestic cats. M bovis is still uncommon in cats – it mainly affects livestock animals.
"These are the first documented cases of cat-to-human transmission, and so although PHE has assessed the risk of people catching this infection from infected cats as being very low, we are recommending that household and close contacts of cats with confirmed 'M bovis' infection should be assessed and receive public health advice."
It also emerged that a child under 10 may have been infected with TB by a dog.
The youngster, from Gloucestershire, developed a latent form of the disease last year after the family pet fell ill.
The victim managed to make a full recovery but v ets were forced to destroy the dog after screening the family last year.
If confirmed it would be the first ever case of its kind in the UK, Public Health England (PHE) said.
But a spokesman claimed it was "scientifically impossible" to prove whether the dormant form of TB contracted by the child had come from the dog or another source.
The spokesman said: "A family in Gloucestershire were tested for tuberculosis (TB) last year after their pet dog was confirmed with the bovine form of the infection.
"Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis) is a bacterium that causes bovine TB in cattle and although the organism can infect and cause TB in humans, the risk of infection for the general public is very low.
"Human TB caused by M. bovis accounts for less than 1% of the total TB cases in the UK and it is usually those who work closely with livestock and/or regularly drink unpasteurised (raw) milk who have a higher risk of catching the infection.
"The family is known to have connections to a veterinary practice and this was investigated as a potential source of infection.
"PHE offered TB screening to the family as a precautionary measure. Three family members were negative and one case of latent TB was identified.
"Latent TB means they had been exposed to TB at some point but they did not have active disease. The family member with latent TB completed a three month course of treatment.
"This case differs from that of human TB infection from cats because there two people involved developed active TB and cat to human transmission was confirmed.
"In this case, because the person did not develop active TB, it's impossible to say if they had been exposed to TB by the dog, or some other source."
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Enrollment in Medicare Part D, a federal program to subsidize the costs of prescription drugs for Medicare beneficiaries, begins Oct. 14 and lasts until Dec. 7.
This year seniors will find some changes to the program. The largest being premiums will go up by about $1 and the deductibles will fall from around $325 to $310.
Gayla Ratzlaff, Marion County Department on Aging Coordinator, said Part D is like insurance for people 65 and over to get lower drug prices. Different plans can lower prices of prescriptions drastically.
"Seniors enrolled pay 25 percent of medication costs up to a certain amount, last year, it was $2,800," she said. "Part D plans will pay the rest of the cost."
According to a study released by the Center of Medicare, more than 6.6 million users of Medicare have saved more than $7 billion on prescription drugs. This comes to about $1,000 per beneficiary.
"We encourage people to have a plan and see if their current plan is still good," Ratzlaff said. "During open enrollment last year, we helped 300 people who had questions or wanted to get enrolled in the program. I try to make myself available to help as much as possible."
Those who are enrolled in Part D can pick up their prescriptions at any local pharmacy.
Traci Lanning, pharmacist at Marion Health Mart, said they take every Medicare plan there is.
"Customers can pay their co-pay here and we will help answer any question we can about their policy," she said.
Navigating the Medicare waters can be tricky. Shirley Bowers said she has found a plan that takes care of all her needs.
"It makes a big difference for me," she said. "I pay a small fee a month and get my prescriptions at a low cost. I save significantly."
Bowers said she has one prescription that costs around $60.
"It's high," she said. "Then I talked to my insurance person and he said you're lucky; it would be so much more expensive if you didn't have Part D."
Virginia Downing has a different opinion.
"I don't save a dang thing," she said.
Downing's prescription is not covered by Part D.
"If you're enrolled in Medicare you have to have a policy," she said. "There's a big variance between policies and they change every year. It helps people who take more medication more."


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Here's what I missed. I missed our wedding anniversary—an anniversary with a 5, no less. There was a time when an anniversary ending in 5 or 0 would have brought forth long, loopy, overwritten declarations of love from me. This would have been a good year for them, too. When a man essentially forfeits all summer pleasures to pack and haul a zillion boxes so that his wife can go to law school on the other side of the country, he should be celebrated, noisily and sloppily. I hope I wasn't writing a paper that night.
I missed the presidential election. Considering how much handwringing I did over the last one, you'd think I would have taken a moment to give thanks for the difference four years makes. (I believe I've made my leanings fairly obvious over the years, but in case any questions lingered: My guy won.) The day after the election, of my professors was elated and vaguely tearful, not just because my guy was her guy, too, but also because young adults were such a key part of this election, and she loved, loved that young adults were finally taken seriously, because when she was a young adult, and first becoming politically engaged, young people were not taken seriously. Rather, she said, young adults were largely dismissed, seen as troublesome naifs with no idea of how the world really works, told to stop being so noisy and destructive and to let the real adults make the decisions for them. How I wish I'd written it down while it was fresh. I also wish I'd acknowledged the painful result of the election, the sad and shameful passage of Proposition 8 in California, and the spectacle of millions of dollars of out-of-state money being spent to deprive Californians of true marriage equality.
