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Some time ago, I stumbled across the MapVIZ node in Maya and was surprised, that Softimage didn't implement something like this in our beloved software package, XSI. Well, last weekend I decided to code it myself.
The first step to take, was to decipher the the file structure of the FG and Photon maps. Since the files are written in binary, this wasn't that easy. But with the help of UltraEdit, a HEX editor for Windows, and some trial and error, the main file structure mystery was unveiled. Here is an example of how this looks like in a FG map:
The blue marked part is the file type and the version of MentalRay. The green part is a 32 bit integer value which is the total FG Point count. Next comes the FG Point itself. One FG point is represented in 104 bytes in total. That's the first bright block. The first 12 bytes are the x, y and z coordinates in 32bit floating point numbers. And so on…
Final Gathering maps have another structure than Photon maps and thus it took me twice the time to build the file structure.
Once this was done, I had a little look into OpenGL programming and had a little talk to Andrea Interguglielmi. He helped me with the Logic behind the connection between XSI and OpenGL.
What this tool does is in fact pretty simple. When the plugin is loaded, it registers a new DisplayCallback and allocates some basic memory. Then, after you select a map and press on the "Show Map" button, it reads the chosen file and creates an array of position and color values which are stored in the memory and then displayed through some basic OpenGL functions.
With this tool you have the ability to view your saved FG and Photon maps in your 3D-Viewport of XSI. After installation, you can find it under Get-> Property-> JV_MapMiner. It is provided as is and nobody is responsible in any way for any possible damage.
I hope this tool can help people to optimize their renderings and make their lives a little bit more comfortable.
You can download the .xsiaddon (tested on XSI 5.x and 6.1) and a demo project with one FG map, one GI map, one Caustic map and one GI+Caustic map combined (27mb).
You are welcome to send me bug-reports or suggestions.
FG Quicktime
GI Quicktime
Caustics Quicktime
Buddha 3D-Model courtesy of the Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory.


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So Google maps tells me I'm 47 minutes away from where I need to be in half an hour… meh, I'll make it on time! I hugged the speed limit as I made my way to the meeting point for a feed, an icy cold beverage and some catching up with the boys. I followed a midnight purple R34 GTR and red Integra into the car park, it seems I'd made it in time after all!
Josh and Jason has organised a Turbo-spec meet at Hooters, Parramatta. Tonight's agenda was simple. Deep fried, deep fried chicken wings with an extra helping of oil and a few beers/soft drinks.
That was the extent of the plans made, and judging by the turn out for fairly impromptu event it seemed to have struck a chord with the majority of us.About 20 of us rocked up and took over a quarter of the restaurant and our entourage of vehicles took up a good proportion of their car park too.
After a quick round of introductions to some of the newer crew members some beers were bought and the car chat began. It was a super relaxed atmosphere with plenty to discuss, and even more eye candy for the conversation dropped off or that damned 'birthday song' got cranked up to 11! It was agreed that the management of Hooters still had pretty good taste.
After we coated our arteries with deep fried golden goodness we made our way down to the car park for a spot of show and tell followed by a quick excursion over towards to the refineries to see if we could find a nice spot for a group shot. It was getting late for a week night (Yes I'm getting old) so we settled for one single shot.
All in all it was a good, relaxing night! I'd almost forgotten what they were like. We'll have to do something similar again soon!


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Kyle Busch Motorsports has announced the addition of Kevin "Bono" Manion to the team's crew chief lineup for the 2016 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. Manion will call the shots for the Toyota Tundra shared by drivers Daniel Suarez and Cody Coughlin. The team also announced that 2015 champion crew chief Rudy Fugle will team with last year's NASVAR K&N Pro Series East champion William Byron, while veteran crew chief Jerry Baxter guides Christopher Bell's efforts.
Manion brings 12 years of experience as a NASCAR crew chief to KBM, spending the last 10 seasons in the Sprint Cup Series. The Massachusetts native collected five victories in his time atop the pit box in NASCAR's premier series, including two marquee wins with Jamie McMurray in 2010; the Daytona 500 and the Brickyard 400. Before graduating into NASCAR's top division, he guided Martin Truex Jr., to back-to-back NASCAR XFINITY Series titles in 2004 and 2005. In addition to his five Sprint Cup Series victories, Manion boasts 15 XFINITY Series wins; 13 with Truex Jr., and two with Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Fugle begins his third season as a KBM crew chief and his fifth overall with the team. Under his tutelage last season, Erik Jones posted three wins, five poles, 925 laps led, 11 Top-5 and 20 Top-10 finishes en route to becoming the youngest champion in Truck Series history and the first driver to collect both the Rookie of the Year and the series title in the same year. The duo also nabbed KBM its record-breaking fourth Truck Series Owner's championship last season, which was the second with Fugle calling the shots. In 2013, he led KBM's No. 51 Tundra team to a series-leading six wins and an Owner's Championship. The New York native's Truck Series drivers have totaled nine wins, six poles, 21 Top-5 and 35 Top-10 finishes across his 44 races atop the pit box for KBM.
Baxter begins his fourth season atop the pit box for KBM. Combined in his first three seasons, the California native's drivers posted seven wins, three poles, 1171 laps led, 24 top-five and 40 top-10 finishes across 67 starts. The veteran crew chief spent the 2015 season calling the shots for KBM's No. 51 team, which collected two wins, 10 Top-5 and 14 Top-10 finishes with drivers Daniel Suarez (12 starts), Matt Tifft (six starts), Kyle Busch (three starts) and Christopher Bell (one start) behind the wheel. In addition to his seven wins at KBM, his resume includes a Truck Series win with Cale Gale in 2012 and a NASCAR XFINITY Series win with David Reutimann in 2007.
"The goal at KBM is to have all three of our teams competing for wins and top fives every race and consistently be among the battle for the Owner's Championship," Busch said. "Rudy, Jerry and the group of crew members that they have assembled on their respective teams, and everyone in the shop have accomplished those goals the past few seasons and the third team made strides through all of last season. With the addition of Bono -- a guy who is a true racer and a proven winner at NASCAR's highest level -- as the leader of that group of guys, I'm confident that their performance level will be much improved this season."


