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This is worth a looksee...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN06JSi-SW8...feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpQQGFZHSno...feature=related
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Bob Carter is a very good speaker, and he is showing some very nice-looking charts. He glosses over global warming when it occurs, though, preferring to point to extremes that he can mock as absurd conclusions by climatologists.
Bob Carter is not a climatologist. His area of study is marine geology. Rocks. http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bob_Carter
His methodology for demonstrating a lack of global warming "since 1998" is refuted convincingly here: http://www.logicalscience.com/skeptics/bobcarter.html
It also comments that Carter receives funding from Big Oil. Does that mean anything? I think so.
Now, to another issue regarding science and scientists. The greatest skeptic of global warming has been, until recently, the Bush Administration. That administration has also been indicted as censoring NASA scientists who have expressed their belief in the problem of global warming. Why, pray tell, if global warming is a myth and real scientists know it, does our government have to muzzle the real scientists on their payroll who express their concern about the human contribution to global warming? Makes me believe that there must be more than a little truth to the worries of global warming. Sorry to post almost the entire article, but I don't think that the link will work. Here it is, perhaps it will work. http://environment.newscientist.com/channe...ate-change.html
US climate scientists pressured on climate change
NewScientist.com news service
New Scientist Environment and Reuters
US scientists were pressured to tailor their reports on global warming to fit the Bush administration's climate change scepticism, a congressional committee heard on Tuesday 30 January. In some cases, this occurred at the request of a former oil-industry lobbyist. "High-quality science [is] struggling to get out," Francesca Grifo, of the watchdog group Union of Concerned Scientists, told members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. A UCS survey found that 150 climate scientists personally experienced political interference in the past five years in a total of at least 435 incidents.
"Nearly half of all respondents perceived or personally experienced pressure to eliminate the words 'climate change', 'global warming' or other similar terms from a variety of communications," Grifo said.
Rick Piltz, a former US government scientist, told the committee that former White House official Phil Cooney took an active role in casting doubt on the consequences of global climate change. Piltz said he resigned in 2005 as a result of pressure to soft-pedal findings on global warming.
Cooney, who was a lobbyist for the American Petroleum Institute before becoming chief of staff at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, also resigned in 2005. He went on to work for oil giant ExxonMobil, which was recently accused of spending $16 million on supporting climate sceptics.
"Speculative musing"
Documents on global climate change required Cooney's review and approval, Piltz said, adding that "If you know what you are writing has to go through a White House clearance before it is to be published, […] an anticipatory kind of self-censorship sets in."
He added: "[Cooney's] edits of programme reports, which had been drafted and approved by career science programme managers, had the cumulative effect of adding an enhanced sense of scientific uncertainty about global warming and minimising its likely consequences."
According to The Guardian newspaper, Piltz described how Cooney had personally edited out a key section of an Environmental Protection Agency report to Congress on the dangers of climate change, calling it "speculative musing".
Henry Waxman, a California Democrat who chairs the oversight committee, complained that the White House has balked at supplying documents requested over six months to investigate these allegations.
"The committee isn't trying to obtain state secrets or documents that could affect our immediate national security," Waxman said. "We are simply seeking answers to whether the White House's political staff is inappropriately censoring impartial government scientists."
Kristen Hellmer, of the Council on Environmental Quality, part of the Executive Office of the US President, said the CEQ had been cooperating with Congress. When asked about allegations of political interference in scientific documents, she said: "We do have in place a very transparent system in science reporting."
Spate of accusations
Reporting on the hearing, the New York Times says that even Republicans had little good to say of the Bush administration's handling of climate change science. Almost all the Republicans on the panel began by stating that global warming was happening and that greenhouse gases from human activities were largely to blame.
The Bush administration has suffered a spate of accusations of muzzling climate scientists in recent years. In January 2006, James Hansen, director of the US space agency's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said that officials at NASA headquarters had ordered their staff to review his lectures, papers, postings on the Goddard website and requests for media interviews (see Top climatologist accuses US of trying to gag him).
In February 2006, the topic was brought up in the House Committee on Science, and New Scientist reported that scientists at another government agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, were also upset about the situation.
The UCS issued its first accusations in February 2004, followed closely by more finger pointing in July of that year.
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Makes one wonder who to believe but, if the scientists cannot agree then it would be sensible to adopt the precautionary approach until such time as they can agree. Being careful can't be harmful.
I just wonder why we even bother paying enormous sums for scientists education and research. Given that training is basically the same and the climatic data is the same then they should all be singing from the same song sheet.
Good old world we live in; even if it is getting hotter,....erm----colder......no hotter.....umph whatever.
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Well of course he gets funding from oil companies...he is a marine geologist.
The "long range historical data" is nonetheless worth considering. Five to ten years from now we will have to revisit the topic to see if the climate is running away hot or cold. If weather were a stock, I'd be shorting hard.
Yup, he's a marine geologist, not a climatologist, nor a meteorologist. And long range historical data, as he demonstrates in tape 1, shows that global warming has gone on for 16,000 years at least. And his cooling over the past 2,000 years or so is not so easily seen - that line could as easily have been placed on an ascending slope rather than his descending slope. No data, just his wide blue line.
No, I found his speech excellent, but I saw no hard data, just nice lines that could as easily have been sloped the other way. Give me the data, not his pictures and patter.
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Awww, c'mon, it's funny, don't you think?
I will have to send it to my AGW friends up North. They will enjoy it.
Ah...just when you thought it was over...
Weather Channel Founder Blasts Network; Claims It Is 'Telling Us What to Think'
TWC founder and global warming skeptic advocates suing Al Gore to expose 'the fraud of global warming.'
http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2...0303175301.aspx
The Weather Channel has been an outlet for global warming alarmism. In December 2006, The Weather Channel's Heidi Cullen argued on her blog that weathercasters who had doubts about human influence on global warming should be punished with decertification by the American Meteorological Society.
Seeratlas
Just a couple of questions and comments.
1. Trim? just what constitutes a 'scientist' and who/what bestows that title?
2. I happen to concur with your simplified explanation on current reef destruction.
3. My own analysis is that for the majority of the populated portions of the planet, we are more likely to soon enter a period of global 'cooling'.
4. you might explain to me how being presumably , a chemical engineer on a fuel cell project qualifies one as a climatologist any more than say a marine biologist or a paleo geologist....or a second year double e major for that matter.
5. Out of all the people I ever encountered studying to become a journalist, I can't recall a single political conservative in the bunch. Anyone else ever see one?
6. Unfortunately the global warming political phenom appears to have little to do with science, imho. Looks to me more like a UN mechanism to channel more funds in the form of carbon credit purchases from rich nations to the by and large corrupt officials of poor third world nations, or Mr. Gore selling credits to himself
7. Anyone who believes that mankind cannot affect the health of the planet, at least short term, has never seen a nuclear blast or its aftermath. Long term requires more, course then again, we have more...lots more- caveat, 'long term' to humanity is barely a blink to the planet.
8. Lastly, what makes you so sure that the planet is an equilibrium seeking entity? Among other things,
wouldn't that presume a closed system ? hehehehe.
Interesting "discussion" however, as others have observed, you might have more accurately titled your thread.."Think you know something about Global Warming, ? COME AND GET SOME!!!!"
one thing for sure, we will all, or at least those under 85 or so, see for ourselves soon enough.
Originally Posted by Seeratlas
Looks to me more like a UN mechanism to channel more funds in the form of carbon credit purchases from rich nations to the by and large corrupt officials of poor third world nations
Reminds me of a definition of aid which I heard from a Dutch aid coordinator, "Aid is the act of poor people in rich countries giving money to rich people in poor countries".
Somewhat cynical approach but, by my own observations in Africa and the Middle East, largely true. But I suppose we can and should always question motives. Maybe Mr. Gore would care to reply to the comment?
As to the truth about global warming I cannot comment. All I can say, when I look out across the Baltic today and see a stormy sea is that when I was a child there would have been no waves here at this time of year - just the odd pressure ridge in the ice. Now if global warming had existed 350 years ago the Swedish army would never have been able to march across the ice to Denmark and defeat the Danes which just goes to show that global warming is not completely negative.
