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Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga and Others Support Florida Students' March For Our Lives
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There seems to be a light of hope following the unfortunate tragedy of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida on Feb. 14. The mass murder left 17 students and teachers dead and injured 14 others, and now the students have become a source of inspiration on their next steps in the aftermath.
The young survivors have planned two events—the National School Walkout on March 14 and the March for Our Lives on March 24—where they will use their voices to put a spotlight on this country's dangerous and racially biased gun laws. It has been long overdue for a change, and these students will ensure it will finally happen. "We're marching because it's not just schools. It's movie theaters, it's concerts, it's nightclubs. This kind of stuff can't just happen," Alex Wind, one of the shooting's survivors told NBC's Meet The Press. "You know, we are marching for our lives, we're marching for the 17 lives we lost. And we're marching for our children's lives and our children's children and their children."
The two events serve as a call to action for Congress to act effectively on gun violence and reevaluate their laws. Celebrities, citizen of Parkland and fellow activists have all come together to support the students' causes, which will of course give their plight a well-deserved and larger platform. Justin Bieber, Hayley Williams, Lady Gaga, Zendaya and others all shared information about the march on Twitter. "Cameron good talking to you last night. All of your bravery is amazing. I stand with you guys," Bieber tweeted while referencing student Cameron Kasky. George and Amal Clooney have also donated $500,000 to the cause.
"Amal and I are so inspired by the courage and eloquence of these young men and women from Stoneman Douglas High School," Clooney said in a statement. "Our family will be there on March 24 to stand side by side with this incredible generation of young people from all over the country, and in the name of our children Ella and Alexander, we're donating 500,000 dollars to help pay for this groundbreaking event. Our children's lives depend on it."
Cameron good talking to you last night. All of your bravery is amazing. I stand with you guys. #march24 #marchforourlives https://t.co/oKG8MmhzaI
— Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) February 18, 2018
Cameron we heard your call... On March 24, we march. If the kids can do it so can the adults. This isn't about citizens...80 percent of this nation wants gun control. This about congress honoring its citizens and its KIDS! March 24 we march!! #MarchForOurLives pic.twitter.com/lgX94S2nhj
— Scooter Braun (@scooterbraun) February 18, 2018
Parkland Survivors and others that are standing up through the media are so brave and are true role models. I'm speechless at their courage. And so proud that these kids and young adults are our future. #GunControl #ParklandStudents The question now is will our leaders listen.
— Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) February 19, 2018
On March 24, students are leading marches in DC & across the country to demand that lawmakers do their jobs and take action to prevent gun violence. Get involved: https://t.co/s57UYt3xRO#MarchForOurLives @Everytown
— Amy Schumer (@amyschumer) February 18, 2018
These Florida teenagers speaking truth to power are giving me all the hope right now.
— St. Vincent (@st_vincent) February 18, 2018
Powerful. Empowered. A leader. https://t.co/x8ZcParAZn
— Yara shahidi (@YaraShahidi) February 18, 2018
YESSSSS EMMA GONZALEZ!!!!!!! Thank you for your voice, and for your bravery and honesty while using it✊🏽 https://t.co/7y7Su02uSz
— Zendaya (@Zendaya) February 17, 2018
Believe Young Women &
Men From Parkland Shooting Can Make Difference‼
Changing Awareness Is IMPORTANT,But IF YOUNG PPL "VOTE"THEY WILL SCARE CONGRESS IN2 ACTING‼"
LOSING THEIR"JOBS"IS WHAT CONG.FEARS MOST‼"SHOOTINGS"CAN HAPPEN IN"ANY"SCHOOL.KIDS CAN BE CATALYSTS 4 CHANGE
— Cher (@cher) February 19, 2018
Children acting like leaders, while our leader acts like a child. https://t.co/zAZKDjKjGL
— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) February 18, 2018
These young survivors of the Parkland shooting give voice to a nation's outrage @CNN https://t.co/0Jwoi6gu1W
— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) February 18, 2018
Nikolas Cruz, the perpetrator behind the shooting, has been charged with killing 17 students and teachers with an AR-15 rifle. No 19-year-old should have the possession of that kind of a weapon, which has now led to this country's 18th incident where shots were fired inside or outside of a school or university building this year with three categorized as mass shootings. After the March of our Lives takes place next month, let's hope these government officials finally use their power to protect the U.S.
Below, watch Lady Gaga discuss being an "artist of liberation" in this classic Fuse interview:
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#Enough
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Katy Perry Surprising Thomas Fire & Mudslide Survivors at Benefit Concert Was an Awesome Act of Kindness
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Temple of Silence: Forgotten Works & Worlds of Herbert Crowley
Contained in this tome you'll find hundreds of jaw-dropping images of otherworldly shrines, whimsical cartoons, grotesque creatures, nightmares and dreamscapes. You will encounter impossible symbolism, encrypted glyphs, and the yearning visual poetry of a brilliant, tormented spirit. Enter THE TEMPLE OF SILENCE, and behold the strange, astonishing visions of a lost legend of modern art. Prior to his disappearance, Herbert Crowley was an innovator at the dawn of comics, and a defining figure of the early 20th century avant-garde. His illustrations were featured alongside work by Picasso, Matisse and Van Gogh in the 1913 Armory Show that gave birth to modern art in America. His newspaper strip THE WIGGLEMUCH was printed next to Winsor McCay's LITTLE NEMO IN SLUMBERLAND in the New York Herald. He had a close relationship with Carl Jung, and was a noted mainstay of the burgeoning NYC experimental art scene. And yet he's been completely erased from history. Aside from a very small selection of his comics, none of his artwork has been published or collected in any form. Until now. Over the course of six years of deep research, we have unearthed a huge number of Crowley paintings, sculptures, illustrations, comics, prints, engravings and ephemera. Contained in this tome you'll find hundreds of jaw-dropping images of otherworldly shrines, whimsical cartoons, grotesque creatures,nightmares and dreamscapes. You will encounter impossible symbolism, encrypted glyphs, and the yearning visual poetry of a brilliant, tormented spirit. Enter THE TEMPLE OF SILENCE, and behold the strange, astonishing visions of a lost legend of modern art.
Authors: Justin Duerr and Josh O'Neill
Publisher: Beehive Books, 2019
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250 color illustrations
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Is Destiny a matter of choice or a matter of chance?
Prosperity and positive thinkers believe that the engergy of thought and the power of words impact our lives making destiny a matter of choice. What do you believe?
I believe that destiny is a matter of choice. You set up your goals and grow towards fullfilling them by either following (A) patterns, (B)advice, or (C) dreams.
THOUGHT IS EVERYTHING and then speaking your desires brings your thoughts into manifestation. Therefore, our destiny, our prosperity and our condition is whatever we think them to be. If we walk (i.e. think positive) by faith and not by sight, and have faith (i.e. the mustard seed thing) then we can have and achieve whatever we have the faith (that includes our thoughts) to embrace. THE LAW DICTATES to conceive (your thoughts), believe (your faith), RECEIVE (manifestation).