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A quick note to say that Loose Id have temporarily dropped the prices on many "first of series" books, including mine. This is currently guaranteed to apply only to books purchased directly through Loose Id, although they were working on getting the reductions onto the big third party sites like Amazon. You can also get two of my short stories for free from the Loose Id site. My catalogue page is here: http://www.loose-id.com/authors/erotic-romance-authors-g-k.html?cat=76
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Right, have some suggestions from Amazon UK's latest ebook deal newsletter. These are all under £2 at Amazon; most are also on offer at Kobo. Penguin Modern Classics seem to be having a sales binge so it's worth trawling through the rest of the deals list if you like their catalogue. As always, check the price before clicking the buy button.
I know some of you do find these posts useful for flagging up stuff to have a closer look at. I put in the covers this time because there were a couple I specifically wanted to show. Is it useful to see the covers, or does this make the post too unwieldy on people's flist?
John Wyndham – The Day of the Triffids – in a Penguin Modern Classics edition, with the newest cover art by Brian Cronin. The art's a good match in tone/period feel for the book, but I still think of Harry Willock's reverse colour line drawing cover art of the 1970s as the ur-cover art for Wyndham, just as Tom Baker is My Doctor.
Master and Commander (Aubrey/Maturin Series, Book 1) (Aubrey & Maturin series) by Patrick O'Brian
I have provided the title exactly as given on the Amazon and Kobo pages. Yes, I am easily amused.
Val McDermid – Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime
Non-fiction from one of the greatest crime writers of today. One for the writers, but also of general geeky interest.
CS Lewis – Mere Christianity
Lewis's collection of radio broadcasts setting out the case for Christianity.
Tony Robinson – No Cunning Plan
Another acting memoir. Haven't looked at the sample yet, but if Robinson's any good at writing prose, this is probably going to be interesting.
George Orwell – The Road to Wigan Pier
Orwell's non-fiction is as important, and as topical, as his fiction.
Anthony Burgess – A Clockwork Orange
Haven't read this in at least thirty years, but I suspect I would still find it equal parts horrifying, terrifying and laugh-out-loud funny. It's only just occurred to me that this book pressed some of the same buttons for me that Iain (M) Banks would some years later.
And while I was looking for Amazon US links for these books, I stumbled across this:
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BAKER, ROBERT ANDREW (1910–1992). Robert Andrew Baker, seminary professor, Baptist historian, and author, was born on December 22, 1910, in St. Louis, Missouri, the second of three sons of Benjamin William and Grace (Hartman) Baker. He had two older stepsisters. His father was an English immigrant, and his mother of Pennsylvania Dutch descent. William Baker died when Robert was two years old. Grace Baker moved her children to Kansas City, Kansas, where she went to work to support them. Robert was converted at the age of twelve and baptized at Immanuel Baptist Church, Kansas City, Kansas. Beginning in 1929 he attended night sessions of a business college for two years while working as an attorney's clerical assistant and a court reporter using stenotype by day. From 1932 through 1936 he was an operative in the United States Secret Service Division of the Treasury Department, with the Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, office as his headquarters. Although Baker had for years been convinced that God was leading him into full-time Christian service, he worked at secular jobs until he had put his younger brothers through college. In December 1936 the First Baptist Church of Oklahoma licensed him to preach, and he enrolled in Baylor University. He was ordained to the ministry by Bellmead Baptist Church, Waco, Texas, on March 14, 1938. His degrees included a B.A. from Baylor University, 1939; a Th.M. in 1941 and a Th.D. in 1944 from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth; a Ph.D. from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, in 1947; and an honorary doctor of laws degree from Baylor University in 1981. He married Fredona C. McCaulley on June 5, 1939, in Waco. They had a son and a daughter. From 1940 to 1942 Baker studied at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and taught evening classes. He joined the church-history faculty at Southwestern in 1942 and retired in 1981. He was chairman of the Committee on Graduate Studies for twenty-nine years and served for six years on the commission on accreditation of the American Association of Theological Schools. He served as president of the Texas Baptist Historical Society and as chairman of the Southern Baptist Historical Commission. He was the first to receive the Distinguished Service Award from the latter group in 1981. He was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award by Southwestern Seminary in 1968. Among the dozen books Baker wrote are A Summary of Christian History (1959), J. B. Tidwell Plus God (1947), Relations Between Northern and Southern Baptists (1948), and The Blossoming Desert: A Concise History of Texas Baptists (1970). On November 15, 1992, Baker died at his home in Fort Worth. A memorial service was held at Travis Avenue Baptist Church on November 19, 1992, and burial was at Laurel Land Cemetery, Fort Worth.
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The 2018 Great Plains Annual Conference session took place June 13-16 at the Century II Performing Arts and Convention Center in Wichita, Kansas. The theme, "Therefore Go: Proclaim Christ" marked the second year of a four-year theme meant to help clergy and laity of the Great Plains live into active discipleship.
For those wanting to relive the moments, reinforce the messages or reflect on them to fellow church members, here is a multimedia collection of what happened at this year's conference.
Afternoon listening session related to the Commission on a Way Forward
Service of Remembrance and Communion
Youth leading worship
Workshops (PowerPoints for download will be added as soon as they are received)
Here are the resolutions for the closings of the churches in Upland, Nebraska; Glade, Kansas; Gardner First Light, Kansas; and Cedar Vale, Kansas. In addition, the church in Gove, Kansas, was closed.
Here are the texts of the resolutions that were discussed on the plenary floor:


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At last! I have finally joined the wonderful world of Etsy. Having been saying to myself I will do it for longer than I care to remember I now have my own shop. I am still yet to sell anything but it's not dampening my enthusiasm! Check out the items in my store below:
I have got a couple of prints of of my paintings in there, I hope to add some more soon:
I've also done a few original paper cut outs, a couple on the similar pattern theme but also one that features something I overheard somebody say on a train years ago. They were taken aback when they bumped into somebody they knew. The person asked if they had seen them out the other day and he stuttered 'Maybe…it could have been me. I am one of many few'. It has stuck with me ever since!