My definition is simply one who employs scientific method to acquire knowledge. I don't believe anyone bestows the title as it is typically earned. I was once a scientist, but now I am merely an engineering manager. I do miss the simple life of a scientist though
Yes, very simplified.
Completely agreed.
The original post was intended to invite discussion…and it did. Purely for fun, however the topic often invites some passion on the subject from some…which is a good thing.
Most scientists hold multiple degrees in various forms of engineering and science. Typically their final degree fosters their specialized title. Personally I have 3 degrees and none of them would suggest that I was or wanted to be a climatologist…Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical & Environmental Engineering and Materials Science. For some strange reason my carrier took me into alternative energy and therefore I've gained lots of experience in electrochemistry and electrical engineering working on Li-Ion batteries and fuel cells.
I am no more qualified to predict the weather than a 2 year old…but it remains fun to debate.
I believe David a.k.a. Auzzee may be the only one!
6. Unfortunately the global warming political phenom appears to have little to do with science, imho. Looks to me more like a UN mechanism to channel more funds in the form of carbon credit purchases from rich nations to the by and large corrupt officials of poor third world nations, or Mr. Gore selling credits to himself.
I believe the AGW debate will in the long-term eventually play into the favor of nuclear energy. In the near-term it has given birth to a new venture capital market for green energy. It will be interesting to see how market evolves. Will it be another dot-com bubble?
8. Lastly, what makes you so sure that the planet is an equilibrium seeking entity? Among other things, wouldn't that presume a closed system ?
Paleogeology is all we really can rely on…but until someone can tell me what gravity is without using the words "space-time", I will doubt there really is anything that is a truly closed system.
BP, General Motors See Hydrogen In Their Future
By Steve Hargreaves
Washington, D.C. -- Top executives of BP and General Motors Corp., two of the world's largest corporations, outlined on Tuesday their visions for the future of renewable energy.
They came to the same bottom line: Hydrogen will likely fuel the cars of the future, although it could take 50 years to get there. Until then, each company will pursue different strategies for developing new energy sources.
Their comments kicked off the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference, a global meeting of energy officials organized by the U.S. State Department, and an adjoining trade show with over 300 vendors and energy industry luminaries.
Speakers ranged from BP head Tony Hayward to U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman to venture capitalist Vinod Khosla.
The meeting, scheduled to last several days, frames one of the greatest challenges facing the world economy today: The need to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2050 to avoid the worst effects of global warming, while fueling a worldwide economic boom expected to use 50 percent more power by 2030.
"Relying on the internal combustion alone is probably not going to get us there," said Robert Babik, director of emissions, environment, energy and safety policy at General Motors (GM, Fortune 500). "The key is to let electrification of the vehicle play a critical role."
To that end, Babik said GM is rolling out its all-electric Chevy Volt hopefully by late 2009 and is pushing its "E-Flex" design concept.
The E-Flex is a vehicle with an electric motor that also has an on-board electricity generator to charge the batteries on long trips or other times when the vehicle can't be plugged into an electric outlet. The generator could either be a conventional gasoline engine, an engine that runs on biofuel or, eventually, a bank of hydrogen fuel cells that Babik said could be the fuel of choice 50 years from now.
"We're trying to make this a very consumer friendly vehicle," Babik said of the Volt. The all-electric vehicle will be able to travel 40 miles on electricity before the motor kicks in and is expected to cost about the same as a typical Chevy compact sedan.
The Long View: Expensive Alternative
One analyst said GM is right to be developing a variety of cars - from hybrids and diesels to electric and hydrogen.
"The game has barely started, and GM is in the forefront," said Jim Hossack, a consultant at the auto research firm AutoPacific.
But, citing hydrogen's costs and lack of infrastructure, he said it will be a long time before it's commercially viable. "You won't see it in mine or your lifetime," he said.
Oil giant BP is also eying hydrogen for its long-term potential, although in the short run the company plans on sticking with its investments in wind and solar technology.
To spur those investments, which total about $1 billion a year, BP's Hayward called on governments around the world to enact regulations limiting the amount of carbon dioxide that can be emitted each year, and called for subsidies to help fledging technologies get off the ground.
He said developed nations should go ahead and enact carbon controls regardless of what China or India does.
"A global trading system should be our ultimate goal, but we shouldn't be deterred from starting on a regional basis now," he said.
The United States has resisted signing international treaties like the Kyoto partly because India, China and other developing countries refuse to join.
Hayward said BP is looking to develop advanced biofuels that don't require food crops to make. Corn-based ethanol, a gasoline substitute, has recently attracted lots of negative attention in the United States and elsewhere because it's being blamed for driving up the price of food.
He recently said he might spin off the firm's renewable energy division because he thinks its value is not being fairly reflected in the company's share price. Still, BP is one of the larger investors in renewable energy.
"They will continue to invest more, it's one of the fastest growing parts of the division," said Fadel Gheit, an energy analyst at Oppenheimer.
Cleaning Up: $2 Billion Investment
In other events at the conference, Energy Secretary Bodman applauded the private sector's investment in clean technology, which he said has gone from $500 million in 2005 to over $2 billion in 2007.
And Vinod Khosla, a well known venture capitalist and ethanol advocate, cautioned the audience against placing too much faith in statistics - like the ones showing the world will use 50% more power in 2030 or that renewables will still only make up a small percentage of the world's energy usage by then.
"Forecasts are important, but most of these forecasts are wrong," he said.
Khosla cited a host of historical forecasts that proved incorrect, from oil prices trading at $20 a barrel to a study he said AT&T commissioned in 1980 showing 1 million cell phone users by 2000. Of course, the actual number of cell phones in 2000 had exceeded 100 million.
"It's the power of ideas and entrepreneurship that will determine our future - not these forecasts," he said.
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Perhaps we now need a statistician to produce a computer model which can be used to interpret data regarding visits to Carter's four part presentation.
80,154 people opened part one
32,402, part two,
25,327, part three, and
25,444, part four.
In reiterating my original belief that global warming is cyclical, I offer that I am unqualified and find no other basis for my belief than my own casual research which typically involves reading and watching presentations by people who are more academically qualified than me.
I am merely a man of moderate knowledge, with a reasonable level of logical capability and the oftentimes successful journalist's ability to pick the truth from within supposition.
I am going to buy stocks in sheep farming and woolen mills.
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Maria Ressa: Philippine journalist is arrested again
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-47742641?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/cnx753je2r4t/philippines&link_location=live-reporting-story
Image caption Maria Ressa was detained on arrival at Manila's main international airport
Prominent Philippine journalist Maria Ressa has been re-arrested at Manila airport, allegedly for violating laws barring foreign ownership of media.
Ms Ressa, the founder of news site Rappler, was granted bail after paying P90,000 ($1700; £1300).
It comes weeks after she was arrested over an alleged internet libel case.
Press freedom advocates say the veteran reporter is being targeted by President Rodrigo Duterte because of Rappler's critical reporting on the government.
Eleven legal cases have been filed against the outlet since January 2018.
Ms Ressa, who was named one of Time Magazine's People of the Year in 2018, spoke to reporters as she was arrested.
"Obviously this is yet another abuse of my rights. I am being treated like a criminal when my only crime is to be an independent journalist," she said.
After her previous arrest on 13 February she spent a night in jail before being released on bail.
Ms Ressa was arrested moments after stepping off a plane from San Francisco, ABS-CBN, reported.
Before arriving, apparently aware that she might be met by police officers, she tweeted: "Landing in a short while to face my latest arrest warrant and the 7th time I will post bail."
She then posted a series of tweets following her arrest, including a photograph from inside the police car.
Later she tweeted again, writing: "Am posting bail for 7th time! For being a journalist."
Why was Ressa arrested?
The government accuses Ms Ressa, who has both Philippine and American nationality, of having violated foreign ownership rules and committed securities fraud. According to Philippine law, media organisations must be completely Filipino-owned.
Rappler has denied government allegations that the website is being controlled by an organisation outside of the Phillipines, and press freedom organisations say the charges are designed to intimidate independent journalists.
Human Rights Watch said: "The court case is unprecedented and speaks volumes of the Duterte administration's determination to shut the website down for its credible and consistent reporting on the government."
Image caption Ms Ressa was taken from the airport in a police car
In February, Ms Ressa was accused of "cyber-libel" over a report on a businessman's alleged ties to a former judge. Two months earlier she had posted bail on tax fraud charges, which she described as "manufactured".
If convicted of one count of tax fraud, she could serve up to a decade in prison. The cyber-libel charge carries a maximum sentence of 12 years.
Philippine journalist: Tax charges are fake