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Home > Browse by Country > Kids Days Out England > East of England Kids Days Out > Kids Days Out Bedfordshire > Leighton Buzzard Railway
Leighton Buzzard Railway
Looking for: Childrens Activities, Transport
Address: Pages Park Station, Billington Rd,
Leighton Buzzard,
Postcode: LU7 4TN
Kids Activity: Outdoors
Page's Park station is the operational heart of the Leighton Buzzard Railway. Here you will find ample free parking for cars and coaches, and the booking office for you to buy tickets for your journey. The railway shop offers souvenirs of all kinds, and is famous for its range of Thomas The Tank Engine merchandise.
The Leighton Buzzard Railway's locomotive fleet numbers more than 50 in total, one of the largest narrow-gauge collections in the United Kingdom. YThe Sandhills Junction buffet, fresh from its makeover during the winter, offers a wide selection of food, drinks and ice cream, and is the ideal place to relax in a friendly Italian-style atmosphere. It is open daily, whether trains are running or not, and is well worth visiting for its new railway-themed mural.
At the far end of the two-platform terminus station is the shed, which is the operating base of the locomotives and coaches that run the passenger service. A footpath leads from Platform 2 to the front of the shed, to allow viewing from close quarters.
Alongside the station is a large public park, with a children's play area, and sporting facilities.
Leaving Page's Park station, the line climbs sharply between the park and a former sand quarry, now redeveloped as yet another housing estate. The line then takes on the suburban character of the first part of the journey, running rather incongruously through a "green corridor" between modern housing.
The train stops at Stanbridge Road level crossing, to let off the flagmen to stop the traffic. Soon afterwards, it descends the 1:25 (4%) gradient of Marley's Bank, named after the tileworks which once stood alongside the line, and was supplied with sand by its trains. This is one of the steepest gradients used by passenger trains in Britain, and your engine will work hard on its return journey.


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Q: Updating claims using Federated Authentication in asp.net mvc I'm using the FederatedAuthentication class in my MVC project.
To create the cookie I use FederatedAuthentication.SessionAuthenticationModule.CreateSessionCookie(...);, but I can't seem to find a way to update them if the user wants to change for example their first name.
How can I access and update the claims without logging out?

A: The process is rather quite easy

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*Get the list of current claims of the ClaimsPrincipal

*Remove the claims you want to update

*Add new claims

*Authenticate like normal, passing the list of claims.
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          .ContextSessionSecurityToken.ClaimsPrincipal.Claims.ToList();
var givenNameClaim = claims.Single(x => x.Type == "given_name");
var familyNameClaim = claims.Single(x => x.Type == "family_name");
var timeZoneClaim = claims.Single(x => x.Type == "time_zone_string");
var newName = new Claim(givenNameClaim.Type.ToString(), model.FirstName, givenNameClaim.ValueType, givenNameClaim.Issuer);
var familyName = new Claim(familyNameClaim.Type.ToString(), model.LastName, familyNameClaim.ValueType, familyNameClaim.Issuer);
var timeZone = new Claim(timeZoneClaim.Type.ToString(), model.SelectedTimeZone, timeZoneClaim.ValueType, timeZoneClaim.Issuer);
UpdateClaims(newName, familyName, timeZone);

    public void UpdateClaims(params Claim[] updatedClaims)
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    var currentClaims = FederatedAuthentication.SessionAuthenticationModule.ContextSessionSecurityToken.ClaimsPrincipal.Claims.ToList();
    foreach (var claim in updatedClaims)
    {
        currentClaims.Remove(currentClaims.Single(x => x.Type == claim.Type));
        currentClaims.Add(claim);
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    var principal = new ClaimsPrincipal(new ClaimsIdentity[] { new ClaimsIdentity(currentClaims, "Auth0") });
    var session = FederatedAuthentication.SessionAuthenticationModule.CreateSessionSecurityToken(
        principal,
        null,
        DateTime.UtcNow,
        DateTime.MaxValue.ToUniversalTime(),
        true);
    FederatedAuthentication.SessionAuthenticationModule.AuthenticateSessionSecurityToken(session, true);
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Are they medical doctors or murderers?
Perhaps a 300-Level Biochemistry student, identified as John, would not have died if the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) is not on strike. John was allegedly poisoned by a friend at an off-campus hostel. He returned to his hostel in pains, vomiting blood. Immediately, he was rushed to the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH). On getting there, there was no medical personnel to attend to the dying student. Doctors were on strike, the symphathisers were told. No first aid was administered on him. The poor John was left to writhe in pain.
He was then taken to the university Health Centre. Unfortunately, he gave up the ghost on the way. What a way not to die! What is the meaning of wickedness? How else can the brutality of mankind be felt?
Just because of pride and administrative recklessness, innocent lives are being lost. The President is fighting tooth and nail to end terrorism and Ebola. Now, NMA is pursing another agenda.
It was in grief that I wrote this piece about the ongoing doctors' strike. If I had not lost a colleague, maybe I would not have given this article a thought.
A philosopher had once advocated death for all men as solution to the mischief they have caused to the world. In his time, corruption was a norm and a way of life. In his own reasoning, he prescribed death as the solution to the trouble he faced.
But it was evident that his solution was synonymous to the cynical attitude of the ostrich who buries his head below the sand in the site of trouble, while its other parts were exposed. This is the part that our Nigerian medical doctors have chosen to plough. The moment they really need their head to think, it is buried!
Doctors, who swore to the Hippocratic Oath to save lives, are the ones snuffing life out of the people through their self-serving strike. Just at the time the nation needs them the most, the doctors turn their back. Threatened by terrorism and the gruesome Ebola, the medical doctors are sitting in their houses while scores are dying. This is exactly what an illiterate man would do and will be termed a murderer. The so-called elite doctors, under the guise of NMA, are doing the same thing, with full immunity. They are well exercising their right to murder!
Since when did the NMA start passing by-laws for para-medical profession, such as Pharmacist Council of Nigeria (PCN) and other health workers association? Are these professions under the NMA? When will these doctors know that lives are more important than any other thing?
They've shown gross irresponsibility, fatuous ferocity and crass insolence. Leaving your responsibility as a life saver, all in the guise of helping the patient, you are now sentencing them to their early grave. Has it ever been told where the police force go on industrial action? No matter how corrupt a police force could be, their importance can never be downplayed. They are 'essential workers'. They know their place.
They said pharmacists should not be called doctors. A pharmacist who graduated with a Bachelor in Pharmacy (Pham B) is not called a doctor, but those with a Pham D would be tagged doctors. They argued that Pham D would bring confusion to the hospital chain of command. Why have we not heard about the confusion in developed countries of the world were Pharm D certificates are also issued? This is nothing but a mere figment of their lustful imagination, driving them to a catastrophic, embarrassing and disappointing end.
Who are mostly affected by these actions? The poor. This is simply because most rich people have their personal doctors and can also afford the exorbitant fees of private hospitals owned by these same doctors who are on strike!
I began to ask myself whether our doctors are truly protectors of life as they claim, or merchants of death. I began to ask myself whether this group is humane or just a bunch of greedy wolves in sheep clothing. It's really disheartening to know that the health and lives of the poor have been sold on the platform of individualism and overblown ego.
Indeed, strikes are anti-medical profession; this is because the ultimate job of the doctor is to care for the sick and save lives, even in its tiniest form. I have painstakingly read the grievances the doctors tendered for the recent strike. They are not just selfish, but a sign of myopic thinking. Let it be known that whatever you have sown, that you shall reap.