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Tahawwur Rana, an Islamic extremist who used a Chicago front company to fund the Pakistani jihadist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison. Rana also bankrolled activities of his lifelong friend David Coleman Headley, the lead scout behind the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attacks—attacks which were also funded by Pakistan's ISI spy service via Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Headley himself was sentenced to 35 years in prison yesterday. He was largely responsible for the deaths of over 160 people including six Americans. U.S. officials claimed that Headley was cooperative with investigators. Eric Holder authorized prosecutors not to seek the death penalty, and the prosecutors didn't even seek a life sentence in light of Headley's "cooperation."
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A "typical" concussion involves an athlete being struck directly on the head or in the body causing the head to shake.
The athlete should report symptoms and be removed from play. Standard concussion testing and a neurologic exam should be performed to confirm the diagnosis and to rule out more serious injuries. Often, certified athletic trainers are on site and are proficient in recognizing the signs and symptoms of concussion as well as "red flag" symptoms that warrant immediate evaluation. If no medical personnel are on site, it is best to be seen by a medical provider as soon as possible.
"In terms of treatment, initially I need to see the patient and perform a thorough neurological exam to make sure his or her symptoms are not related to more ominous conditions such as a brain bleed," Lucas said. "Once I have determined the athlete has a normal neurologic exam, I will make academic accommodations to allow them to attend school without worsening symptoms. Sometimes, I withhold students from school for a period of time to allow their symptoms to improve. I also discuss other issues such as driving."
To get back to the sport, symptoms have to resolve completely. The athlete is then progressed through a graded "return to play" progression. Medications can also be used to control debilitating or persisting symptoms as well as vestibular therapy for those with vestibular dysfunction.


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Free Summer Family Programs At The Morse
The Morse Museum continues its 75th anniversary celebration with free summer family programs that explore the depth and breadth of the collection, and in particular, the art of casting and portrait painting.
The museum's summer offerings for families—targeted to children in kindergarten through fifth grade and their parents or guardians—include a gallery tour with take-home activity on Tuesdays and a film, tour, and an art activity on Fridays. Registration begins May 1. Space in these free family programs is limited, and reservations are required. Details are as follows:
- Family tours—Take a 40-minute guided tour through several galleries on five Tuesdays: June 27; July 11, 18, and 25; and August 1. Includes a take-home art activity.
- Friday Family Films—Enjoy a short film, gallery tour, and art activity in this 90-minute program on five Fridays: June 30; July 7, 14, 21, and 28.
All children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. A $5 refundable deposit per person is requested when securing a reservation for either program. Call (407) 645-5311, extension 136, to make a reservation or request more information.
The Morse Museum, which celebrated its 75th anniversary in February, is home to the world's most comprehensive collection of works by American artist and designer Louis Comfort Tiffany. Summer hours are 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.
Regular admission is $6 for adults, $5 for seniors, $1 for students, and children younger than age 12 receive free admission and are welcome any day of the week with their parents or guardians. The Museum, located at 445 N. Park Avenue, is owned and operated by the Charles Hosmer Morse Foundation and receives additional support from the Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation. It receives no public funds.by


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Say what you want about Facebook. It's addicting. It's a time waster. It's a platform for cyber-stalking ex-boyfriends or girlfriends. Yes, yes, and yes.
On the flipside, Facebook can reunite you with former friends, coworkers, and neighbors. You don't have to wonder what ever happened to so and so. Go on Facebook and look for them. Hopefully, an old friend becomes a friend again.
This is exactly what's happened to me on numerous occasions. I'm Facebook friends with seven of the "kids from the '70s." We all lived on the same side of the street on Kolb Avenue in Allen Park during our childhood. I spent Halloween at Boogie Fever in Ferndale with a college friend, Cathy, who found me on Facebook.
Then there's the best reconnection of all. How do you find someone who lives in another country? Try Facebook. When I lived in Ann Arbor in '92, my friend Luigi was taking MBA classes at U-M for four months before he went back to Milan to finish his degree. We met at the Nectarine Ballroom when he approached me and asked, "Can you tell me how it is for a boy to meet a girl?" My dad's relatives were born in Italy. I'd taken two years of Italian classes and longed to be fluent. He wanted to improve his English. It was a win-win situation, and we became fast friends.
I showed him my favorite places in Michigan. In exchange, I traveled with him in Italy for six weeks in the fall of '93. We toured the entire countryside: from Milan to Florence to Pisa to Rome to Naples to Venice. My Italian has never been great. Without Gigi as my guide, I never would have stopped by a small village called Ripafratta to meet my dad's cousin, Narcisso. In fact, I might never have gone to Italy at all.
The last time I saw Gigi, we were saying "Arrivederci" at the Malpensa airport. When I came back to America, we wrote letters, talked on the phone occasionally, and sent interesting articles and books to each other in the mail. After several years, we lost touch. I tried to find him a few times, but no luck. Then, he found me on Facebook…15 years later.
Facebook (Re)Unites
Guess who was in America for the first time in 19 years? Gigi. He was in Chicago for a work conference. He contacted me via Facebook, and we arranged for him to come visit me in Royal Oak. We spent two days catching up, conversations in English and Italian. (Oh, okay. Mostly in English.) We ate dinner at the Rugby Grille in Birmingham, and now he can tell his friends in Italy he saw Laurence Fishburne and Martin Landau. We also went to Ann Arbor so he could, as he wrote to me before he came, "Give a look back to places of one of my happiest period of my life."
My dad once told me, "Gigi's from Southern Italy. He's a little 'pazzo.' Don't be surprised if he shows up someday out of the blue." Over the years, I wondered if we'd ever meet again. Did it really just happen? As we said our goodbyes, again, I realized we were still college students at heart: a boy and a girl. The circumstances in our lives had changed, but the changes hadn't changed us much. As Gigi noted, "You are the same. Only a few kilos more." I don't know how much a kilo is, but I'm pretty sure it's five or six ounces.
How appropriate Gigi came to town right before Thanksgiving. I'm thankful for the gifts we've given each other: language, food, art and culture. Essentially, he gave me Italy. What a blessing to share such a unique friendship that stood the test of time. It just goes to show you, goodbye is not forever.
I wonder if we'll reunite in another 18 years? Maybe next time, I'll get to "give a look back to places of Italy." In the meantime, we'll always have Facebook.
Ciao, ragazzo. Stop by anytime you're in America.