I missed law school, every last blessed bit of it: How the lion's share of my classmates were born the year I graduated from high school, but they never once made me feel like a dopey, stupid-question-asking, middle-aged killjoy. How it didn't take me long to realize that Everything I Know is Wrong. How I had to learn—fast—how to present an argument and then immediately argue the counterpoint. How I was not looking forward to studying Torts, dismissing the whole body of law as nothing but slip-and-fall cases, and how my mind was changed by my Torts professor, a quick-witted, scarily brilliant, warm and humane woman, who taught me about tort law as one of the earliest vehicles for civil rights. How hard I worked, struggling to make sense of it all. How my grades ranged from the excellent to the shocking, and how I couldn't reconcile how hard I'd worked for that shocking grade, in a class I'd found interesting, for a professor I liked a lot and longed to impress. How I was sure that something was wrong with me. How I was right, but not in a way I'd ever suspected. How I became a Constitution geek, and a Supreme Court geek. How I embarrassed myself in public by yelling at a tv on which Jeff Sessions was explaining why reading a Supreme Court nominee's published legal opinions was not an effective way to determine what sort of Justice that nominee would be, but parsing her speeches was. How thrilling, exhilarating, frustrating, depressing, and funny this whole process is. How I have no idea what I'm going to do at the end of it.
I missed my five-year blogging anniversary. It was on December 1, 2003 that I started writing on the silly yellow page, with absolutely no idea of what I was doing. All I knew at that moment was that after three years of training and researching and business-plan-writing and working my heart out, I would not be opening my bakery. If you had told me that five years from that moment I'd be studying for final exams at a law school 3,100 miles away, I'd have asked you where you got the stuff, and if I could have some, please. The only thing I knew with any certainty was that I did not want PTMYB to be an exercise in solipsism, filled with nothing but meticulous descriptions of the inside of my own head. It embarrasses, writing that now. I cast my eyes over what I've written thus far, and all I can see is I, I, I, me, I, my, I, I, myself, I, I, freakin' I. It would be funny, if only it weren't.
Dear friends, I fell far and fell fast. First I stopped writing letters, then I stopped making phone calls, then I stopped answering my phone. I spent hours reading, and then promptly forgetting everything I read, only to half-remember it later. From time to time I would bake, a loaf of sandwich bread here, a batch of cookies there, feeling panicky because I should have been studying, dammit. When friends asked me what I was baking, or when I would start blogging again, I would assure them, through clenched teeth, that it wouldn't be long now. During the break between fall and spring classes, the rainy season rolled in, cold and dark. I started wearing sloppy oversized sweaters, knitting for hours at a time because even as I longed to write, I just couldn't write. Over time, I stopped writing, baking, knitting, photographing, thinking. I found myself vowing to punch in the nose the next person who asked me when I planned to start again.
Fortunately, instead of alienating friends and loved ones by punching them in the nose, I went to a neuropsychologist, a nice man who ran me through four hours of tests. When he told me I had moderate anxiety and depressive disorders, I was not surprised, but when he told me that I had ADHD, you could have knocked me over with a feather. It's too early to say that I started the right combination of medication and therapy and lived happily ever after, but I do seem to be getting more done in a day. I have no idea when, or if, I'll get my writing muscle back—I still can't read my old posts without feeling more than a little pain about what I used to be able to do, and how I can't seem to do it anymore—but if/until I do, there are a few small things I can do, and do well, and I can capture them while they're fresh.
Here's what I didn't miss. We put in a garden this year, a garden of our very own after 14 years of watching other people plant their gardens. I'm definitely on a learning curve—three weeks ago I nearly lost all of our tomato plants to rust mites, but our tomatoes are tough little buggers, and healthy new stems, blossoms and fruit are emerging from what we thought were dying plants. By September, we should be elbow-deep in fruit, and next year, the garden will be even better.
I didn't miss sour cherry season. We buy our produce at the Mountain View farmer's market on Sunday mornings. It is a grand and glorious market, but I've not yet found pie cherries there. I thought I was restricted to stone-fruit pies—not that there's anything wrong with that—and that homemade cherry pie was something I'd left behind in New York. Silly me. "We have sour cherries!," trumpeted the banner at this wonderful place. I snapped up three quarts of these:
and turned them into this:
And I absolutely, positively, could not miss this:
This would be my brand-new nephew Cameron, who arrived on Bastille Day. I have yet to meet him—his mom snapped this picture and sent it to me—but it's fair to say that I'm smitten. Come Christmas, just try to keep me away.


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Hey there everybody. I brought this question up here on the forums YEARS ago and never got a response. I have looked high and low for over a decade and still have no answers. maybe ive gotten close and have not even known it. i figure i've waited long enough before asking again.
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If I told you a game cast you in the role of a US soldier in Iraq, would you simply assume you'd be spending your time shooting? You probably would. Which is why I like this game.