We all love our water softeners, they keep our clothes, hair, and skin looking great and healthy! If you are a lucky water softener owner or in the market for one, water softener maintenance 101 is for you. Water softeners, of all appliances, are easy to maintain with just a few simple steps. These steps will keep your water softener working efficiently and last you longer.
A few common causes of bridging include high humidity, temperature changes around the water softener or even using the wrong kind of salt. A sign you may have a salt bridge, your water softener is full but your water is not soft. Take a broom handle and push on top of the salt and break up the solidified salt, this is a quick easy trick. Salt mushing is more serious and this can happen when dissolved salt recrystallizes and forms a sludge on the bottom of the brine tank. This creates a blockage in the tank because it is not properly cycling through the regeneration process. If you test with the broom for a salt bridge and it doesn't break up, salt mushing is more likely the cause. The only solution is to drain the softener and dig out all the old salt and replace with fresh.
Rock salt is least expensive but contains higher levels of insoluble minerals. This can decrease the softening efficiency and leave impurities in your water.
Solar salt is more soluble than rock salt, it is obtained by the evaporation of seawater and found in both pellet and crystal form.
Evaporated salt is the best option, it is a combination of mining and evaporation. This is the purest form of salt, 99.99% Sodium Chloride! Looking for higher purity salts will leave your storage tank with less residue. Less residue will obviously result in less maintenance.
Using a water softener cleaner, it is a good idea to flush the resin bed every few months. A water softener can become polluted with metals and other compounds which causes it to lose efficiency. You simply pour the recommended amount of water softener cleaner down the brine well and regenerate the system manually. This keeps the resin clean and able to absorb mineral build-up.
The venturi and nozzle create the suction to move brine from the brine tank into the resin tank during the regeneration cycle. The venturi valve at times gets plugged with sediment and dirt and needs to be cleaned. No special tools are required to clean the valve, simply unscrew valve cover and clean the internal parts. This should be done at least twice a year to keep water softener running efficiently.
If you feel your water softener is not working properly don't hesitate to call out a plumber. When technician arrives, they will first test the system to see if it is producing any soft water. If your water softener is plumbed to outside faucets or plumbed in backwards it may need to be replumbed. You may run out of soft water due to watering yard, and you need to make sure outside faucets are not on soft. Plumber can inform you the steps to take to bypass unit when running outside water. Here at Carter's My Plumber, we are happy to help by sending a licensed plumber to your home. Give us a call at 317-859-9999 or email us at www.cartersmyplumber.com We know how important your softener is to not only you but your plumbing system as well!! Our plumbing work comes with courtesy, respect, and a smile.


And to help you plan for Polo-palooza, we've rounded up the best events in one handy-dandy guide. Read on.
What: Kick off the Beach Polo World Cup 2018 with a welcoming cocktail party where you can mingle with celebrities, VIPs and the players themselves.
First game is at noon.
Second game is at 1:30 p.m.
Third game is at 3 p.m.
When: after the final match until 8 p.m.
When: 11 p.m. – 5 a.m.
First game is at 11:30 a.m.
Second game is a 1 p.m.
Women's Polo Cup is at 2:30 p.m.
Third game is a 3:15 p.m.
When: midnight – 5 a.m.
Third and fourth place finals are at 11:30 a.m.
Consolidation Cup finals are at 1 p.m.
The charity game is at 2:30 p.m.
Finals are at 3:15 p.m.
Award presentation is at 4:30 p.m.


Read receipts are something that have been a part of the email ecosystem for a long time, and many people have strong feelings about them. Some people love using them so that they can know when a recipient has read an email they sent, while others hate them because they feel it isn't any of the sender's business whether or not they have read an email.
If you receive a lot of read receipt requests and never send them, then you might be looking for a way to stop having to worry about them. Our tutorial below will show you how to change a setting in Outlook.com so that you never send a response to a read receipt.
The steps in this article were performed in the desktop version of the Google Chrome Web browser, but will also work in other desktop browsers as well. By completing the steps in this guide you will be changing the behavior for your Outlook.com email account so that you automatically never send a response to any read receipts that you receive.
Step 1: Sign into your Outlook.com email account.
Step 2: Select the gear icon at the top-right of the window.
Step 3: Choose the View all Outlook settings option at the bottom of the menu on the right side of the window.
Step 4: Select the Message handling option in the center column of the menu.
Step 5: Click the Never send a response option under Read receipts, then click the Save button at the top-right of the menu to apply the change.
Are you having difficulty finding or viewing an email message because it was part of a multi-message conversation? This guide will show you how to get Outlook.com to stop combining your email messages into conversations.