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The FBI is investigating whether fraud played a role in the troubles at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers and American International Group.
WASHINGTON � The FBI is investigating whether fraud played a role in the troubles at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers and American International Group, bringing to 26 the number of bureau investigations of institutions tied to the mortgage debacle, according to two sources familiar with the developments.
At the same time, the Securities and Exchange Commission has opened more than 50 investigations into disclosure and valuation of housing-related investments at banks, insurers and credit-rating agencies, Chairman Christopher Cox told the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday.
The wide-ranging probes are operating at different stages of development and no charges are imminent, according to sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the issue.
A half-dozen current and former government lawyers cautioned that mortgage-related cases presented significant challenges for investigators because of their complexity, which they said surpassed even the five-year-long probe into wrongdoing at Enron.
�The reason is they involve securities ... that are all but incomprehensible even to sophisticated investors,� said Timothy J. Coleman, a former Justice Department official who oversaw the government�s corporate fraud task force. �The other problem is that there is no obvious crime that was committed here. It may be that people who invested in these mortgage securities misunderstood the risks. But it�s not at all clear they were the result of a misrepresentation.�
The news of fresh investigative interest comes as lawmakers fiercely debate the merits of a Bush administration bailout package that would help lenders unload more than $700 billion of underperforming assets on a taxpayer-funded entity.
Public outcry over the rescue plan is heightening calls for accountability in corporate suites. Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection earlier this month. Mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are operating under the auspices of the federal government, and insurer AIG recently received a federal loan of up to $85 billion in return for government control of the company. The FBI investigations of those companies, reported last night by the Associated Press, are preliminary and may not uncover any evidence of wrongdoing, the sources said.
A Freddie Mac spokesman declined to comment. Representatives of the other three companies did not return calls seeking comment.
Richard Kolko, a spokesman for the FBI, said the bureau would not discuss the subject of an investigation. Authorities have been quiet in part because the number of cases fluctuates and because of the sensitivity of the stock market, which has fluctuated wildly in the past week.
To date, the highest profile criminal cases related to the housing crisis involve two former Bear Stearns managers indicted in June on fraud charges for allegedly misleading investors about their fund�s financial health and two onetime Credit Suisse brokers accused this month of conspiring to win higher commissions by misrepresenting an investment�s risk to clients. Both cases took many months for prosecutors to assemble.
One of the challenges for investigators is that companies themselves were among the biggest losers in the debacle, writing down billions of dollars in losses and sometimes plunging into bankruptcy protection.
�If there�s anything you want to carefully examine and put together, it�s a criminal case,� said Andrew Weissmann, former director of the Justice Department�s Enron Task Force.
Stephanie A. Martz, director of the white-collar crime project at the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, said it would be a mistake for prosecutors to rush to indict entire companies and draft legislation raising criminal penalties as they did in Enron�s collapse six years ago. Instead, she asserted that policy-makers should focus on closing regulatory loopholes and figuring out why no one caught the problems sooner.


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CORAL GABLES — Freshman running back Robert Burns may not be available when Miami opens the season Sept. 2 against Bethune-Cookman, coach Mark Richt said Tuesday.
"I don't think he'll be ready for game one," Richt said. "I don't think so. I don't know. We'll see."
Burns, who missed most of spring with a shoulder issue, wore a numberless green jersey at his first Hurricanes fall practice, to signify that other players should not hit him.
It was unlikely they would have. NCAA rules prohibit teams from wearing shoulder pads or running through full-contact drills until their fourth practice of the fall. In UM's case, that would be Friday.
Before then, Richt said, the team has to decide whether to hold Burns out from drills entirely, or let him participate once the team begins hitting. The reasoning: Richt is not yet sure if Burns' teammates will be "smart enough" to not bump him.
Burns was a three-star recruit out of Miami-Gulliver Prep. He missed large parts of his junior and senior high school seasons because of shoulder and ankle injuries.
Good news for Miami's running backs room: Richt said Travis Homer, a sophomore taking on a larger role behind returning 1,117-yard rusher Mark Walton, was "moving quick" and "knowing what to do" in UM's first session.
"He's very confident in what we're doing and how we're doing it," Richt said. "He's doing a nice job. He's ready to be a solid backup to Walton, and if you're No. 2 at running back you're playing a bunch. We expect him to play a bunch unless somebody rolls by him."
Redshirt junior Trayone Gray, who missed last year with a knee injury, is "starting to get his feet under him. We'll see how it goes."
Richt said freshman DeeJay Dallas didn't take reps as a running back — he wants to train him at receiver, first — but said Dallas would "do a little bit" of running back work as camp progresses.
Dallas, Richt said, "made some great plays at wide receiver today. We're going to have a hard time not letting him do that."
* Two other freshmen, linebacker Waynmon Steed and offensive lineman Zalon'tae Hillery, were not full-go, according to Richt. Their injuries are unknown.
Richt also said he isn't sure when defensive tackle Jon Ford, who has yet to qualify, may do so. He is hopeful Ford will be able to join the team during camp.
"He's still in the running," Richt said," comparing his situation to 2016 late arrival Dionte Mullins. "We're still hopeful he ends up getting in time … if he just makes it, qualifies, we'll be very happy. We have hopes that he will. We believe that he will."
* Sophomore tight end Michael Irvin did not compete in the second half of practice, Richt said, declining to address the nature of the situation. Asked if was heat-related, Richt said: "I'm not going to get into it. We'll know more tomorrow. He may be practicing tomorrow. It was something we had a suspicion of, that you've just got to keep him out of the drills. We've got to make sure he's healthy before we get him out there."
During the media viewing portion of practice, Irvin was running as a third-teamer behind walk-on Malik Curry and senior starter Chris Herndon.
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Economic Success of Renewable Energies in Germany
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Economic Success of Renewable Energies in Germany
Germany has seen a boom in renewable energy investments and green job creation. Critics of renewable energies argue their costs are too high. This analysis by the Wuppertal Institute gives an overview of the costs and benefits of Germany's Renewable Energies Act (EEG). The study shows that renewable energies provide a net economic benefit for the country by reducing fossil fuel imports, replacing expensive peak electricity, and cutting pollution. Furthermore, the study examines some of the most often heard arguments against the Renewable Energies Act (EEG) which have been picked up by conservative think tanks in the United States.