The "Tactical Language Series" have been developed by Alelo for the US military, which seeks to train soldiers "visual literacy and cultural knowledge for the geographical and linguistic areas in which they will serve". In other words, how to understand and get along with people whose country you're in, holding a gun.
It stems from most soldier's inability to understand the customs and nuances of the people of Afghanistan and Iraq, which at best can lead to stunted cooperation, and at worst can be deadly.
The game teaches both language and customs at once by presenting a virtual battlefield, though in this one, there's no shooting. You can only interact with civilians, and have to not only communicate with them verbally, but try and understand things like facial gestures and hand movements whose meaning may differ greatly from those used in the West.
Makes you wish this program had been around in 2001, and again in 2003. Might have saved us all a lot of trouble.
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Prices have collapsed since the all-time highs of the summer. Will the information released by USDA on Friday hurt or help prices?
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Richard Foley, When is True Belief Knowledge? Princeton University
The orthodox view is that true belief is that true belief is sometimes knowledge. What distinguishes the true beliefs that make for knowledge from those that don't? Is it that a person is justified in believing a true proposition? No, not if Gettier is right. Is it reliability? Sensitivity? Safety? Aptness? No, not if Foley is right. If Foley is right, it was a mistake to try to find some general differentiating condition that distinguishes knowing p from being justified in believing correctly that p. In his bold new book, Foley argues that what we need to add to true belief to get knowledge is more true belief. If you believe p without knowing p, you're either mistaken about p or there's some important truth that you're missing. If you're right about p and you have adequate information, you'll know p.
What does it take to have adequate information? Foley understands information as true belief. Adequacy isn't understood in terms of quantity. You might have little information concerning p and still have enough to know p. The adequacy of your information doesn't supervene upon facts about the true beliefs you have. Somebody could have the very same true beliefs that you do and not know something you do. Adequate information seems to be defined by what's missing. Your information is adequate if you're not missing an important truth. If your belief about p is correct and there's no important truth that you're missing, you know that p. If there's some important truth that you're missing, you won't know that p.
What's an important truth? Foley doesn't think that there's much that important truths share in common. Just as the particularists seem to think that right acts share little in common apart from rightness, Foley seems to think that what important truths share in common is importance. He recommends an "ecumenical" approach. Sometimes an important truth might concern a clue that the subject is missing. Sometimes it might have to do with the reliability of processes or methods responsible for a subject's beliefs. Sometimes differences in practical stakes mean that truths that aren't important for you will be important to others. Foley is skeptical of the commonly held view that there's some general way of characterizing the defects and depravity that undermine knowledge. If there's no general account of important truths, how can Foley's approach shed light on the notion of knowledge? He thinks we have a knack for finding important truths. In any of the normal cases where a subject's true belief doesn't constitute knowledge, he thinks we'll find the important truth if we look for it.
It's not difficult to recommend Foley's excellent book. He has offered a genuinely novel approach to the theory of knowledge. It's not immediately clear whether his approach improves upon extant approaches you'll already find in the literature. If you're dissatisfied with the standard accounts of knowledge, you'll likely agree that a new approach is called for. Time will tell whether Foley's approach will advance the discussion.
When is True Belief Knowledge? is divided into twenty-seven chapters. In the first seven, Foley outlines the basic contours of his account. In the remaining chapters, he addresses some puzzles, discusses different sources of knowledge, and argues that the theories of knowledge and rationality/justification should be developed independently from one another. In this review, I'll identify some features of his view that strike me as being the most problematic.
Rationality and Knowledge
According to Foley, knowledge doesn't require rationality or justification. A virtue of this approach, he says, is that:
It frees the theory of knowledge from the dilemma of either having to insist on an overly intellectual conception of knowledge, according to which one is able to provide an intellectual defense of whatever one knows, or straining to introduce a nontraditional notion of justified belief because the definition of knowledge is thought to require this (126).
If rationality/justification aren't understood in terms of their relationship with knowledge, how should they be understood? Foley offers an account of rationality/justification in Chapter 26. Believing p is epistemically rational, on his view, if it is epistemically rational for you to believe that believing p would acceptably satisfy the epistemic goal of now having accurate and comprehensive belief (148). Believing p is justified if it is epistemically rational to believe that your procedures with respect to p have been acceptable given your goals and your limitations (132). Epistemic rationality is, on Foley's view, the foundational concept in an account of practical rationality. Whether it would be rational to f in sense X (e.g., moral, prudential, etc.) depends upon the rationality of believing that f-ing would do an acceptably good job at satisfying your goals of type X (128).[1] Perhaps if 'goal' is understood broadly enough, the account can provide an account of overall practical rationality. Some provision should probably be made to handle cases where agents have adopted confused or unreasonable goals (e.g., it isn't clear that there's a rational way to go about trying to count the moon, but perhaps somebody could have that as a goal).