Arrests raise press freedom concerns
The repeated arrests of Ms Ressa have drawn international condemnation and raised concerns about worsening press freedom in the country.
Rappler has reported extensively on President Deterte's hardline war on drugs, in which police say around 5,000 people have been killed over the past three years. In December, the website reported on Mr Duterte's public admission that he had sexually assaulted a maid.
Image caption Ms Ressa says the arrest is an attempt to silence Rappler's journalism.
President Rodrigo Duterte has previously denied charges against Ms Ressa are politically motivated, describing the website as "fake news".
Since 1986, 176 journalists have been killed in the Philippines, making it one of the most dangerous in the world for reporters. In 2016, the president was criticised for saying some of those journalists deserved to die.
Why Rappler is raising Philippine press freedom fears
What is Rappler?
Rappler was founded in 2012 by Ms Ressa and three other journalists and has gone on to become known in the Philippines for its hard-hitting investigations.
It is also one of the few media organisations in the country that is openly critical of President Duterte, regularly interrogating the accuracy of his public statements and criticising his sometimes deadly policies.
The president has banned its reporters from covering his official activities and last year the state revoked the site's licence.
Ms Ressa is a veteran Philippine journalist who, before founding Rappler, spent most of her career with CNN - first as the bureau chief in Manila, and then in Jakarta. She was also the US broadcaster's lead investigative reporter on terrorism in Southeast Asia.
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Premier keeps job growth on the agenda in Roma
by Christian Berechree
JOBS and economic growth were firmly on the agenda during the Queensland Premier's tour of Roma.
Adding to the list of recent high profile political visitors to the region, Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk touched down in Roma on Monday.
During a visit to Roma Hospital, the Premier said she was committed to prioritising local employment during the hospital redevelopment.
"We want to make sure that people are getting employment here locally," she said.
"I would have a very firm expectation that priority is given to local people involved in the construction, involved in the demolition, because this is their hospital."
The first stage of demolition at Roma Hospital is scheduled to begin on Monday, January 23.
Premier Palaszczuk said the hospital was in desperate need of repair.
"It was absolutely ridiculous here. When the lifts weren't working they would have to take patients over the roof for emergency surgery," she said.
The redevelopment would be an important step forward for healthcare in the region, she said.
"This is great news for the community, because this $70 million redevelopment is a great investment for the health of the families living in this region," she said.
Visiting the regions was an essential part of her role, Premier Palaszczuk said.
"You can't sit behind a desk and make decisions that impact on people's lives unless you are out on the ground listening and understanding people's concerns and issues," she said.
"Here, one of the biggest issues has been health in this region. That is why my government is putting $70 million into the redevelopment."
The Premier also spoke about the wild dog fencing roll-out throughout part of south-west Queensland, saying it contributed to job growth in the region.
"What we've seen with the rolling out of the wild dog fencing is an opportunity for local employment, but also reinvigorating the sheep and wool industry that has been decimated," she said.
Record cattle prices at the Roma saleyards were an encouraging sign for the industry and the region, she said. with over $160million worth of sales in Roma since June last year.
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Wasted time is like overcooking a meal until it burns. The energy and resources used can never be replaced. You only have one shot at the time that you have to live. Use all of it in a timely effective manner. God should be at the center of your time management, so that the good works you do reflects miracles, signs, and wonders of God's hand on your life Don't put God on time out, because of your idolatry.
Idle Idolatry is when you spend too much time thinking about what you want and not what God wants for your life. Your ideas and stuff are more important than the Godly things you should be doing. Something is wrong with this picture. The type of lifestyle you live should reflect the love of God in all that you do and the importance of your spiritual work will be at the top of your game, not the bottom of your list.
Did you clean up and get rid of the mess you are worshiping and holding on to?
6 Then David again gathered all the elite troops in Israel, 30,000 in all. 2 He led them to Baalah of Judah[a] to bring back the Ark of God, which bears the name of the Lord of Heaven's Armies,[b] who is enthroned between the cherubim. 3 They placed the Ark of God on a new cart and brought it from Abinadab's house, which was on a hill. Uzzah and Ahio, Abinadab's sons, were guiding the cart 4 that carried the Ark of God.[c] Ahio walked in front of the Ark. 5 David and all the people of Israel were celebrating before the Lord, singing songs[d] and playing all kinds of musical instruments—lyres, harps, tambourines, castanets, and cymbals.
9 David was now afraid of the Lord, and he asked, "How can I ever bring the Ark of the Lord back into my care?" 10 So David decided not to move the Ark of the Lord into the City of David. Instead, he took it to the house of Obed-edom of Gath.11 The Ark of the Lord remained there in Obed-edom's house for three months, and the Lord blessed Obed-edom and his entire household.
12 Then King David was told, "The Lord has blessed Obed-edom's household and everything he has because of the Ark of God." So David went there and brought the Ark of God from the house of Obed-edom to the City of David with a great celebration. 13 After the men who were carrying the Ark of the Lord had gone six steps, David sacrificed a bull and a fattened calf. 14 And David danced before the Lord with all his might, wearing a priestly garment.[f] 15 So David and all the people of Israel brought up the Ark of the Lord with shouts of joy and the blowing of rams' horns.
When children make mistakes or do something well, people and their parents should be available to encourage or discourage training in responsibility for their actions. Kids who are unsupervised can learn to hide disobedient behaviors because the truth is not reinforced, trained, and maintained at all levels to grow strong roots in personal character and ethics. Parents, family, and people are always teaching mistakes or positive daily lessons in life whether we know it or not.
As children grow up and copy people and their environment, their character begins to shape into the content that has been collected from their heart over time and their experiences will copy the success or failure of that content. The older child must decide which direction to choose and follow the path of a fool or wise person. Since many examples of goodness and truth are all around us, it is our personal choice to prefer foolishness over doing the right things in life. When you study what children watch, copy, and imitate, you can see the origin and content of their selections.
It is the parent's job to provide the right mix of people, places, and things to teach the Biblical Truth and help their families understand the truth from the stories in the proper context. You cannot use part of a story to prove a personal point or argue an agenda. The truth stands alone all by itself, and God doesn't need any help in telling His written story. The goal of a successful parent is to present and live an accurate example of God's lifestyle from the commandments and stories of old. These standards are the building blocks of strong humanity, honesty, and integrity within the Gospels of Parenting. Your kids can only copy what you know and do.
What are you exposing your children and other people too– God's integrity or satan's wickedness?
There is a positive spin and every negative situation, when you look for it, while praying for comfort. By faith, you begin to understand the bigger picture from God's perspective so that you can relax and let God be God.
The more you complain, the less you get done and the worse you feel. The more you spread the good side of things, the healthier your outlook, mind, body, spirit, and soul will feel. Your choice to spin up or spin down is a heart condition, which trains the mind to be content while doing the good work.
Eliminate the negative spins in life from you wheel of fortune that you have received from God's Word, Works, and Lifestyle. Find the Good and use the wisdom to prepare for the bad with better answers and options to deflect evil. Evil will come, so have your holy umbrella in tow and twirl it around like a wheel of fortune and protection.
If the evidence of your positive mindset is your smile and helping hands then, why are you always in a bad mood?
17 At the Lord's command, the whole community of Israel left the wilderness of Sin[a] and moved from place to place. Eventually they camped at Rephidim, but there was no water there for the people to drink. 2 So once more the people complained against Moses. "Give us water to drink!" they demanded.
Your work gets done faster and better when you compliment the people around you to compliment your good work ethics. If your work ethics are minimal then it is hard to give someone else a true compliment, coming from a lazy person who does not finish their tasks in a timely fashion.
You must turn your bad habits around into good habits by following God's blueprint for success, the Bible. At best, your ideas are flawed, however, God will give you better ideas, if you are listening and paying attention to Him. Capitalize on your obedience and bless someone in need and pay your help and workers well. Don't become a cheap Pharaoh, master of rundown slaves.
Treat people like you want to be treated and respect their hard work ethics. Good information, talent, and competent people are not a threat to your organization, job, or dreams. Dreams take a lifetime to build and you must respect and take care of your mind, body, spirit, and soul to complete your life's body of work.
Why did you give up so easily on your dreams by following the devil, not doing God's good work or believing you could finish what God has given you?
16 Then the whole community of Israel set out from Elim and journeyed into the wilderness of Sin,[a] between Elim and Mount Sinai. They arrived there on the fifteenth day of the second month, one month after leaving the land of Egypt.[b]2 There, too, the whole community of Israel complained about Moses and Aaron.