This report originally has been commissioned by Germany's Renewable Energies Agency. Its English version is being supported by the Heinrich Böll Stiftung North America.
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Symbiosis Motto: "Vasudhaiva Kutumbakkam" means "World is one Family"
Symbiosis is a family of 44 academic institutions, imparting quality education for over 40 years. It is host to over 27,000 Indian and International students on campus and over 1,00,000 students off campus.
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Microsoft announces Data Governance Dashboard for Office 365, Google ends support for Android Developer Tools in Eclipse, and AWS releases Amazon Linux Container Image.
Microsoft Announces Advanced Data Governance For Office 365
Microsoft has announced the release of Advanced Data Governance for Office 365 that will help users manage their high volume and complex corporate data with ease. The data governance dashboard will provide data analytics and enhanced tools for data retention.
The users will be able to classify, establish policies and take quick and relevant actions with the help of recommendations driven through the behavioral analysis and machine learning. It includes the following capabilities:
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Google is officially getting rid of the support and development of Android Developer Tools (ADT) plugin for Eclipse IDE (integrated development environment). It plans to release version 2.2 of Android Studio which is an official IDE for Android development and wants to push all Android developers towards it.
"All of your favorite ADT tools are now part of Android Studio, including DDMS, Trace Viewer, Network Monitor, and CPU Monitor. We've also improved Android Studio's accessibility, including keyboard navigation enhancements and screen reader support," Android product manager Jamal Eason wrote in a blog post.
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A Group. About Usability. In Bristol.
Last month (in October 2017) a long-awaited event in UI design world happened — Adobe XD 1.0 finally arrived! It is supposed to be the all-in-one UX/UI solution for designing websites, mobiles apps and more and as a UI designer I was obviously curious to explore this tool even before that release. In our Epro design team we have been testing and using the previous Beta version for about 3 months and, to be honest, we got excited and frustrated at the same time. In following lines I've summarised my excitements and frustrations coming after using this promising design tool.
Switching from Beta to 1.0 was not as a big step as we thought it will be in terms of new functionalities, but we are hoping for a brighter tomorrow. We decided to continue using Adobe XD and see what new releases will bring on the table. Currently, we use this tool to create interactive prototypes for our medical web-based information system.
In September, I was also lucky to hear and meet a designer from the XD team during a web conference in Prague. His name is Andre Jay Meissner and he was talking about design approaches in the development of Adobe XD. You can watch Andre's talk Assumptions Prohibited in my article about Usability and UX Insights from WebExpo to Design Better Products — it was really entertaining!
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Space may soon be a tourist destination. A handful of well-funded private companies are jockeying to be the first to blast paying customers to the edge of space, where they'll experience weightlessness and stare out into the void. These suborbital flights are expected to begin next year. And there's a surprising twist to this new space race: The companies aren't just competing to launch first; several are also vying for bragging rights to the greenest rocket. Firing off rockets to give rich tourists a stellar view may sound inherently un-eco, especially given the conventional airline industry's contributions to global warming. There's no arguing that the practice will emit greenhouse gases, but space industry leaders Xcor Aerospace and Virgin Galactic tout their programs as "environmentally benign."
"The motivation wasn't necessarily that we wanted to join Greenpeace," says Xcor spokesman Doug Graham. His company sought to build a fuel-efficient vehicle that would keep costs down. Xcor also needed a nontoxic fuel that would be easy to handle. So it built a small, two-seated vehicle powered by kerosene and liquid oxygen, which burns cleanly at about 6,000°F and emits no smoke or particulate matter. Xcor has also helped design a methane-fueled engine; it's an even greener technology because, unlike the petroleum-based kerosene, methane is a renewable energy source. "Theoretically, we could get the methane from anywhere, even from cow manure," Graham says.
Virgin Galactic plans to send passengers 62 miles up using an innovative two-vehicle design that may give the company a green edge. The larger mothership takes off from a runway and carries an attached rocket to 50,000 feet, at which point the rocket's engine ignites, shooting off the smaller craft for the final climb. While Virgin's rocket fuel is more toxic than Xcor's, Virgin says its design is environmentally superior because of its "air launch" system.
"To launch something from the ground through the very thick atmosphere and get out to suborbital space, you have to do a huge blast—you have to detonate a bomb, basically," says Virgin Galactic CEO Stephen Attenborough. The Virgin system uses less fuel because the rocket engine has to fire for only 90 seconds to reach thinner atmosphere. Attenborough says Virgin calculated that each of the rocket's six passengers will have a carbon footprint totaling 0.8 metric tons of carbon dioxide; in comparison, a passenger on a 747 jet from New York to London is responsible for two metric tons.
Global warming activists haven't taken much notice of space tourism yet. That's fine for now, according to Deron Lovaas, who studies transportation and energy for the environmental nonprofit Natural Resources Defense Council. The space companies are already selling tickets for future flights costing between $100,000 and $250,000. At that price, their flights aren't likely to become a major contributor to global warming, Lovaas says. "These customers will be the same people who don't hesitate to buy a top-of-line Jaguar. To use that analogy, we don't even look at the emissions of a Porsche or a Bentley, because they are just dwarfed by the emissions from the big automakers."
Lovaas thinks that if ticket prices drop, which is the goal, space tourism could become a larger source of pollution. In fact, the business minds behind these schemes hope that eventually, as happened with air travel, suborbital flights will become cheap enough to lure average vacationers. They believe the initial revenues from the high-ticket sales will speed technological advances while decreasing costs overall. If prices drop and space tourism becomes commonplace, environmentalists may one day set their sights on the industry.
However, both Virgin and Xcor say that bringing the masses to space will have surprising benefits. Virgin magnate Richard Branson rhapsodized in a speech about how viewing the Earth from above could transform passengers, a phenomenon called the overview effect. Former astronauts have reported that the sight "helps one to wake up to the fragility of the small portion of the planet's mass that we inhabit and to the importance of protecting the Earth," Branson said. Maybe space travel as eco-tourism isn't such a far out idea.
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Very rarely does a movie get stuck in my head where I obsess over every scene... The Machine Gun Preacher did just that! This movie was like reading a really good book with great character development and with an incredible story to tell.