One area of potential concern has to do with pragmatic encroachment. At various places Foley expresses some sympathy for the view that knowledge can be harder to attain when the practical stakes are high. It's not clear what role, if any, practical significance plays in his account of epistemic rationality. That's because it's not at all clear what role the practical stakes can play in determining whether believing p would satisfy your twin epistemic goals. Provided that p isn't itself about some practical subject matter, it seems that the account would exclude practical considerations. Would an account that combines a purist account of epistemic rationality with an impurist account of knowledge be stable? It might be. It might not be incoherent. Would it accommodate our intuitions? That's hard to say. Much of the intuitive motivation for accepting pragmatic encroachment has to do with intuitions about when it's rational to proceed on the information you have and when it would be rational to search for additional evidence before making a decision.[2] In light of this, it's hard to see how to square the standard intuitions offered in support of pragmatic encroachment for knowledge with a seemingly purist account of rational belief if Foley is right and the rational thing to do is determined by rational beliefs about what would do an acceptable job meeting your goals.
A second area of potential concern has to do with the seriousness of the dilemma Foley wishes to avoid. There are many plausible accounts of rational/justified that would preserve the link between knowledge and justification that don't lead to an overly intellectual conception of either knowledge or justification. (It's not clear, for example, why Foley's own theory of rational belief doesn't solve this dilemma since it's not clear whether there are cases where you know p where it's not rational to believe that your belief concerning p would do an acceptably good job in terms of meeting your own epistemic goals.) Moreover, we do have some independent reason to think that knowledge and justification do go together. Suppose you know (p or q) and that you justifiably believe ~p without knowing ~p. You infer q. It seems that there must be something going for believing q because you've deduced q from a set of premises justifiably believed or known. We can't assume that q is known because it's not deduced from a set of known premises (and it's consistent with what's been said that q is false). To accommodate the intuition that there's something good about believing q, we either need to say that the belief is rational/justified or introduce some wholly new term of epistemic approval. I can't see any good reason to coin a new term here to pick out beliefs that are good in some way because deduced from premises justifiably believed or known that are not themselves justified or known, so I'd prefer to describe the belief as rational or as justified. This seems to require that there's a link between knowledge and rationality/justification. Assuming that there is a connection between knowledge and justification helps us make sense of what's happening in cases with this shape.[3]
Let me mention one final concern. One of the costs of severing the connection between rationality and knowledge that's emerged from the recent literature on epistemic norms is that it's difficult to explain why certain combinations of belief and concessions about what your not in a position to know strike us as being irrational. If we know that knowing has nothing at all to do with rationality and rationality has nothing at all to do with knowledge, why is it irrational to believe outright, say, that dogs bark while conceding that you don't know whether they do? This is easily explained on views that treat knowledge as a goal, an aim, or a standard of correctness and uses the regulative function of knowledge to explain the standards of rationality.
Is knowledge a mutt?
On Foley's approach, pedigree doesn't matter in the way that it does in more familiar accounts of knowledge. He doesn't think that reliability, for example, is a necessary condition for knowledge. He does acknowledge that it will often seem to us that a case of unreliably formed, true belief isn't a case of knowledge, but he thinks that the reason that the subject doesn't know is that the subject is missing an important truth. It's not unreliability, per se, that undermines the belief's epistemic standing.
To test this, he thinks we should consult our intuitions about cases involving subjects that have maximally comprehensive accurate sets of beliefs. Consider an example:
Imagine that Sally's beliefs are as accurate and comprehensive as it is humanly possible for them to be. She has true beliefs about the basic laws of the universe, and in terms of these she can explain what has happened, is happening, and will happen. She can explain the origin of the universe, the origin of the earth, the mechanisms by which cells age, and the year in which the sun will die. She even has a complete and accurate explanation of how it is that she came to have all this information. Consider a truth p-cells about the aging mechanism in cells. Sally believes p-cells, and because her beliefs about these mechanisms are maximally accurate and comprehensive, there are few gaps of any sort in her information, much less important ones. Thus, she knows p-cells (33).
It's consistent with the story that Sally doesn't meet the conditions on knowledge imposed by a reliabilist account of knowledge. Let's stipulate that the processes that produce Sally's beliefs are unreliable. We can suppose that it was a series of strange processes and unlikely events that led her to believe p-cells. Under these conditions, is Foley right that Sally knows?
I don't share Foley's intuition about the case. If we stipulate that Sally is trapped inside Nozick's experience machine, I don't think she knows p-cells. On this stipulation, I also fear that the case hasn't been described in suitably neutral terms. Suppose someone believes correctly that the barn burned down because a cow kicked over a lantern. Suppose, however, that she doesn't know that the barn burned down, doesn't know that a cow kicked over a lantern, and doesn't know that the barn burned down because a cow kicked over a lantern. (Because our subject has been stuffed into Nozick's experience machine, her beliefs are only accidentally correct.) Can she explain why the barn burned down? I don't think so. She can explain why barns burn, why cows topple lanterns, etc., but she cannot explain why events she didn't know about transpired. Give Sally all the knowledge she needs to be able to explain these things, and I'd probably agree that she knows p-cells. I'm less inclined to do so if you describe the case carefully as one in which most of her beliefs are only accidentally true.