With Condoleezza Rice canceling her commencement address at Rutgers, Christine Lagarde withdrawing from Smith, and Robert Birgeneau bowing out of Haverford, this exceptionally controversial commencement season raises a basic question: Who — if anyone — qualifies as an "appropriate" graduation speaker? According to humorist Dan Zevin, the answer is obvious: he does. Herewith, the remarks he's prepared just in case he's asked to jump in.
Salutations and good tidings to the class of 2014. Today is a day to be met with youthful enthusiasm, steadfast commitment and powerful anti-anxiety medication. For today you stand poised on the precipice of Mount Tomorrow, searching for pomp in uncertain circumstances.
My friends, I feel your pain.
Long ago, I was much like you: a nervous young graduate forced to appear in public wearing a humiliating cap-and-gown ensemble. What the real world had in store for me, I did not know.
And yet, I persevered, learning the hard way the skills one needs to succeed. And now, as you approach the Starting Gate of Possibility, it is my honor to pass you the torch. Let the other commencement addressers puff you up with their pie-in-the-sky platitudes. I am here to dispense inspiration you will find far more useful.
As you set forth to negotiate the serpentine twists of your career path, you may occasionally find yourselves lost, confused, searching for a way to convince potential employers that your past jobs were vastly more professional than they actually were. It is at these junctures that I urge you to remember the impressive SAT words you memorized to get into college, and to apply them to your résumé.
Allow me to provide an uplifting yet fictionalized personal anecdote, a technique I have borrowed from my commencement-addressing colleagues. Many years ago, I spent an afternoon filing invoices at my father's office. Here is how that career appears on my résumé: principal alphabetizing-systems-implementation liaison.
Let the other commencement addressers puff you up with their pie-in-the-sky platitudes. I am here to dispense inspiration you will find far more useful.
Another question you are asking yourselves as you come to the Crossroads of Potential is, "Where will I be after college?" To you I say this: you will be in an apartment with more roommates than rooms. But as you take that titan step from dorm to dump, do not settle for the first dump you see. Look at many dumps, and in time, you will find that special dump that suits your needs. This is because the more you look, the fewer needs you'll realize you have. For here at the Tollbooth on Independence Turnpike, you do not need a microwave oven or a flat screen, internet-ready, high-definition television. You simply need a roommate who already owns these things.
Perhaps there is another question you are asking yourselves as you dive into the deep end of your destiny: "How will I adjust to life after college?" I will tell you how: by having a drink. Graduates, you heard that correctly. I said "a" drink. Singular. One. Of the myriad challenges that await you beyond these hallowed halls, the toughest of all will be that traumatic transition from keg to cocktail. I will not kid you by pretending it will be easy, for change never is. But I will assure you of this: in the years that lie ahead, the idea of drinking warm beer foam out a rubber hose connected to a garbage can will lose a certain amount of allure. And when it does, I am confident that you will rise to the occasion. For you are a generation of achievers. Soon you'll be achieving with one stiff cocktail what used to take half a keg to achieve.
In conclusion, I would not be doing my job as a commencement speaker if I did not leave you with some useful pearls of wisdom about the World That Is Your Oyster.
1. When in doubt, choose a career the same way you chose your college major: according to which ones start latest in the afternoon.
2. When reading classified apartment ads on Craigslist, remember that "fireplace" usually means "a place that was (or is) on fire."
3. Moving back into your parents' house is an excellent idea as long as you move your parents out first.
4. Treat your search for a perfect mate the same way you treat your search for a perfect job: lower your standards.
5. Above all else, keep two very important words in mind as you leave the Sheltered Shores of Scholarship to enter this strange new world — a world where the calendar no longer revolves in cycles beginning in September and ending in May; a world where you are expected to wake up each day before the sun sets; a world where job attendance is mandatory. Those two words, my young friends, are these: graduate school.
Dan Zevin is an author and the recipient of the 2013 Thurber Award for American Humor. His latest book is "Dan Gets a Minivan: Life at the Intersection of Dude and Dad."