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While it can be a long and difficult road to becoming a qualified architect, by the end it usually means a high-paying job and the chance to design buildings that will be used for many generations to come. Many might think that an architect is something of a general career, but it can actually be broken down into a number of career paths, each focused on various kinds of building design.
For those that are interested in pursuing a degree in architecture, these are some of the more popular career paths that will be made available after studies and internships are completed.
This is the kind of architect that focuses mainly on outdoor spaces, including public spaces, parks, gardens, and more. They need to be able to make these spaces both appealing to most people but also efficient and in line with the environment around it.
They design and plan the walkways around these spaces, and often work with gardeners and arborists to choose a selection of trees and plants to put in the ground. Many landscape architects will have a background in horticulture, meaning that they know exactly the kind of plants are suited for the climate that they are growing in.
A commercial architect is the person that designs the large buildings that we find in the big cities, such as skyscrapers or shopping malls. Designing a functioning and aesthetically pleasing commercial building is not the easiest task in the world, and it can take many years of experience and calculations before everything can begin.
The building will need to work with the overall flow of the surrounding area, especially when it comes to shopping malls, which need to be large enough to accommodate a vast range of shops, but not so large that they are impractical for visitors. On top of the design and implementation, an architect will also need to be keenly knowledgeable about building codes, the cost of construction, and any safety regulations that are in place within the city.
This is a fairly broad career path that can be decided by what kind of area the architect chooses to focus on. They might want to design buildings for upper class areas, which are often made up of much larger houses that are inhabited by the wealthy.
They could focus instead on building cheap but affordable houses for those lower and middle classes. Residential architects in areas like China and Japan, for example, are often set to task to build small habitation bubbles that allow a person to meet their basic needs while living in an extremely overcrowded city.
Lastly we have an interior designer, who is more concerned with the internals of a building rather than designing the building itself, making it a comfortable space for people to live, work, and enjoy hobbies such as playing games at https://onlinecasinophilippines.ph.
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Whole transcriptome amplification for gene expression profiling and development of molecular archives
Scott A. Tomlins, Rohit Mehra, Daniel R. Rhodes, Rajal B. Shah, Mark A. Rubin, Eric Bruening, Vladimir Makarov, Arul M. Chinnaiyan
Expression profiling of clinically obtainable tumor specimens has been hindered by the need for microgram quantities of RNA. In vitro transcription (IVT)-based amplifications are most commonly used to amplify small quantities of RNA for microarray analysis. However, significant drawbacks exist with IVT-based amplification, and the need for alternative amplification methods remains. Herein, we validate whole transcriptome amplification (WTA), an exponential amplification technique that produces cDNA libraries and amplified target in 3 to 4 hours from nanogram quantities of total RNA using a combination of cDNA microarrays and quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR). We demonstrate that WTA material can serve as a "molecular archive" because a WTA cDNA library can be faithfully amplified through multiple rounds of PCR amplification, allowing it to serve as a bankable and distributable resource. To demonstrate applicability, WTA was combined with laser capture microdissection to profile frozen prostate tissues. Unlike most IVT-based and exponential amplification techniques, WTA does not depend on the presence of a poly-A tail. Thus, we demonstrate that WTA is compatible with artificially degraded RNA and RNA isolated from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissues. Taken together, WTA represents a versatile approach to profile and archive cDNA from minute tumor samples and is compatible with partially degraded RNA.
https://doi.org/10.1593/neo.05754
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Dive into the research topics of 'Whole transcriptome amplification for gene expression profiling and development of molecular archives'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
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Transcriptome Medicine & Life Sciences 89%
RNA Medicine & Life Sciences 57%
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Laser Capture Microdissection Medicine & Life Sciences 19%
In Vitro Techniques Medicine & Life Sciences 18%
Polymerase Chain Reaction Medicine & Life Sciences 16%
Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis Medicine & Life Sciences 14%
Tomlins, S. A., Mehra, R., Rhodes, D. R., Shah, R. B., Rubin, M. A., Bruening, E., Makarov, V., & Chinnaiyan, A. M. (2006). Whole transcriptome amplification for gene expression profiling and development of molecular archives. Neoplasia, 8(2), 153-162. https://doi.org/10.1593/neo.05754
Whole transcriptome amplification for gene expression profiling and development of molecular archives. / Tomlins, Scott A.; Mehra, Rohit; Rhodes, Daniel R. et al.
In: Neoplasia, Vol. 8, No. 2, 02.2006, p. 153-162.
Tomlins, SA, Mehra, R, Rhodes, DR, Shah, RB, Rubin, MA, Bruening, E, Makarov, V & Chinnaiyan, AM 2006, 'Whole transcriptome amplification for gene expression profiling and development of molecular archives', Neoplasia, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 153-162. https://doi.org/10.1593/neo.05754
Tomlins SA, Mehra R, Rhodes DR, Shah RB, Rubin MA, Bruening E et al. Whole transcriptome amplification for gene expression profiling and development of molecular archives. Neoplasia. 2006 Feb;8(2):153-162. doi: 10.1593/neo.05754