The movie starts off hard, rough and gritty. Gerard Butler's character was insane... HE was insane. Butler did such a fantastic job portraying Sam Childers. Childers was rough, alcoholic, drug addict, been in prison, and was a horrible father and husband. Butler played his part very well, a little too well. I'm a huge fan of Gerard Butler and it was really getting to me, to see him play such a horrible man, the worst you could imagine.
This movie shows you the true story of how Sam Childers (Gerard Butler) went from a person leading a life of self-destruction to a life of going to church, getting clean, finding faith, caring for his wife and daughter, all while becoming the saviour to a bunch of orphaned kids in Sudan. Sam Childers was a man who needed to do something with his life, to do something good for a change. I felt that this movie was casted perfectly, Gerard Butler was a perfect Sam Childers. Sam's wife who was played by Michelle Monaghan, did a fantastic job. I would think it would be hard to play alongside such a strong character, as Butler had to play, but Monaghan held her own. She was as strong of a character in this movie as he was, she was not drowned out by Butlers brilliance at all.
I would see this movie all over again, even though it was harsh. When I say harsh, I mean the children in Sudan are starving, orphaned, and dying. This movie was really hard for me to watch, however, The Machine Gun Preacher has a strong message to send out and the movie did an excellent job of doing that. I went home and immediately donated to the Sam Childers site, he even has a donation set up for a well, so the children can have clean drinking water.
What's funny is that I walk into this movie looking cute with perfect makeup, when the movie was over, I looked like a junkie with mascara running down my face. You are one tough person if this movie doesn't bring a tear to your eye! When I think of the impact this amazing, very well acted movie will have on it's fans... well it's much like The Schindler's List... even though it was harsh, it was phenomenal. The Schindler's List will forever go down in movie history, it has also won a lot of awards. The Machine Gun Preacher is no different... as far as the acting, storyline and message, this movie will win academy awards. You can mark my word on that! The message that this awesome movie gives, is one that will forever be in your thoughts and heart.
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Totally opaque inky black dark red colour with a very deep dark red hue. Heady aromas of black plum, cassis and dark chocolate are followed by vanillin oak, dried raisins and spice. Weighing in at a hefty 18% alcohol the palate is as huge as anticipated delivering an opulent super concentrated flavour profile of black plum, cassis and chocolate bullets over a background of vanillin oak, dried raisins and spice. It lacks varietal character but will be suited to those who like their reds at the very big end of town. There's some heat on the finish. Velvet smooth tannins with a long black plum, liquorice, dark chocolate, vanillin oak and spicy raisins aftertaste. An Amarone styled Cabernet with a high octane kick at the finish.
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Say what you will about a Cabernet Sauvignon with 18% alcohol, ultimately it is balance that counts. The fruit is sourced from the Greenock region of the Barossa, one of the Valley's premier terroirs, and the 2005 is 100% Cabernet Sauvignon. Opaque purple-colored, it offers an Amarone-like perfume along with smoky oak (100% new Taransaud oak was used), scorched earth, licorice, cassis, black currants, and blackberry liqueur. Huge and super-rich as well as velvety-textured, this is a true "seat-belt" wine in which notes of chocolate intermingle with spicy black fruits. It is, without doubt, a unique expression.
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The Eldritch Series is a forthcoming series. The first three books in the series are set in the fictional town of Knox, Maine and center around a half fey, half human girl, named Zooey.Book One
Seventeen and pregnant, wasn't what Zooey Donovan had planned for herself. Being pregnant at seventeen and Catholic was a train wreck waiting to happen. And all this was before she found out life wasn't as it appeared and neither was the world she'd grown up in. Instead, Zooey was the half human daughter of the once and future heir to the Winter Court, Princess Annan – a Faerie.
When her father dies, she attempts to kill the person responsible and succeeds, granting a little normalcy back into her life. Until she puts a step wrong and her eighteenth birthday turns out no better than the one before.
Never insult a Faerie. If only Zooey had known perhaps she could have prevented a Civil war among the Courts and saved herself and her friends from being exiled from Arcadia in the process.
Will Zooey risk everything to help those she cares about win back their freedom from exile no matter what the asking price?
Book Two
Fixing the mess she made wasn't easy for Zooey Donovan – in fact it came at a high price – her immortal soul, and for a Catholic it almost certainly meant she's going to Hell.
Now immortal and with her whole life stretched out before her she finds that being fey isn't what she imagined, so when a phone call sends her running in the other direction on account of her beloved Gran having died she thinks nothing of it.
Until that one event brings with it more trouble and chaos than she could have ever thought possible.
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A reluctant Queen, Zooey Donovan is half-human and half-fey, so when the Winter Crown literally falls at her feet, Zooey will do anything to avoid bearing the responsibility of ruling a world in which she doesn't even know all the rules. That is until the human populous, at the hands of Father Doherty and Sister Mary-Lawrence, threatens to reveal the very existence of fey in the town of Knox, Maine.
In the Hedge, a chance meeting with Arawn finds her back in possession of her soul. It is because of Tristan's distaste for anything human Zooey calls on Arawn for a second time, to strip her of her soul – for good – but as with all things fey, it comes with a price and slipping into a coma, she battles not only her grip on reality but her future as Queen of the Winter Court as well.


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Whether your garden is producing a bumper crop of chiles this summer or you couldn't resist buying a big basket of colorful peppers at the farmers' market, drying them will allow you to enjoy their fiery flavor all year long. Read on our tips for how to dry them in your own kitchen.
The number of ways to use dried chiles in the kitchen is almost endless: crumble them into red pepper flakes and sprinkle on your pizza, grind them into chile powder to season a spicy Southwestern stew, or soak them and puree in a blender with other ingredients to make a wide variety of sauces, from a spicy Romesco to homemade harissa.
Those who live in a very hot, dry climate can dehydrate chiles in the sun (think of the ristras, or strands of bright red dried chiles, that are a signature of arid New Mexico), but most of us will need to use an oven or dehydrator to achieve the same effect.