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Risdiplam yields motor function gains for Type 1 SMA babies
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Treatment with risdiplam helps infants with Type 1 spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) gained significant motor functions, according to the FIREFISH Part 2 pivotal trial presented during the AAN 2020 Meeting.
"Type 1 SMA is a severe, progressive neuromuscular disease. Untreated infants fail to achieve major motor milestones and typically die before the age of 2," said Professor Laurent Servais from the MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre at the University of Oxford, UK.
After 1 year of treatment, 29 percent of the infants (p<0.0001, based on the prespecified performance criterion of 5 percent) met the primary endpoint of sitting without support for at least 5 seconds, reported Servais. [AAN 2020, abstract P8.011]
"Without treatment, children with Type 1 SMA are never able to sit without support at 12 months," he highlighted.
The global, multicentre, open-label FIREFISH study enrolled infants aged 1–7 months with Type 1 SMA and two SMN2* gene copies. SMA is caused by reduced levels of SMN protein due to deletions and/or mutations in the SMN1 gene. While a second gene, SMN2, codes for a functional SMN protein, the levels produced are only very low.
Previously, Part 1 of the study (n=21) assessed the safety and pharmacology of different risdiplam doses and found no drug-related safety signals leading to study discontinuation following ≤30 months (median 19 months) of treatment. The current Part 2 study (n=41; mean age 5.3 years, 54 percent girls) aimed to investigate the efficacy of risdiplam using the selected doses based on Part 1 data.
Compared with natural history of the disease, treatment with risdiplam led to substantial improvement in event-free survival. Ninety-three percent of the infants were still alive and 85 percent were event-free after 12 months of treatment. The median time to reaching death or permanent ventilation for these infants was not estimable due to lack of events, compared with a median time of 10.5 months (90 percent confidence interval [CI], 8.1–13.6) in natural history.
There were also significant gains in HINE-2** motor milestones after 12 months: 78 percent of the infants responded to treatment based on the HINE-2 scale (p<0.0001, prespecified response criterion=12 percent), which included measures on head control (76 percent), sitting (62 percent), standing (22 percent), and walking (2 percent).
Similar improvements in motor function were seen on the CHOP-INTEND*** scale, with 90 percent of the infants achieving ≥4 points increase in CHOP-INTEND total score at 12 months (p<0.0001, prespecified performance criterion =17 percent).
Specifically, more than half of the infants (56 percent) achieved a CHOP-INTEND score of ≥40 at 12 months (p<0.0001), a feat that was rarely seen in children with type 1 SMA in natural history, according to Servais. Also, infants treated with risdiplam saw a median improvement of 20 points from baseline in CHOP-INTEND scores, compared with a steady decline over time in untreated infants in nature history.
Among the infants who were still alive at 12 months (n=38), 95 percent maintained the ability to swallow and 86 percent were able to feed orally. This was in contrast to those in a natural history cohort, in which all infants with type 1 SMA older than 12 months required feeding support.
Almost half (49 percent) of all infants did not require hospitalization up to 12 months. Hospitalization rate was 1.3 per patient-year (90 percent CI, 1.02–1.65), compared with a rate between ~4.2 to 7.6 hospitalizations annually in natural history.
Importantly, there were no drug-related adverse events (AEs) leading to treatment discontinuation. The most frequent AE was upper respiratory tract infection, with pneumonia being the most common serious AE. Nonetheless, the incidence of serious pneumonia declined by approximately half between the first and the second 6-month periods, observed Servais. There were no drug-related ophthalmologic findings, whereas skin events were nonserious and resolved with ongoing treatment.
"Risdiplam is an orally administered, centrally, and peripherally distributed SMN2 pre-mRNA splicing modifier that increases the levels of functional SMN protein," explained the researchers.
It is an experimental drug which has been granted priority review by the US FDA late last year and is currently pending a decision.
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Engadget just posted a nice wrap-up of their CEDIA coverage. (I was not able to attend CEDIA; after Nokia's big London event last week, I went to RIM and Motorola events this week and even had to follow the Apple announcements from afar due to scheduling). The big news both at CEDIA and in the press last month is around the HD-DVD Blu-ray war; HD-DVD gained a studio just when it appeared Blu-ray was pulling away with software sales, and both Samsung and LG have new dual-format players coming to market demonstrated at the show.
Back in January at CES, I attended the launch of LG's first dual-format player, and it looked like it might assuage early adopters fears about getting into the market. Certainly, the new players, which support even more features of both formats, are welcome. However, with the software schism, prospects for success for either format have gotten much worse. The only way a HD disc format could succeed is if it brought new experiences to consumers along with overwhelming industry support.
With some content available only on one format and some on another, consumers are understandably gun-shy. So industry support is certainly far from overwhelming. But a more fundamental problem is why anyone beyond videophiles should care about either HD-DVD or Blu-ray.
(For a videophile, higher resolution is reason enough to embrace a new format. I've bought and re-bought DVDs several times just to get versions enhanced for 16x9 TVs and better transfers. I am decidely NOT normal. The problem is, there aren't enough videophiles out there to make a mass market. Normal people need clear reasons to move to something new, and upsampled DVDs look pretty good.)
The last transition brought a lot more than just better looking video. The move from VHS to DVD brought:
noticeably better video on even the least expensive displays - VHS is downright fuzzy
slightly improved sound with even a basic setup, greatly improved sound when combined with an inexpensive 6 speaker Dolby Digital HTIB setup, and excellent sound with better equipment/room setup
longer lasting physical media
smaller physical media and packaging
a complete shift in industry pricing practices from business rental (where VHS movies cost $75 - $150) to consumer purchase (where DVDs started out at $20 - $30 and quickly dropped to $8 - $20)
no rewinding
random track access
extras such as director's commentaries, deleted scenes, and related video material
multiple language tracks and subtitles
The move from DVD to either HD format is basically the DVD experience, plus:
improved video; this ranges from obvious improvement over upsampled DVD to none at all depending on the content, the display, and the setup/environment.
the potential for a further improved audio experience; right now this potential is limited to high end systems and is further limited by available content, hardware selection, and setup
the potential for interactivity, however, I have yet to see a compelling use of this technology. Keep in mind that DVD offered it's own promising features that never amounted to much - remember "multi-angle?"
higher priced content
I made these points back when the formats were first announced, but it's worth repeating now. Neither format offers average consumers enough to get excited about. If the PS3, which includes a good Blu-ray player as part of the package, had been a smash hit AND content providers all lined up to support the format, it might have had a shot at replacing DVD by default. But the PS3 has struggled out of the gate and is getting trounced by Nintendo's Wii, which cannot play movies at all. Wal~Mart will be offering inexpensive HD-DVD players this Christmas, but if the content question is still in doubt (and titles are more expensive than DVDs), free players would not make much of a difference.
Consumers are moving to random access media. A strong case could be made for a new format that brought HD video resolution to a media server where it could be queued up at will from a visual menu, seamlessly distributed around the house, moved to portable/phone/car -based systems, and sliced and diced for instant access to greatest hits scenes (like a typical spliced-together YouTube video). This would be a significant improvement for consumers who today must load individual discs from racks of DVDs or download movies from iTunes to watch on a single PC or iPod touch. Of course, content owners won't let this happen -- they can't even get out of their own way with HD DVD/Blu-ray. But if Hollywood doesn't create and monetize a system like this themselves, consumers will eventually piece something like it together on their own with pirated/downloaded content and/or content ripped from DVDs. Sure, the video quality won't be as good, but video quality alone isn't enough to get consumers move to a new format - or keep them from moving to different format, either.
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I agree that going from vhs to dvd was a huge jump and dvd to hd dvd is a smaller jump however in my personal opinion there are more people out there than you think that want higher quality video ie going from 480p to 1080p is a big jump and that consumers put more emphasis on video quality and they really don't care about audio quality. Audio is about convenience and video is about quality.
Home theater hobbyists want high quality video and they have the displays in their homes, it's the format war that's slowing it down. If it were one format and it cost 199 they would sell like crazy. I believe hd dvd is a bigger leap than you think with consumers.
Posted by: Alan Hutchinson | September 13, 2007 at 11:27 AM
Oh, how I wish I could agree with you, but... you're wrong. I've discussed in the past surveys that showed 50% of HDTV owners don't have an HDTV source, and that 25% of HDTV owners think that they're watching HDTV when they actually just have standard definition. In other words, 25% of people who bought an HDTV and are watching DVDs or standard cable feeds think that's so good that it's already HD (http://hometheaterview.typepad.com/hometheaterview/2007/02/50_of_hdtv_owne.html). Also, I can't tell you how many HD sets I've seen where the aspect ratio is completely wrong and the homeowner *never noticed*.
I do belive that the addressable videophile market is larger today than the laserdisc market was back in the early 1990's - home theater as a hobby has grown, it's far more accessible from a products/packaging/budget standpoint, and some women have been drawn into the fold, too (not nearly enough, but that's the subject of a different column). But I can't agree with your statement that, "audio is about convenience, and video is about quality." For most consumers, audio is about convenience and video is about... some other version of convenience (a big picture, a flat panel that doesn't overpower my living room). The promise of a better picture definitely plays into it as well, but even without a format war, a high def disc format would have a tough time displacing DVD.
Posted by: Avi Greengart | September 20, 2007 at 10:48 PM
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Recruiting's Evolution
What will the next 10 years bring to the recruiting and talent-acquisition function?
This article originally appeared on HRE Online May 12, 2017
by Andrew R. McIlvaine
Over the past 30 years, few parts of HR have changed more dramatically, or been more affected by technology, than recruiting. But now many experts believe a turning point is at hand.
Today the U.S. recruitment and talent-acquisition market is worth an estimated $240 billion, according to Bersin by Deloitte. Two enormous, multibillion-dollar companies that didn't even exist 15 years ago -- LinkedIn and Indeed -- dominate the market, while hundreds of much smaller vendors offer services ranging from online assessments to employer branding. Most of these vendors deliver their services via the Internet.
However, despite technology's impact, the recruiting function at many organizations still leaves much to be desired. High turnover rates and low employee engagement plague too many companies, and the talent-acquisition function shoulders a chunk of the blame due to poor sourcing and screening methods, say experts.
In fact, technology has been both a blessing and a curse to recruiters: A poor candidate experience can now be shared virally, tarnishing a company's brand and making it much harder to attract quality recruits. Meanwhile, the rise of artificial intelligence means that tasks performed by recruiters today soon will be automated at many organizations.
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HomeBusinessBurger King India shares surge, a day after the stellar market debut
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Burger King India shares surge, a day after the stellar market debut
Shares of Burger King India had zoomed nearly 131% in the previous session against its issue price of ₹60.
Burger King shares surged 16% today to ₹160, a day after more than doubling in price on the listing day. In a remarkable market debut, shares of Burger King India on Monday zoomed nearly 131% against its issue price of ₹60. After today's rise, Burger King shares are up about 166% as compared to its issue price. The market cap of Burger India has now zoomed to nearly ₹5,900 crore.