Tomlins, Scott A. ; Mehra, Rohit ; Rhodes, Daniel R. et al. / Whole transcriptome amplification for gene expression profiling and development of molecular archives. In: Neoplasia. 2006 ; Vol. 8, No. 2. pp. 153-162.
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abstract = "Expression profiling of clinically obtainable tumor specimens has been hindered by the need for microgram quantities of RNA. In vitro transcription (IVT)-based amplifications are most commonly used to amplify small quantities of RNA for microarray analysis. However, significant drawbacks exist with IVT-based amplification, and the need for alternative amplification methods remains. Herein, we validate whole transcriptome amplification (WTA), an exponential amplification technique that produces cDNA libraries and amplified target in 3 to 4 hours from nanogram quantities of total RNA using a combination of cDNA microarrays and quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR). We demonstrate that WTA material can serve as a {"}molecular archive{"} because a WTA cDNA library can be faithfully amplified through multiple rounds of PCR amplification, allowing it to serve as a bankable and distributable resource. To demonstrate applicability, WTA was combined with laser capture microdissection to profile frozen prostate tissues. Unlike most IVT-based and exponential amplification techniques, WTA does not depend on the presence of a poly-A tail. Thus, we demonstrate that WTA is compatible with artificially degraded RNA and RNA isolated from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissues. Taken together, WTA represents a versatile approach to profile and archive cDNA from minute tumor samples and is compatible with partially degraded RNA.",
keywords = "Exponential RNA amplification, FFPE tissue, Laser capture microdissection, Prostate cancer, Whole transcriptome amplification",
author = "Tomlins, {Scott A.} and Rohit Mehra and Rhodes, {Daniel R.} and Shah, {Rajal B.} and Rubin, {Mark A.} and Eric Bruening and Vladimir Makarov and Chinnaiyan, {Arul M.}",
note = "Funding Information: Address all correspondence to: Arul M. Chinnaiyan, MD, PhD, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, 1301 Catherine Road, MSI Room 4237, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0602. E-mail: arul@umich.edu 1This work was supported, in part, by the American Cancer Society (RSG-02-179-MGO to A.M.C. and M.A.R.), the National Institutes of Health (Prostate SPORE P50CA69568 to A.M.C, M.A.R., and R.B.S.), R01AG21404 (to M.A.R. and A.M.C.), Early Detection Research Network (UO1 CA111275-01 to A.M.C. and M.A.R.), the Department of Defense (PC040517 to R.M.), and the V Foundation (to A.M.C.). A.M.C. is a Pew Biomedical Scholar, whereas S.A.T. and D.R.R. are Fellows of the Medical Scientist Training Program. *This article refers to supplementary material, which is designated by {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}W{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} (i.e., Table W1, and Figure W1) and is available online at www.bcdecker.com. Received 15 November 2005; Revised 15 November 2005; Accepted 8 December 2005.",
doi = "10.1593/neo.05754",
journal = "Neoplasia (United States)",
T1 - Whole transcriptome amplification for gene expression profiling and development of molecular archives
AU - Tomlins, Scott A.
AU - Mehra, Rohit
AU - Rhodes, Daniel R.
AU - Shah, Rajal B.
AU - Rubin, Mark A.
AU - Bruening, Eric
AU - Makarov, Vladimir
AU - Chinnaiyan, Arul M.
N1 - Funding Information: Address all correspondence to: Arul M. Chinnaiyan, MD, PhD, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, 1301 Catherine Road, MSI Room 4237, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0602. E-mail: arul@umich.edu 1This work was supported, in part, by the American Cancer Society (RSG-02-179-MGO to A.M.C. and M.A.R.), the National Institutes of Health (Prostate SPORE P50CA69568 to A.M.C, M.A.R., and R.B.S.), R01AG21404 (to M.A.R. and A.M.C.), Early Detection Research Network (UO1 CA111275-01 to A.M.C. and M.A.R.), the Department of Defense (PC040517 to R.M.), and the V Foundation (to A.M.C.). A.M.C. is a Pew Biomedical Scholar, whereas S.A.T. and D.R.R. are Fellows of the Medical Scientist Training Program. *This article refers to supplementary material, which is designated by ''W'' (i.e., Table W1, and Figure W1) and is available online at www.bcdecker.com. Received 15 November 2005; Revised 15 November 2005; Accepted 8 December 2005.
N2 - Expression profiling of clinically obtainable tumor specimens has been hindered by the need for microgram quantities of RNA. In vitro transcription (IVT)-based amplifications are most commonly used to amplify small quantities of RNA for microarray analysis. However, significant drawbacks exist with IVT-based amplification, and the need for alternative amplification methods remains. Herein, we validate whole transcriptome amplification (WTA), an exponential amplification technique that produces cDNA libraries and amplified target in 3 to 4 hours from nanogram quantities of total RNA using a combination of cDNA microarrays and quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR). We demonstrate that WTA material can serve as a "molecular archive" because a WTA cDNA library can be faithfully amplified through multiple rounds of PCR amplification, allowing it to serve as a bankable and distributable resource. To demonstrate applicability, WTA was combined with laser capture microdissection to profile frozen prostate tissues. Unlike most IVT-based and exponential amplification techniques, WTA does not depend on the presence of a poly-A tail. Thus, we demonstrate that WTA is compatible with artificially degraded RNA and RNA isolated from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissues. Taken together, WTA represents a versatile approach to profile and archive cDNA from minute tumor samples and is compatible with partially degraded RNA.
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Punta Bagnà (in Italian) or Cime du Grand Vallon (in French) is a mountain of Savoie, France and of the Province of Turin, Italy. It lies in the Cottian Alps range. It has an elevation of 3,129 metres above sea level.