Anticipating this response, Foley tries to motivate his description of the case by noting that "Sally is fully aware that however strange and unlikely this history may be, in her case it led to her having maximally accurate and comprehensive beliefs" (34). I still have reservations. First, I don't think he's entitled to describe the case as one in which Sally is 'aware' of these facts. Can you be aware that p if you don't know that p? He might argue that Sally is aware of the facts related to p-cells, but that's a controversial description that needs justification. Second, Sally's beliefs about her own strange and unlikely history are among the beliefs that aren't grounded by reliable processes. If we think those beliefs don't constitute knowledge, it's not clear that they'd help to turn her belief about p-cells into knowledge.
How does Foley's approach handle lottery propositions? Billy believes that his ticket, #345, lost after the drawing was held, but he won't know that it lost simply on the basis of his correct beliefs about the set up of the lottery and the probability of losing. Foley says that his ignorance is due to some important gap in his information. For example, he doesn't have this bit of information—ticket #543 was the winner (72).
Is this approach preferable to approaches that impose a sensitivity or safety condition? That's not clear. If the paper announces that #543 is the winner Billy will learn by reading the paper that he lost. So far, everyone is on the same page. What if the paper didn't announce the winning number but simply announced that Billy's ticket lost? If he reads that, he should know he lost. If that's sufficient for knowledge, what important truth was Billy missing before he read the paper that he has now? The important piece of information he's missing can't be that his ticket lost. If information is true belief, that's information he already had. Maybe the important truth he's missing is not a truth about what it says in a paper. This would be an odd way to account for the intuition. You might think that that information only matters because it provides you with information (in some intuitive sense of 'provides information' that's more demanding than the notion Foley works with) about the winners and losers. A natural explanation as to why reading the paper matters is that it's only after you've read the paper that you can have a sensitive belief or a safe belief. While it's not clear that our intuitive verdicts about lotteries are at odds with Foley's view, it's not clear whether his view has the explanatory resources to account for those intuitions in the straightforward ways that rivals accounts do.
Ignorance as a lack
In Chapter 20, Foley discusses cases in which we admit that we're not in a position to know something. Some philosophers think that if you appreciate that you're not in a position to know p, you can't then rationally believe p. Foley thinks that there's nothing at all puzzling about believing what you concede you don't know. He's right, I think, that reports of the form 'I believe p, but I don't know it' are common (101). Still, there are puzzles lurking here. We often say 'I believe p' as a way of hedging. It's a way of expressing that we don't take on the commitment to the truth of p typical of outright or full belief. What about cases of full belief in which you concede you don't know? Consider, 'Dogs bark but I don't know that they do'. Here, the speaker expresses the belief that dogs bark and concedes that he doesn't know that they do. This strikes many of us as irrational. Can you know the proposition expressed? To know that dogs bark, there would have to be no important truths that you were missing. The second conjunct is true iff you don't know that dogs bark. Assuming you believe correctly that dogs bark, the second conjunct couldn't be true unless there's some important truth that you were missing. Foley's account explains why you can't know both conjuncts.
Foley's account nicely handles this sort of case, but I don't think it can easily handle beliefs expressed by statements of the form, 'p, but my evidence doesn't show/establish that p'. It doesn't seem that you can know that the proposition this expresses is true. How can we explain this? The proposition expressed isn't necessarily false. If someone believed this without knowing that it's true, Foley's account implies that there's some important truth that the subject is missing. I can't think of what that truth might be.
One could try to explain why the proposition can't be known as follows:
To know the conjunction, you'd have to know both conjuncts. To know p, you'd have to have evidence that establishes p. If you have that evidence, the second conjunct is false and the conjunction is not known. If you lack that evidence, you don't know the first conjunct and the conjunction is not known. The conjunction is not knowable.
This explanation isn't available to Foley because he wouldn't want to say that knowing p requires having evidence that establishes p.[4]
One could offer a different style of explanation:
To know the conjunction, you'd have to know both conjuncts. To know p, you can't be irrational in believing p. Believing the second conjunct makes believing the first conjunct irrational. You can't know the conjunction without believing the second conjunct. The conjunction is not knowable.
If he offers this second sort of explanation, he can say that having evidence that shows that p isn't necessary for knowing. Instead, he can say that not believing that one lacks this evidence is necessary for knowing. While this seems to be the better route for Foley to take, it faces a handful of problems. First, this explanation assumes that your ignorance is due to a presence, not an absence. It's not due to the fact that you're missing some truth, but due to the presence of a set of attitudes that's rationally self-defeating. Second, this explanation is shallow. If it didn't matter whether you had evidence that showed that p, why would it matter what view you had on whether you had this evidence? Some explanation of the irrationality of believing p whilst believing that your evidence doesn't show p is in order. Does it fall out of Foley's account of rationality? It's not obvious that it does. Moreover, it's not clear that Foley's account of rationality will help him explain the relevant data if it's part of Foley's account of knowledge that knowledge doesn't require rationality.