Burger King's market debut on Monday was best since 2017 when Astron Paper & Board Mill Ltd. jumped 142%.
With restaurants open for business post-lockdown and vaccines in sight, investors are betting that customers will soon be thronging fast food chains. Burger King India's share sale was subscribed a massive 156.65 times earlier this month. The price range for the ₹810-crore initial public offering (IPO) was fixed at ₹59-60 per share.
The quick-service restaurant chain currently operates 268 stores in India and out of them, eight are franchises, mainly located at airports, while the rest is owned by the company.
The company's franchisee agreement with Restaurant Brands International Inc. allows it to use the Burger King brand in India until 2039.
The 4%-5% royalty paid to Burger King is lower than the range paid by franchisees of most comparable quick-service restaurants in India, according to the company's prospectus
Meanwhile, the IPO of bread and biscuits maker Mrs Bectors Food will open today. The price band in Mrs Bectors Food IPO has been fixed at ₹286-288 per equity share of a face value of ₹10 each. The company sells biscuits under the 'Cremica' brand and manufactures and markets a wide range of biscuits such as cookies, creams, crackers, digestive biscuits, and an array of premium breads under the 'English oven' brand.
Mrs Bectors Food is also a supplier of buns to quick-service restaurant (QSR) chains such as McDonald's, KFC, Burger King and Carl's Jr among others.
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Stopping a Dangerous Article V Convention
The only way to defend our values against this threat is if ordinary people like us step up to make a difference. Join the fight today.
Scholars Invite Mark Meckler to Debate a Constitutional Convention
A public debate is slated for Thursday, February 6, 2020 at 5 pm MST in the Lincoln Room of the Idaho Legislature. This forum will offer both sides the opportunity to discuss the merits of the proposed Article V Constitutional Convention, or Convention of States, now being pushed through legislatures across the country.
A constitutional convention could put all our rights at risk. With no rules or guidelines laid out in Article V of the Constitution, there are no ground rules for how a convention would play out and no one knows what this would look like because it has been 240 years since it was last deployed – and that ended up drafting the Articles of Confederation into what we now know as the Constitution of the United States.
Guard the Constitution founder Shawn Meehan and constitutional scholar Robert Brown will be discussing the Article V convention option in the U.S. Constitution and they hoped to be joined by Convention of States' Mark Meckler.
In an interview with The Record-Courier, Meehan said of Meckler, "His campaign of misinformation has graduated to accusing opponents of being liars. As those opponents, we felt it time for us to exercise our moral right to insist Mr. Meckler show up and defend his accusations."
Brown adds, "When Mark Meckler elevated his roadshow to amend the Constitution into slandering opponents, Shawn and I agreed, we had to directly engage. Will Meckler who up with evidence to back his attacks, or will his absence reveal the truth?"
Guard the Constitution confirmed that it's invitations to Convention of States national and Idaho offices were delivered January 6th and 7th respectively.
Article V proponents, such as Meckler, argue that a national convention (which they call a Convention of States) is needed to propose amendments to the Constitution to make sure the federal government follows the Constitution. But Meehan disagrees and says, "Honest students of our Constitution know that the Founders never said to amend it to enforce it, so it is time to provide Mr. Meckler a simple way to present information in an attempt to prove his accusations. We look forward to Mr. Meckler changing his history of ducking debates after throwing accusations by showing up to support his comments."
"We have yet to receive a response," Meehan said. "Should COS fail to participate, the debate will become an interactive class. Robert tested a system which moved his congressman from a 50 percent to 90 percent constitutional voting record in six months. We look forward to seeing our fellow Americans in Boise and via the live internet stream as we show them proof of what the Founders really said about guarding the Constitution."
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Convention of States "Reopen America" Ploy
"I don't think it's helpful to encourage demonstrations and encourage people to go against the president's own policy," Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, a Republican, said. "It just doesn't make any sense." And yet, that is what is happening around the country as Facebook groups and special interest lobbying organizations are engineering protests at capitols around the nation for states continuing stay-at-home orders as […]
Article V Proponent Mark Meckler Takes Over as Right-Wing Media CEO
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The Dangers of DNA Testing
In a new study, 74 out of 108 crime laboratories implicated an innocent person in a hypothetical bank robbery.
By Greg Hampikian
Dr. Hampikian is a professor of biology at Boise State University.
Police evidence bag containing DNA swabs.Tek Image/Science Photo Library, via Getty Images
Before you give the police a DNA sample, read an alarming new study of crime laboratories published this summer, the largest study of its kind.
Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology gave the same DNA mixture to about 105 American crime laboratories and three Canadian labs and asked them to compare it with DNA from three suspects from a mock bank robbery.
The first two suspects' DNA was part of the mixture, and most labs correctly matched their DNA to the evidence. However, 74 labs wrongly said the sample included DNA evidence from the third suspect, an "innocent person" who should have been cleared of the hypothetical felony.
The test results are troubling, especially since errors also occur in actual casework. Just ask Dwayne Jackson of Las Vegas.
When he was 18, he was told that his DNA matched DNA from a home invasion and kidnapping of a woman and her two daughters. He was advised that a jury would most likely believe the DNA, not him. Facing a life sentence at trial, he pleaded guilty to reduced charges in 2003.
Mr. Jackson spent nearly four years in a Nevada prison, until the crime lab realized it had accidentally switched his sample with another suspect's tube. The lab apologized, and he was released from prison.
Linda Krueger, executive director of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Criminalistics Bureau, at a news conference in 2011 where police officials apologized for a DNA error that wrongly sent Dwayne Jackson to prison for four years.Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun, via Associated Press
Tube swaps are easy to understand. But some laboratory errors are far more difficult to detect. For example, it's hard to interpret DNA mixtures from three or more people. As DNA testing has become more sensitive, most laboratories are now able to produce profiles from anyone who may have lightly touched an object. The result is that DNA mixtures have become more common, making up about 15 percent of all evidence samples.
To assess how labs are doing with these mixtures, the institute's researchers have conducted several national studies over the past two decades. Basically, they gave crime labs DNA from several people, as well as DNA from fake crime scenes. They asked the labs if any suspects matched the evidence. If the labs found a match, they were required to report a match statistic. This statistic indicates the odds that the match is a coincidental or innocent match.
One shocking result from the new N.I.S.T. study is that labs analyzing the same evidence calculated vastly different statistics. Among the 108 crime labs in the study, the match statistics varied over 100 trillion-fold. That's like the difference between soda change and the United States' gross domestic product. These statistics are important because they are used by juries to consider whether a DNA match is just coincidence.
I first learned about the results of this study in 2014, at a talk by one of its authors. It was clear that crime labs were making mistakes, and I expected the results to be published quickly. Peer-reviewed publication is important, because most judges won't let you cite someone's PowerPoint slide in your testimony.
But years went by before the study was published, preventing lawyers from using the findings in court, and academics from citing the results in journal articles. If some of us had not complained publicly, it may not ever have been published.
While this lapse in publication is troubling, more disturbing is that the authors try to mute the impact of their own excellent work. Neither the paper's title nor the abstract mention the shocking findings. And the paper contains an amazing number of disclaimers.
In fact, the conclusion begins with a stark disclaimer apparently intended to block courtroom use:
The results described in this article provide only a brief snapshot of DNA mixture interpretation as practiced by participating laboratories in 2005 and 2013. Any overall performance assessment is limited to participating laboratories addressing specific questions with provided data based on their knowledge at the time. Given the adversarial nature of the legal system, and the possibility that some might attempt to misuse this article in legal arguments, we wish to emphasize that variation observed in DNA mixture interpretation cannot support any broad claims about "poor performance" across all laboratories involving all DNA mixtures examined in the past.
People serving time behind bars based on shoddy DNA methods may disagree. It is uncomfortable to read the study's authors praising labs for their careful work when they get things right, but offering sophomoric excuses for them when they get things wrong. Scientists in crime labs need clear feedback to change entrenched, error-prone methods, and they should be strongly encouraged to re-examine old cases where such methods were used.
The good news is that there are methods to reanalyze old DNA mixture data using computer programs that can help analysts correct errors, without any new lab testing. In fact, one lesson from the study is that while only seven of the 108 labs in the study properly excluded the innocent profile, one of them used such a program (TrueAllele by Cybergenetics). Many crime labs now have access to these programs and use them on current cases. But they could and should easily go back and re-examine old DNA mixtures to correct tragic mistakes.
In fact, we have shown that this is possible. Working with Cybergenetics analysts and Innocence Network organizations in four states, our Boise State University laboratory has re-examined a few select cases and already persuaded courts to overturn a conviction in New Mexico, two in Indiana and two in Montana. We have also helped identify a new suspect in a 23-year-old murder.
While we have to go to court to get access to case data (a very time-consuming process), the crime labs don't. They could easily review their own cases. With tens of thousands of DNA mixtures analyzed each year, there are many innocent people who hope the crime labs and courts take the national institute's study seriously, and act quickly.
Greg Hampikian is a professor of biology at Boise State University and a co-author of "Exit to Freedom."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/opinion/the-dangers-of-dna-testing.html
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Mary Lillian Duke Biddle was born on November 16, 1887, in Durham, N.C., the only daughter of Benjamin Newton Duke and Sarah Pearson Angier Duke. She attended public schools in Durham and in 1907 graduated from Trinity College,later named Duke University in honor of her grandfather, Washington Duke. Mrs. Biddle developed an appreciation for the importance of philanthropy from her father, who was the guiding hand behind many of the Duke family's charitable activities. Duke University, in particular, flourished in its early days thanks to the financial backing of her grandfather, father, and uncle James B. Duke, who were successful entrepreneurs as well as philanthropists.
She took an active part in the civic and social life of Durham until her marriage in 1915 to Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr., after which she lived in New York City and Irvington-on-Hudson, NY. The couple had two children, daughter Mary and son Nicholas. Divorced in 1931, Mrs. Biddle and her children moved back to Durham for part of each year beginning in 1936. As she spent more time in Durham, her family and civic connections deepened. Her commitment to Duke University, her community, and North Carolina grew more meaningful.
In September 1956, she established The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation. She focused the foundation's grantmaking in North Carolina and New York, in recognition of their significance to her and her family. She singled out three churches, in Durham, New York City, and Irvington, NY as institutions important to her. Mrs. Biddle also directed that at least one-half of the foundation's grants be made to Duke University. Mrs. Biddle otherwise gave the foundation's Board of Trustees broad discretion in determining how best to accomplish her objectives.