Etymology

The name used on the Italian maps comes from  Piedmontese "Bagnà" («wet»), which should derive from the look of the blackish fine ground nearby the summit. The French name comes from the "Grand Vallon", a secondary valley which starts from the mountain and goes northwards towards Charmaix and Modane.

Geography
In the French subdivision of western Alps it belongs to the Massif du Mont-Cenis while in the SOIUSA (International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps) it is part of the mountain group called "gruppo della Pierre Menue" (Italian) or "groupe de l'Aiguille de Scolette" (French).

Administratively the mountain is divided between the Italian comune of Bardonecchia (southern face) and the French communes of Modane (north-western face) and Avrieux (north-eastern face).

Access to the summit
The easiest route for the summit starts from col du Fréjus, which connects Modane and Bardonecchia, then passes by punta del Fréjus and follows the south-western ridge of the mountain.

Notes

Maps
 Italian official cartography (Istituto Geografico Militare - IGM); on-line version: www.pcn.minambiente.it
 French  official cartography (Institut Géographique National - IGN); on-line version:  www.geoportail.fr
 Istituto Geografico Centrale - Carta dei sentieri e dei rifugi scala 1:50.000 n. 1 Valli di Susa Chisone e Germanasca e 1:25.000 n. 104 Bardonecchia Monte Thabor Sauze d'Oulx

External links
 Punta Bagnà: 360° panoramic image from the summit on pano.ica-net.it

Mountains of the Alps
Mountains of Savoie
Mountains of Piedmont
Alpine three-thousanders
France–Italy border
International mountains of Europe
Mountains partially in France
Mountains partially in Italy
Three-thousanders of France
Three-thousanders of Italy

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A project in Uganda has shown that ICTs can greatly contribute to the economic empowerment of women though increasing access to relevant information.
Evaluations for the CEEWA-Uganda ICTs Project show that most business women who were trained and helped to utilize ICTs like mobile phones, radio, computers (internet), photocopying, television were able to register marked business growth after starting to utilize these ICTs as tools to improve their businesses.
The project was implemented by CEEWA-Uganda (Council for Economic Empowerment for Women of Africa-Uganda Chapter), an NGO committed to the economic empowerment of women in Africa.
Under its Women and Entrepreneurship Development program, CEEWA-Uganda in 1999 commissioned a survey to find out the information needs of women entrepreneurs in business information and entrepreneurship skills.
The survey revealed that women entrepreneurs at the grassroots (entrepreneurs in small-and medium-size businesses)—lacked information on credit facilities, credit and savings management and ways of improving their products and services. Samuel Sefunka, the Program Offier of CEEWA-Uganda says this was in addition to the businesswoemn not always knowing market prices, costing and pricing.
Speaking in an interview, Senfuka says the baseline study found that the women entrepreneurs also lacked computer and writing skills. "Many of the respondents expressed desire for training in enterprise development. It was from this survey that CEEWA-Uganda developed the ICTs Project," Senfuka says.
With support from International Development Research Centre- IDRC, (1999-2001), CEEWA-Uganda was able to mobilize economically active rural and peri urban women entrepreneurs and pilot test the Project in three districts of Mpigi, Wakiso and Kampala in central Uganda.
Under the ICTs project, CEEWA-Uganda designed a database driven website with information on best practices in agriculture, business skills, market prices, trade related issues, finance support institutions and women network groups. CEEWA-Uganda also developed training manuals on ICTs use in furthering of businesses.
"The Humanistic Institute for Cooperation with Developing Countries (Hivos) came in to support CEEWA – Uganda to continue implementing the ICT project, now in six project sites/districts extending to eastern Uganda in Budondo Sub-County, Jinja district and Bulamagi sub county Iganga district as well as Mukono district," Senfuka says.
According to the review of the CEEWA-Uganda ICTs project, beneficiaries realized a lot of achievements, especially being able to order for and sell goods on phone; getting market prices from sms, radio and internet; being able to pay or contribute to school fees for their children, increased power to negotiate and better business relations.
Teo Kamya of Sango parish, in Mpigi district, central Uganda is one of the beneficiaries of the project. "I also learned to use a mobile phone to send text messages to look for markets and new products," Sango says in an interview.
"I had been selling milk but couldn't tell how I was spending the money until CEEWA-Uganda trained us in book keeping and best practices in animal rearing. I have bought an incubator that breeds 120 chicken at ago which I sell at sh700 each. In addition, I have got a heifer cow that produces 15 liters of milk a day," Sango adds.
Despite the good achievement, the evaluation of the ICTs project did raise a number of challenges women entrepreneurs are facing, which challenges must be addressed if entrepreneurs are to enjoy full benefits that ICTs bring to businesses.
Edith Mwanje, the Chairperson of CEEWA-Uganda says that their evaluation of the project noted that apart from the multiple gender roles of women beneficiaries that constrains their time, women are not able to maximize the benefits of ICTs use because of limited access to ICTs, which is mainly due to infrastructure problems such as unavailability of connectivity, power supply, long distance to centers, high cost of ICTs and maintenance of the ICTs.
"High illiteracy levels among the beneficiaries also hinder maximum use of the ICTs. Stakeholders also need to address the high levels of poverty and relevancy of ICTs to small size of Small Micro Enterprises," Mwanje says.
Senfuka and Mwanje believe that these challenges are better addressed in the framework of improving the Uganda National ICT Policy. The Government of Uganda in 2002 put in place an ICT policy to guide the government's role of supporting the access of relevant ICTs in all parts of the country.
"The ICT Policy needs to be gender sensitive by ensuring most women at the grassroots can access ICT services. It is not enough to have an ICT center in the town when most women do not have transport to go there. The access of ICTS needs to also be supported by reliability of ICTs so that women really save time," Mwanje says.
The government of Uganda has been laying a fiber optic cable in different parts of the country. Uganda together with her East Africa Community partners (Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi) are also working together to connect to the Under Sea Fiber Optic Cable that is expected to greatly reduce internet connection and related costs, and thus improve access to most ICTs and reliability of ICTs for most Ugandans.


Kent M. Pitman. The Revised MacLisp Manual. "Saturday Morning Edition", M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science Technical Report MIT-LCS-TR-295, June 1, 1983.
This has been out of print for many years, but Kent just made available an updated, hypertext "Sunday Morning Edition".
If you are interested in more MacLisp history, including earlier manuals, source code, and more, see the MacLisp family of the Lisp website at the Computer History Museum.
Update 1/1/2016: Corrected URL for MacLisp family.
This week's episode of BBC Radio's Digital Planet show includes a short segment on the 50th anniversary of Fortran. The presenter, Gareth Mitchell, interviewed me last week and about 4 minutes of that interview are included.
The Fortran segment starts at about 19m38s into the show.
The Computer History Museum has just launched a partnership with YouTube to provide a ComputerHistory "channel". Right now it has 23 videos from various events and lectures at the museum; if you subscribe (via the orange button), you'll be notified when more are uploaded. In the mean time, the museum maintains a calendar of past events with links to video, where available.
Update 1/1/2016: Updated URL for CHM past events.