How serious are the problems discussed above? Foley might be right that ignorance is typically due to some lack or deficiency. Cases discussed in this section suggest that the gap isn't always due to some lack of information. Some conjunctive propositions might be unknowable truths because it would be irrational to believe the conjuncts in combination. The irrationality precludes knowledge. Add all the true beliefs you like and you'll not restore the rationality needed for knowledge.
Knowledge Blocks
Foley acknowledges that a pure version of his view might be difficult to defend. Conceding that his account won't accommodate all of our intuitions, he suggests that a perfectly good fallback position would be one that acknowledges 'knowledge blocks'. Think of a knowledge block as something that interferes with the normal conditions for knowledge, say, by preventing the subject from meeting some minimum standard of rationality, reliability, tethering of belief to experience, etc. On the modified version of the view, knowledge is true belief with adequate information without any knowledge blocks.
To accommodate intuitions, it seems that Foley would need to introduce knowledge blocks. By doing so, it seems he would have to impose general rationality and reliability requirements on knowledge. Can he do this while maintaining the distinctiveness of his approach? That remains to be seen. It depends upon whether the notion of an important truth does any explanatory work once a sufficient set of knowledge blocks is introduced.
Adler, J. 2002. Belief's Own Ethics. MIT University Press.
Fantl, J. and M. McGrath. 2002. Evidence, Pragmatics, and Justification. Philosophical Review 111: 67-94.
Williamson, T. 2007. On Being Justified in One's Head. In M. Timmons, J. Greco, and A. Mele (ed.), Rationality and the Good: Critical Essays on the Ethics and Epistemology of Robert Audi (Oxford University Press).
[1] As stated, the account is sketchy. There are two areas that could use further discussion. The first is that he provides an account of goal-relative practical rationality, but no account of overall practical rationality. Given the goal of meeting your moral obligations, it would be practically rational in the moral sense to f if it is rational to believe that f-ing would do acceptably well at meeting that goal. Given the goal of looking after your own interests, it would be practically irrational in the prudential sense to f if it is rational to believe f-ing would prevent you from meeting that goal. What about all things considered practical rationality? Is that notion confused? Can we provide an account of that notion in terms of, say, some overarching goal? He doesn't say. The second is that he says nothing about the coherence or intelligibility of the goals. Can't there be goals that are unintelligible or incoherent? Are there practically rational ways to go about trying to count the moon?
[2] See Fantl and McGrath (2002) for discussion.
[3] See Williamson (2007) for discussion of this sort of argument.
[4] Adler (2002) argues that reflection on Moore's paradox reveals that this requirement must be met to know and to satisfy the normative standards governing belief.


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USA satellite reveals N. Korea possibly hiding missile operating bases
North Korea: Fox News
reported by :Tony Wild
Though the treatment between USA and N.korea that was hold before month , the new review of satellite images said another plot is running now
underneath and revealed a missile operating bases have never been discovered by North Korean officials.
According to the Center for Strategic and International Studies' Beyond Parallel program identified about 15 to 20 bases being operated by the Korean
People's Army's Strategic Force, based on information from officials in the government, defense and intelligence, as well as North Korean defectors.
"The ballistic missile operating bases are small, dispersed throughout the nation, and, with few exceptions, located in narrow mountain valleys,"
the CSIS report stated. "The deployment pattern has evolved over time, garnering a variety of descriptions, but today it is most commonly described
as consisting of the three 'belts': the Tactical (or Forward), the Operational, and the Strategic (or Strategic Rear) based upon their physical distance
from the DMZ [Demilitarized Zone]."
The sites can build a slew of missiles for the regime, including intercontinental ballistic missiles that may have the ability to reach U.S. territory.
Though the bases are not considered traditional launch facilities, missiles can be launched from the locations in an emergency, the report stated.
Satellite images of a possible base in Sakkanmol, about 50 miles from the Demilitarized Zone, allegedly show headquarter buildings, barracks, maintenance
depots and entrances to alleged underground tunnels that would hide missiles and transport trucks.
NORTH Korea has urged the US to take its hydrogen bomb threat seriously
By|HUE GEY
In the challenge, North Korea is continuing its battle with USA and today it higher it nervous speech by saying :
"US should take hydrogen bomb threat 'literally"
North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho threatened to conduct the "strongest hydrogen bomb test over the Pacific Ocean" last month after President Donald Trump vowed during a speech at the United Nations to "totally destroy" the countryif it attacked the US or its allies.