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The spread of political unrest in countries across the world has prompted fears about the growth of political violence in democratic societies.
There is a theory that political violence is the sort of thing a democracy is supposed to prevent and if it occurs it will be remedied by the exercise of voting, the protection of individual rights by the courts or by civil disobedience.
The examples of Jamaica and the US dispel this proposition.
Since the 1980's there has been a long-standing feud between right-wing and left-wing elements often escalating into violence. The violence has now morphed into economic crimes fueled by the drug trade in south Florida.
Successive governments have used states of emergency to combat surges in crime because, according to National Security Minister Dr. Horace Chang, unless Jamaica becomes a police state, states of emergency are necessary. A police state is one in which excess power is exercised through the power of the police force.
Democracy is still intact but the costs have been high. Jamaica was listed in a recent report as having the highest rate of homicides (including killings by the police) in the Americas and the Caribbean http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20210131/jamaica-tops-homicides-latin-america-and-caribbean.
The summer of 2020 saw protests and sporadic violence in a number of American cities following the killings by police of African Americans George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
Some people including many who are now protesting in the streets argue that American policing is incompatible with democratic ideals.
The new president Joe Biden was installed in a celebration surrounded by a sea of barbed wire and 26,000 heavily armed soldiers. Military soldiers parade the streets as police officers, SWAT teams execute nightly no-knock warrants (particularly in communities of color) while people from these communities are disproportionately absorbed by the world's largest prison system.
To stop the exacerbation of Trumpism we have seen internet censorship and regulations on the media and some on the left even recommend new dramatic terror laws and even policies to deprogram the minds of Trump supporters.
It remains to be seen if the 2020 demonstrations will resolve the long-standing issues of racial injustice or escalate into a civil war. Two factors indicate that the trend favors the former:-
First, today's protesters are more interracial than those of the past comprising African Americans, Latins and Whites as the police target all races with rubber bullets and tear gas.
Secondly, the geography of the violence is different today as wealthy downtown malls and global chains are under attack and not just low income neighborhoods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re8jUhGOZu4.
Armed militias, censorship and acts of police brutality carry associated costs such as loss of life, damage to property and accelerate additional violence. To mitigate these costs politicians are tempted to invoke emergency powers but these are necessarily short-term solutions. What is needed are more investments targeted towards communities that promote democracy and build community resilience.
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Q: I am trying to merge to integer strings but Dr. Java the program I am using won't let me use ArrayUtils? In this lab, you will be creating a program that merges two arrays of non-negative (equal to or greater than 0) integers. Your program will accept each array as input from the keyboard. You do not know ahead of time how many values will be entered, but you can assume each array will have a maximum length of 10,000 elements. To stop entering values enter a negative number. You may disregard any negative numbers input and not store these in the array.
The elements of the two input arrays should be in increasing order. In other words, each array element must have a value that is greater than or equal to the previous element value. An array may contain repeated elements.
After the two arrays have been input, your program must check to make sure the elements of each array have been entered in order. If an out of order element is found, print the message "ERROR: Array not in correct order".
Your task is to merge the two input arrays into a new array, with all elements in order, lowest to highest. Print out each of the original arrays entered, followed by the merged array.
Please note that your program must output the arrays with exactly one space between each of the numbers.
Sample Run 1:
Enter the values for the first array, up to 10000 values, enter a negative number to quit