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Democrats shouldn't fear Sanders's talk of revolution. Their party was built on it.
Sen. Bernie Sanders held court in Iowa earlier this month. (Charles Ommanney/The Washington Post)
By Yoav Fromer
Whenever Sen. Bernie Sanders talks about overthrowing the system — his campaign "is nothing short of the beginning of a political revolution," he declared in his New Hampshire victory speech Tuesday night, for instance — mainstream Democrats roll their eyes. Frankly, you can't really blame them: They've heard this talk before, and it never ends well. Howard Dean in 2004 and Jesse Jackson twice in the 1980s used similar rhetoric to briefly exhilarate, then bitterly polarize, the party before their campaigns imploded. George McGovern promised to harness the left wing's youthful energy; his dismal landslide defeat by President Richard Nixon in 1972 continues to haunt the Democratic establishment, which now seeks to filter presidential candidates through one paramount criterion: electability.
In the name of electability, Sanders's liberal critics dismiss him as naive. Hillary Clinton, who calls herself the "practical" one, condescendingly rebuffs his ideas as "good on paper" but irrelevant to what Democrats need: "a progressive who likes to get things done." Her constant pleas to "get back to the middle" and reclaim "the big center" place her in the pragmatic liberal tradition of presidents Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson and her husband, Bill — while distancing her from the ideologues of her party's past. She and her supporters echo Christopher Lasch's fatalistic lament that "radicalism in the United States has no great triumphs to record" and imply that it does more harm than good.
But in so doing, they forget an important lesson from Democratic history: Today's consensus liberals cribbed most of their ideas from yesterday's contrarian revolutionaries. In politics, as in nature, all motion is relative, and the political center that Clinton and her allies claim was, not long ago, considered the fringe. American liberalism's greatest achievements to date — progressive reforms, the New Deal, the Great Society, feminism and multiculturalism — were all born from revolutionary movements. And many goals that once appeared unachievable (for instance, a progressive income tax or same-sex marriage) eventually became inseparable from the Democratic platform. The mainstream liberal order Democrats want to protect would never have come about without the revolutionary talk they now deride.
Some of the earliest organized challenges to the dire social, economic and political consequences of industrial capitalism in the late 19th century originated with the disgruntled agrarian forces of the Midwest and South. These revolutionary tides mobilized the Populist movement and eventually led to the short-lived People's Party, a national organization with radical economic and political ideas but reactionary cultural ones (including xenophobia, anti-Semitism and anti-intellectualism). At their formative convention in Omaha in 1892, party officials issued demands that came to be known as the Omaha Platform. "We seek to restore the government of the Republic to the hands of 'the plain people,' " it stated. At that time, according to Populist movement historian Lawrence Goodwyn, "millions of people" thought that "a wholesale overhauling of their society was going to happen in their lifetimes. A democratic 'new day' was coming to America." Conventioneers adopted the Omaha Platform, calling for, among other things, a graduated income tax, an eight-hour workday, a "safe, sound and flexible" national currency, secret ballots, the introduction of ballot initiatives and referendums, the direct election of senators (rather than through state legislatures) and government ownership of the railroads.
The opposition was fierce: A plutocratic alliance of Northeastern financiers, railroad corporations and their political allies in both parties painted the Populists as dangerously radical. The New York Times called part of their plan "one of the wildest and most fantastic projects ever seriously proposed by sober man," while an influential Nebraska newspaper labeled their leaders "shiftless, lazy and improvident" and grumbled that "it is a sin and a shame that these pests are permitted to beslime the state." Mounting criticism of the Midwest-based movement led the influential newspaper editor William Allen White to famously first pose the question: "What's the matter with Kansas?"
Within a few years, the answer was clear: nothing at all. Aside from proposals to nationalize the railroads, most of the original agenda of the People's Party found its way into the Democratic Party platform. In 1896, the parties even temporarily merged as William Jennings Bryan became both the Democratic and the People's presidential nominee. Within two decades, many of the Populists' goals had been realized, if only partially, by Woodrow Wilson's administration: The 16th Amendment and subsequent revenue acts of 1913 and 1916 ensured a graduated income tax, the 17th Amendment secured direct elections for senators and the 19th Amendment guaranteed women's suffrage (another early Populist cause, especially in the West). In addition, the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 began to meet farmers' basic need for a sound monetary supply. And while the Sherman and Clayton antitrust acts may not have dismantled the railroad cartels, the resulting regulations weakened their control of the economy, answering the complaint that had helped spark the Populist revolt in the first place.
If the costs of economic modernization challenged the intellectual and moral foundations of the modern Democratic Party, revolutionary shifts in the political consciousness of Americans prompted them to demand help from their government. In the wake of the Great Depression, the inevitable result was the New Deal, generally celebrated today as the epitome of common-sense liberalism. At the time, it was anything but.
In the 1930s and 1940s, labor unions, farmers, populists, progressives, consumers, technocrats and even socialists agitated for programs that eventually made up the enormous government undertaking. Gargantuan federal infrastructure projects included public ownership and planning (the Tennessee Valley Authority), government-funded mass employment (the Works Progress Administration), the regulation of labor-management relations and consolidation of collective-bargaining rights (the National Labor Relations Act) and the compulsory use of payroll taxes to fund retirement pensions (Social Security).
Even if they never conceded this in public, many New Dealers determinedly incorporated revolutionary proposals into their programs; Roosevelt privately admitted that "what we were doing in this country were some of the things that were being done in Russia." When Huey Long, the governor turned senator from Louisiana, launched his "Share Our Wealth" campaign in 1934 to radically redistribute assets (possibly in the hopes of mounting a third-party challenge to Roosevelt), the president fired back with a redistributive plan of his own: Although the Wealth Tax Act of 1935 — also known as the "soak the rich" tax — was mostly a symbolic gesture that raised the income tax rate to 75 percent for only a handful of top earners, Roosevelt observed that it allowed him to "steal Huey's thunder" and outflank him from the left.
Roosevelt's detractors, even those from his own party, were horrified by these developments. The American Liberty League, for instance, was formed in response as an umbrella group for corporate executives and industrialists (such as the du Ponts). It was helmed by notable Democratic figures including former presidential nominees Al Smith and John W. Davis and the corporate executive John Jacob Raskob, who had served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. "Just get the platform of the Democratic Party and get the platform of the Socialist Party, and lay them down on your dining room table, side by side," Smith, a former New York governor, groused in a famous address at the league's annual banquet in 1936. "Get a heavy lead pencil and scratch out the word 'Democrat,' and scratch out the word 'Socialist,' and let the two platforms lay there." Claiming the mantle of Jefferson and Jackson as his own, Smith compared New Dealers to Marx and Lenin; he warned that "there can be only one capital — Washington or Moscow."