To dry chiles in an oven, using gloves if you are sensitive to them, remove the stems from clean, dry chiles and cut them in half lengthwise. You can remove the seeds if you like, depending on how hot you want the results (remember that dried chiles will pack a stronger punch than fresh ones). Arrange the chiles, cut side down, in a single layer on a baking sheet and place in an oven that has been set to its lowest temperature, around 150ºF (65ºC). Dry the chiles for about 6 to 8 hours, checking them every few hours and rotating or flipping them if they are drying unevenly; they should break instead of bend when they are ready. The drying time will vary based on the temperature of your oven and the thickness of the chiles' skin. Let the chiles cool before storing them a glass jar in a cool, dark place. Stored properly, dried chiles can last up to a year or more.


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April 22 is Earth Day. Earth Day is a day to remember the natural environment we inhabit, become aware of our environmental footprint, and take action helping preserve the Earth for future generations.
What are ways we can honor Earth Day and reduce our environmental footprint? Simple ideas are planting an organic vegetable garden, walking or biking instead of driving, purchasing produce from your local farmers' market, or taking reusable cloth bags when shopping, instead of using paper or plastic bags. Each one of these helps lessen our environmental footprint and are visible ways to inspire others to honor Earth Day, not only today but everyday.
We need to remember to take these Earth Day actions and make them habits. Saving water by turning it off while brushing your teeth on April 22 does no good, if you let it run freely the remaining 365 days this year. We have to be conscious of conserving our non-replenishable resources.
Today is a good day to take a look at your environmental footprint at http://act.earthday.org/footprint-calculator and www.myfootprint.org/. Both websites show how your lifestyle affects the Earth and provide tips for reducing your footprint. Knowing your environmental footprint helps you become more conscious of your daily habits. What ways will you reduce your environmental footprint to honor Earth Day and how will you turn these actions into habits?
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The 81 year-old disclosed in a television interview in February that he had acquired shares in JP Morgan for his own personal account, rather than for his company Berkshire Hathaway.
At last weekend's annual gathering of Berkshire shareholders in Omaha, Nebraska, Mr Buffett was asked why he purchased the shares just for his own account rather than the funds that Berkshire runs.
"My best ideas are all in Berkshire," he said. "That I can promise you."
The veteran investor's favourite bank is Wells Fargo, a San-Francisco based lender whose operations are mainly focused on retail and commercial banking in the US. Berkshire is the largest shareholder in Wells Fargo and owned about $11bn (£6.8bn) of shares at the end of last year. Comparing Wells Fargo and JP Morgan, Mr Buffett said: "I know Wells better and it's easier to understand."
Despite Friday's fall, JP Morgan's shares remain up 5.7pc this year. However, that performance has been eclipsed by the 17.5pc advance in shares of Wells Fargo.
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A young, voluptuous New York City woman is intensely shy and unable to speak. Her naive beauty provokes the aggressive attention of all men. One evening while walking home, she is assaulted at gunpoint and brutally raped by two thugs. Her enormous fears, which had driven her inward before, now push her to an outward course of action. After killing one of her assailants, she cuts his body into pieces and disposes of the parts, one by one, at various spots in Manhattan. She carries her dead assailant's .45 automatic, initially for protection, but ultimately for unrelenting revenge against all males. Men, keep your legs crossed for this frightfully erotic thriller that delves into the life of a nubile young maiden out for blood.
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In Manhattan, the mute seamstress Thana is a timid woman who works in the fashion industry and spends most of her time at home. One night, she is raped in an alley while going home after dark, and before she arrives at her house, she is raped a second time by another criminal. This time, she reacts and kills the assaulter with a flatiron. The disturbed Thana then loses her sanity and uses the rapist s pistol to begin killing men on the streets of New York.


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Next Battleground for SEO: Google+ and Google Places
Google Glass is already here, and the growing popularity of it is beginning to shape the future of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). You might have been busy promoting your brand on Facebook, and writing bulk content for your website, that's great but you need to get ready for the future.
SEO of the Future is Here
Where will you start in your Google Glass SEO revamp? You can start by optimizing your Google+ and Google Places account. These two Google products are the prime sources of information where answers are taken and given to searchers.
Google Glass uses its two prime products to extract info snippets from top websites. Because Google Glass works on a small eye frame, it displays around four lines of information, which is deemed as the main answer for your question. Google Glass focuses on exact, accurate, and concise answers on your website, and reports them to the searcher. Google listens to the voice command of the user and return answers according to the searchers' browsing history (personalized search), IP address (your registered location), and calendar (one of the Google Glass software application).
In crawling websites, Google values the authority of authors, relevance and influence of the content, and the number of referring websites. This means, you have to work with reputable content that is viral enough and recommended highly by the social community. To extract a content that meets such standard, it relies first on Google+ and Google Places as the primary informants. These two Google products, undoubtedly, will define the Search Engine Optimization game mechanics.
Another reason to consider is that Google's implementation of quality standards can be easily implemented and monitored using their own systems, which the two products can easily adapt.
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So how can you work out the current standards for "quality" and "relevant" answers for the Google Glass phenomenon? Here are two ways to start with:
1. Post your info snippets in Google+ first. Make your title in question format, then provide an exact, accurate, and concise answer within the first two sentences. Calculate the word count as if it will fit the eye wear screen. Then, you can proceed with writing the rest of the content. Make sure it is conversational enough, and the delivery style is broadcaster-like. The reason for this is, Google Glass is voice-oriented, and it reports the answers to the searcher in broadcast manner.
The Google voice command crawls for information like speed bullet, and it presents the information in the most concise fashion (around 4 lines, fitting the eye wear screen). This means, you have to practice presenting information as if you are live in the broadcast studio.
Next, share your post with the Google+ community. Invite your friends to like, comment, share, and write positive reviews about you and the article you wrote. This will help you increase your authority rate as well as reviews rate. The higher vote you have, the higher chance you will be reported by Google Glass.
2. Make your business establishment tops the Google Places. The number of positive reviews you have in your Google+ will directly be integrated with your Google Places status. This means, Google regards you and your local business establishment as having a reputable standing in the community, and is worthy of recommendation. With this philosophy, it is necessary to gather positive testimonials, feedbacks, reviews, and comments from your actual customers and clients, which are also living with your locale. Make sure to update your business address, and it reflects the accurate location in Google Map. Also, have your Google+ business page verified, and mention your town name or city name often alongside with your phone number and email address. The game is in regional trade, and your location plays a big role in being significantly recommended by the local people.