3
3
5
6
8
9
-1

Enter the values for the second array, up to 10000 values, enter a negative number to quit

3
4
5
6
-5

First Array:
3 3 5 6 8 9

Second Array:
3 4 5 6

Merged Array:
3 3 3 4 5 5 6 6 8 9

Sample Run 2:
Enter the values for the first array, up to 10000 values, enter a negative number to quit

4
5
7
2
-1

Enter the values for the second array, up to 10000 values, enter a negative number to quit

3
3
3
3
3
3
-100

First Array:
4 5 7 2

Second Array:
3 3 3 3 3 3

ERROR: Array not in correct order
import java.io.*;
import static java.lang.System.*;

import java.util.Scanner;
import java.lang.Math;
import java.lang.Object;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import org.apache.commons.lang3.ArrayUtils;

class Main
{

 public static void main (String str[]) throws IOException {
    {
        Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);

        int[] arrayone = new int[10000];
        int[] arraytwo = new int[10000];
        int [] mergeQ = new int[arrayone.length + arraytwo.length];
        int integers = 0;
        int inte = 0;

        System.out.println("\nEnter the values for the first array, up to 10000 values, enter a negative number to quit");

         for (int i = 0; i < arrayone.length; i++)
        {
            arrayone[i] = scan.nextInt();
            if (arrayone[i] < 0){
              break;
            } else {integers ++;}
        }

        System.out.println("\nEnter the values for the second array, up to 10000 values, enter a negative number to quit");
        for (int i=0; i<arraytwo.length; i++)
        {
            arraytwo[i] = scan.nextInt();

            if (arraytwo[i] < 0)
            {
                break;
            } {inte ++;}
        }

        System.out.println("First Array:");
        for (int i=0; i< integers; i++)
        {
          System.out.print(arrayone[i] + " ");
        }

        System.out.println("\nSecond Array:");
        for (int i=0; i< inte; i++)
        {
            System.out.print(arraytwo[i] + " ");
        }

      System.out.println("\nMerged Array:");{

        String[] both = ArrayUtils.addAll(arrayone[integer], arraytwo[inte]);
          Arrays.sort(both);

        }

        }
      }
    }

A: you were adding elements but not the arrays themselves.

In you second loop
}{ inte++; }

change this to
}else {inte ++;}

one solution could be
int[] both = ArrayUtils.addAll(Arrays.copyOf(arrayone, integers), Arrays.copyOf(arraytwo,inte));
Arrays.sort(both);
for (int i=0; i< both.length; i++){
      System.out.print(both[i] + " ");

A very bad way to do it.. but will work in your CS class
for (int i=0; i< integers; i++){
   mergeQ[i] = arrayone[i];
}
for (int i=integers; i< inte + integers; i++){
   mergeQ[i] = arraytwo[i - integers];
}
int both[] = Arrays.copyOf(mergeQ,integers+inte);
Arrays.sort(both);
for (int i=0; i< both.length; i++){
    System.out.print(both[i] + " ");
}

Note: this way is pretty evil.. memory inefficient.. etc..
Here is another way it is a bit cleaner but roughly has the same performance as the one above..
System.arraycopy(arrayone, 0, mergeQ, 0, integers);
System.arraycopy(arraytwo, 0, mergeQ, integers, inte);
int both[] = Arrays.copyOf(mergeQ,integers+inte);
Arrays.sort(both);
for (int i=0; i< both.length; i++){
    System.out.print(both[i] + " ");
}

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