Now, a senior official from the North Korean Foreign Ministry has suggested that the US take threat to test a bomb above ground seriously because Mr Ri is in close contact with leader Kim Jong-un.
"The Foreign Minister is very well aware of the intentions of our supreme leader, so I think you should take his words literally," Ri Yong-pil told CNN.
North Korea "has always brought its words into action", he said.
According to CNN reporter Will Ripley, Mr Ri was "visibly angry" as he made the comments.
He added a diplomatic solution to the dispute between the US and North Korea were not possible.
"The US is talking about a military option and even practising military moves. They're pressuring us on all fronts with sanctions. If you think this will lead to diplomacy, you're deeply mistaken," he said.
Central Intelligence Agency chief Mike Pompeo said last week that North Korea could be only months away from gaining the ability to hit the US with nuclear weapons.
Experts say an atmospheric test would be a way of demonstrating that capability. All of North Korea's previous nuclear tests have been conducted underground.
Meanwhile, North Korea's ambassador has urged the UN Security Council to condemn the recent joint South Korean-US naval exercise near the Korean peninsula, calling it part of preparations for a pre-emptive strike and "nuclear war" against his country.
Ja Song-nam said last week's exercise was the largest "waged with general mobilisation of nuclear strategic assets" after Mr Trump last month "made the most ferocious declaration of war in history by claiming to 'totally destroy"' North Korea.
Mr Ja said the naval exercise, which involved the nuclear aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan, three nuclear submarines, Aegis destroyers and more than 40 other battleships, increased tensions on the Korean peninsula.
North Korea appears to have stepped up its propaganda campaign against Mr Trump in recent weeks as UN sanctions against the country begin to bite.
"The lunatic Trump is plunging the whole of the US into an abyss of destruction while the miserable South Korean authorities are blindly following him to death," the Pyongyang Times wrote overnight.
The latest spray follows an unusual ploy from North Korea last week, where it sent a letter to the Australian Foreign Affairs Department urging it to turn away from the US President.
In the letter, where the rogue nation refers to itself as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), it "bitterly condemns the reckless remarks of Trump as an intolerable insult to the Korean people, a declaration of war against the DPRK and a grave threat to the global peace".
The missive concludes by calling for "international justice" and "sharp vigilance against the heinous and reckless moves of the Trump administration trying to drive the world into a horrible nuclear disaster".
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North Korea's foreign minister| we are on the brink of nuclear war
By|Tony Wild
North Korea's foreign minister Ri Yong declared very important statement imposing to the USA president and the American people...as he said to Russian agency for News Tass :
" Donald Trump's bellicose rhetoric aimed at North Korea has pushed the US and the communist dictatorship to the brink of nuclear war, "By his belligerent and insane statement at the United Nations, Trump, so to say, lit the fuse of war against us."
And added :""We need to settle the final score, only with a hail of fire, not words."
Ri's threats came a day after a pair of US bombers for the first time conducted manoeuvres over the Korean peninsula with the South Korean air force, and followed stepped-up sabre-rattling by the president on Twitter.
Trump has repeatedly suggested military action was the only solution to the North's belligerence and growing nuclear weapons and missile program.
"Presidents and their administrations have been talking to North Korea for 25 years, agreements made and massive amounts of money paid hasn't worked, agreements violated before the ink was dry, makings fools of US negotiators. Sorry, but only one thing will work!" he tweeted on Saturday.
"Our country has been unsuccessfully dealing with North Korea for 25 years, giving billions of dollars & getting nothing. Policy didn't work!" he added in another tweet two days later.
The NK foreign minister told TASS that his country was getting close to achieving its goal of assembling a nuclear arsenal.
"We have nearly achieved the final point on the way to our ultimate goal, to achieving a real balance of force with the United States. Our nuclear weapons will never be a subject matter of negotiations as long as the United States' policy of pressure on the DPRK has not been uprooted once and for all," he said.


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Love may be just a game, but the baseball players in Jennifer Seasons' sexy diamonds and dugouts series— they're playing for keeps!
Mark Cutter has it all: a lucrative baseball career, fast cars, and faster women—and all thanks to his priceless good luck charm. At least, that's what he thinks before Lorelei Littleton shows up. Next thing he knows, he's waking up alone, the sexy brunette has vanished, and his good luck charm is gone. More than a little curious about the wicked-hot cat burglar and determined to get his property back, Mark's going to track down the thief and make her pay—big time.
Maybe Lorelei feels a tiny bit guilty for stealing Mark's good luck charm, but when it's worth $100,000 and the money could save her niece's life? She's not losing sleep over it . . . but him? Lorelei can't get the ballplayer with the bad attitude out of her head. And now he's come after her with more than just revenge in his eyes. Lorelei has a choice: turn over the charm and lose the money, or keep it and risk losing everything . . . including her heart.


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Albert R. Hunt: How Obama can overcome faux scandals
Here's the White House view of the current trilogy of so-called scandals: Republicans are trying to destroy President Obama's second term by magnifying bureaucratic miscues and distorting policy realities. This isn't without some merit.