For sure, Google Glass will incorporate other social media sites in its main operations, but for now, focus on Google+ and Google Places. Remember to provide ready question and answer info snippets in these two accounts. You will still have to make your content viral by promoting it in Google+ and to other social media sites such as Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, You Tube, and Facebook. Somehow, you can still propagate your main website's URL link so as to unify your internet marketing efforts; thus, Google can have a clear path to walk through your social connections.
There are more exciting features that Google Glass will showcase in the upcoming months; we can just expect that these changes are geared toward making the search experience easier and even hands-free. The authority of information-givers is ever important nowadays and is much rated in terms of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). The path towards a successful Search Engine Optimization (SEO) campaign in the next months depend on how well you can help Google voice command reports the precise answers to the people's questions. The relevancy of everyday queries matters much for the Google masters as well as for you- the SEO specialist… you should.
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After a night of work on a flight, I managed to use the conventional neuroevolution (CNE) trainer module I created to train a box2d based double-pendulum-cart environment to self balance the a double inverted pendulum. This was something very difficult to accomplish with normal PID controllers. I think if I wanted to build a deterministic controller for this system, I could have used a more complicated LQR controller which would have handled the complexity of the system, but what I really wanted to accomplish was not to balance the pendulum, but rather train a network to learn about some environment and learn to adapt in that environment to achieve some task, so that these techniques can be applied to other more challenging tasks in the future.
It seems that using neuroevolution based algorithms is a good start in these task-based simulations. After 100 generations or so of training, it started to be able to rebalance itself, despite being a highly unstable non-linear system with multiple joints. Below is a demo of the trainer used to train the network to self balance. One can start seeing progress after 100 generations.
The final result of the trained neural network can be viewed in this demo, or in the instagram video below:
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While the result worked, and the double inverted pendulum does rebalance itself for a while, I'm not entirely satisfied with the result, as depending on different starting conditions, the network will fail. I also had to hack it with two pre-trained networks, one to swing the thing upwards, and the other to maintain the position. I feel that I need a better approach to train the network so that it can do both tasks with one net, and do it well. Also, eventually it will lose balance and fall to one side after a while. I have to think about next steps to improve the level of sophistication in its thinking.
The next steps to follow is to implement more sophisticated GA algorithms that are more powerful than CNE (conventional neuroevolution). The problem with CNE is that progress stops after a while, since the entire population loses diversity from reproducing itself just with similar sibling networks (……..). Eventually one still ends up with a local optimum as most solutions look similar to each other after many crossover mutation training generations.
Other methods such as ESP, or NEAT may be able to achieve more robust and stable networks. I'm going to try to tackle ESP next, since it is basically a parallel set of feed-forward networks within a larger recursive network, which is doable within the convnet.js framework. For NEAT type algorithms where the actual network structure evolves, I may need to look at other neural net libraries, or start hacking on the recurrent.js experimental code. That can open another big can of worms!


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Justin B. Terry-Smith has been involved in Gay and HIV Activism since 1999. He is an Air Force 9/11 Disabled Vet. Raised in Silver Spring, MD, he now lives in Severn, MD with his husband Phil. He writes an HIV/STI Advice Column for A&U Magazine, is a Contributing writer for thebody.com, a Life Coach and an Adjunct Professor. He has earned his Doctorate in Public Health with a concentration in Infectious Disease.
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Justin's HIV Journal: U.S Congress & President Obama Repeal Don't Ask Do...
This video was taken when the Senate voted to repeal the, "Don't Ask Don't Tell Policy". That was on Saturday. Today on 12/22/10 President Barack Obama fulfilled a campaign promise that he now repealed DADT.
Don't' Ask Don't Tell is the policy that restricts the United States military from efforts to discover or reveal closeted homosexual or bisexual servicemembers or applicants, while barring those who are openly gay, lesbian, or bisexual from military service.
DADT was introduced by then President Bill Clinton in 1993. At the time in the Department of Defense Directive 1332.14 stated, "that homosexuality is incompatible with military service and persons who engaged in homosexual acts or stated that they are homosexual or bisexual were discharged"
The full name of the policy at the time was "Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Pursue." The "Don't Ask" provision mandates that military or appointed officials will not ask about or require members to reveal their sexual orientation. The "Don't Tell" states that a member may be discharged for claiming to be a homosexual or bisexual or making a statement indicating a tendency towards or intent to engage in homosexual activities. The "Don't Pursue" establishes what is minimally required for an investigation to be initiated. A "Don't Harass" provision was added to the policy later. It ensures that the military will not allow harassment or violence against service members for any reason.
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DADT was total bullshyt. I AM A GAY AIRFORCE VETERAN. I hated not being able to put a rainbow sticker on my car. I'm damn proud of who I was and am. When I was in the military several personnel knew I was gay, and guess what THEY DIDN'T GIVE A RATS @$$. BUT in basic training I was the target of harassment, sexual harassment. In basic training we all had our own beds and one of my jobs was to go past each bed and collect used hangers from each person. There was a particular group of young men that I would have to go past everyday. One of them shouted, "You got a lot of your mother in you, don't you?" I didn't know what that meant at all. They continued to snicker as I would walk by everyday. Then one day when I thought everyone left the barracks I had to be there alone cleaning up because I had missed drill, and as punishment I had to clean. Two men from the group previously mentioned came into the barracks and began to taunt me and grope me. I DID NOT LIKE IT. I couldn't tell anyone about what happened because I was fearful about getting kicked out of the military. It went on for a week and I remained silent.
DADT is gone THANK YOU MR. PRESIDENT and CONGRESS.
If I could go back in the military I would.
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Theresa Meier has been working as a student assistant at the Department of Health Care Management since May 2018. Here, she is involved in the SELFIE project [2]. Between 2014 and 2017 she completed her Bachelor's degree in Economics at the TU Berlin and is now studying in the Master's program Industrial and Network Economics with a focus on health economics and a special interest in pharmaceuticals.
She is currently writing her master's thesis on the temporal relationships between antibiotic application in veterinary medicine and the development of resistance in humans. In the future she is planning to continue working in research.