On none of these issues – the deadly debacle at the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Libya, the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups, or the Justice Department's secret and sweeping seizure of Associated Press phone records in an anti-leaks case – is there any suggestion of wrongdoing by Obama.
Republicans, ranging from the usually sensible South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham to Darrell Issa, the gunslinging chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, are playing politics.
Nevertheless, the controversies are undermining the president; his slow, reactive, alternately passive and cavalier responses are playing into critics' hands. Experienced Democrats, outside the White House, want Obama to be more proactive, assertive and forthright to salvage his second term.
Among the bolder actions they want him to consider:
• Appoint a special counsel in the IRS transgressions. Tap a knowledgeable outsider of the agency (say, former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill) to quickly assemble a small staff to supplement career Justice Department investigators, with a target of a full report by Oct. 20. These findings, unlike an inquiry under Attorney General Eric Holder, would have credibility.
• Accept Holder's resignation. A favorite target of Republicans, the attorney general now has few fans among prominent Democrats. Given his record, his departure would be important substantively as well as symbolically.
• Abandon widely discussed consideration of making United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice the head of the National Security Council later this year. She isn't responsible for Benghazi and has been unfairly pilloried by critics such as Graham. Still, in her five network television appearances immediately after the tragedy, she displayed poor judgment. While head of the NSC isn't a post requiring Senate confirmation, appointing Rice would reignite the firestorm in this largely faux scandal.
To be sure, it isn't difficult to understand the administration's complaints that many of the salient facts in these controversies are overlooked.
It's a canard to say Benghazi is a classic case of the cover-up being worse than the crime. There was no crime. There were inexcusable security inadequacies in Libya. Once the attack began, there was no way U.S. forces could have prevented those tragic murders, asserts, among others, Bob Gates, defense secretary under Presidents Bush and Obama.
The surreptitious subpoena of the AP's phone records is outrageous. It reflects Obama's obsession with preventing leaks; this Justice Department has prosecuted more whistle-blowers, including journalists, than under Attorneys General John Mitchell, Ed Meese and John Ashcroft combined.
Going back to Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon, such obsessions invariably produce more problems than benefits. Yet congressional Republicans were the driving force for the leak investigations.
There is no defense for America's tax agency targeting particular groups because of their perceived ideology. Still, it's also true that the tax status of many of these groups, on the left and on the right, should be scrutinized, as many may falsely claim their purpose is to promote social welfare, not politics. If their tax status is questionable, the IRS has to ask political questions.
There are decided downsides to taking any of these actions. Outside counsels notoriously spin out of control and outlast their purpose. If Holder is pushed out, the White House would face an ugly confirmation battle over his successor.
Forceful action, however, is the only way the president can counter the steady partisan assaults and get back to talking about his agenda: immigration, implementing the Affordable Care Act, fiscal fairness and background checks for purchasing guns.
The trade-offs aren't impossible. Outside counsel can act expeditiously; in the 1980s, the legendary Washington lawyer Jake Stein took less than six months to investigate Attorney General-designate Ed Meese. If the misdeeds at the IRS are limited to relatively low-level bureaucrats, such an inquiry should take even less time.
As for the attorney general, his credibility on these hot issues is gone. As a replacement, Obama might have to search for a fair-minded, moderate Republican, and no White House wants an attorney general of the opposite party. That would be better than the status quo. And anything that adds fuel to the phony Benghazi clamor is a political and policy distraction.
When it comes to the leaks, the president should be sobered by an interesting new book, "Fighting for the Press: The Inside Story of the Pentagon Papers and Other Battles." The author, James Goodale, served as counsel to the New York Times for the Pentagon Papers, the famous 1971 case involving Nixon's attempts to censor the press. "In many respects" on press issues, Goodale writes, "President Obama is no better than Nixon."
This story is a conundrum. This is the most scandal-free administration in recent memory. The word scandal is a misnomer for each of these three distinctly different matters.
Yet Washington works as much on perception as reality. Together, these controversies – and especially the IRS uproar – threaten to dominate all summer, which would politically imperil any second-term agenda. Last week, the president began to act more decisively. Democrats see that as a start.


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Tell President Obama: Support Democracy and Civilian Rule in Egypt!
In January 2011, the people of Egypt took to the streets and brought down the thirty-year reign of Hosni Mubarak. Next week will mark the anniversary of the protests in Tahrir Square but, while Mubarak is gone, his military and much of his regime still rule the country.
On Tuesday, when President Obama delivers the State of the Union address, he should make clear to Americans and our allies throughout the Middle East and the world that the United States supports civilian, democratic rule in Egypt. And that the country stands with all those who struggle for human rights and democracy.
Ask President Obama to state his support for a democratic Egypt in next week's State of the Union address. Tell him to support civilian rule in Egypt!


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