Still, Roosevelt was undaunted. In his 1944 State of the Union address — part of which he called a "second Bill of Rights" — he invoked the founders' spirit and asked Congress to establish the right to "useful and remunerative" employment; a regular paycheck that provides "adequate food and clothing and recreation" and ensures "a decent living"; adequate housing, education and medical care; and "protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident and unemployment." Today, most conservatives accept that the government is responsible for some public welfare, universal education, Social Security and even some job creation and health care.
The next generation of reformers wanted to go much further. If there ever was a genuine threat of revolution in America, it came during the late 1960s as an answer to the war in Vietnam. The New Left movement consciously brought the war home in an effort to end it: Mass demonstrations and protest marches by what Norman Mailer colorfully called "the Armies of the Night" paralyzed the nation's major cities; acrimony between students and administrators bred clashes across campuses and transformed Kent State, Columbia and Berkeley (among others) into militarized battlefields; even the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago degenerated on live television into a heartbreaking orgy of wrath, violence and hate. No wonder Nixon's attorney general, John Mitchell, watching the antiwar protesters outside his office window, recalled the storming of the Winter Palace by the Bolsheviks.
To many protesters, the war was a symptom of what Paul Potter, the president of Students for a Democratic Society, called a "deeper malaise" plaguing America: Corporate capitalism was stifling the creative spirit and dehumanizing workers, faceless bureaucracies had colonized the democratic process, social conformity was rampant in a materialist consumer culture, institutional racism went unchecked, and strict patriarchal gender roles repressed women's empowerment and individual sexuality. The activists, under the umbrella of organizations such as SDS, embraced diversity, integration, self-expression and personal autonomy (alongside more traditional economic concerns). They emphasized, as the Democratic Party's revolutionary platform read in 1972, "the right to be different, to maintain a cultural or ethnic heritage or lifestyle, without being forced into a compelled homogeneity."
The revolution to overthrow those anachronistic practices seemed dead on arrival: The disintegration of the New Left and McGovern's disastrous presidential campaign heralded failure. Nixon won, then won again with the help of his "silent majority," which delivered 12 more years of Republican rule after a one-term flirtation with Jimmy Carter. Decades later, the campaign finance system still inhibits genuine participatory democracy; the exhaustion of Keynesian policies in the 1970s allowed corporate capitalism to persist; Reaganomics and neoliberalism took hold.
But the uprising and its goals were not forgotten or abandoned: The insurgents eventually won the cultural war. They ushered in a "rights revolution" that set the stage for multiculturalism and the elevation of race, gender and sexuality on the Democratic Party's national agenda — where they remain to this day.
Even Bill Clinton's presidency, which in some ways seemed like an attempt to disavow liberalism's revolutionary excesses, helped advance the cause. Yes, under his administration, guided by the moderate Democratic Leadership Council, Wall Street was increasingly deregulated (with the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act in the late 1990s); income inequality skyrocketed despite the prosperous economy; and NAFTA solidified America's embrace of neoliberalism. But Clinton also gave a greater voice than any of his predecessors to the issues of racial and gender equality, cultural diversity and universal tolerance — all causes of the New Left. He promised voters a Cabinet that "looks like America," and he kept his word, assembling the most diverse administration to date and placing unprecedented numbers of women and minorities in Cabinet and government posts.
The "first black president" worked to compensate African American farmers for the billions of dollars they lost because of the government's discriminatory farm loan program. Clinton's National Homeownership Strategy helped lift minorities' home ownership rates by about five percentage points (well above the average increase nationwide) and aided more than 2 million African Americans and Hispanics in acquiring their own homes. In addition, he contributed to their social mobility by raising the minimum wage by more than 20 percent. Clinton also pushed to expand reproductive rights, maternity leave and equal pay for women, despite the hypocrisy and sexism inherent in his affair with his intern. Although Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996, he also enacted "don't ask, don't tell," a critical (if problematic) step toward integrating gay service members into the military.
In an important 2002 study, Ruy Teixeira and John Judis predicted an "Emerging Democratic Majority" that would result from the political realignment of minorities and working women, who began to coalesce around the party in the 1972 elections and gradually helped Democrats compensate for the defection of white working-class voters. For them, this shift constituted "George McGovern's Revenge." But it was also proof of just how powerful and pervasive the revolutionary sensibilities of the New Left proved to be. The coalition behind those ideas brought Barack Obama to power in 2008.
Like many of his predecessors, Obama employed revolutionary language on behalf of policies that, in retrospect, weren't revolutionary anymore. A good example is Obamacare, rooted in Roosevelt's insistence that every American had a right to adequate medical care. That notion had failed to animate Congress, despite the ardent support of Truman (who proposed a revolutionary national insurance plan), Johnson (who implemented part of that plan with Medicare and Medicaid) and first lady Hillary Clinton. Obama took a radical idea and achieved it in the least revolutionary way: winning an election, garnering congressional support for a somewhat curtailed program that dumped the public option and then barely getting the Supreme Court's approval.
All these revolutionary ideas took hold inside the Democratic Party because their proponents shared something moderates lacked: a political imagination that looked beyond the status quo and imagined a different society. Those futurists were most successful during harrowing moments of national crisis. The Populists voiced the disgust of millions of Americans with the social ravages of industrial capitalism, in which the "Bourbon" Democratic establishment led by President Grover Cleveland was often complicit. Decades later, Roosevelt answered the Great Depression with New Deal ideas (economic nationalization and regulation, public ownership and planning, worker solidarity, and social welfare) conceived to prevent future depressions. The New Left modeled our multicultural future because its activists — unlike the moderate LBJ wing of the party, which was mostly satisfied with the civil rights legislation — were the only ones who even acknowledged there were still problems with racial, gender and sexual relations.
Revolutionary ideas still had to pass muster with electoral majorities, and it's telling that several — the redistribution of taxes, the direct election of senators, women's suffrage — even became constitutional amendments, which required overwhelming majorities in Congress and in state legislatures. The Supreme Court initially invalidated some of the New Deal's most ambitious proposals (industrial- and agricultural-support laws), forcing Roosevelt's allies to alter them without necessarily giving them up.
It's fair for Democrats to press Sanders on how, exactly, he intends to achieve his "political revolution." What is unfair is to dismiss his policies outright because they seem too far from the mainstream. Concepts from the left fringe have, throughout American history, served as corrective rather than destructive devices. Instead of smashing institutions, these ideas have mostly provided a moral compass for repairing them; many radical-worker, populist, progressive and even socialist ideas didn't necessarily undermine the mainstream Democratic agenda as much as reorient it toward more urgent and just directions. Sanders's push to fix a rigged economy and curtail campaign cash may shape the future Democratic agenda, regardless of whether he gets the nomination. (Clinton's attempt to brandish her anti-Wall Street credentials shows that this shift has already begun.)
There is little doubt that Clinton's pragmatic sensibility is invaluable for getting things done. But the revolutionary tradition in which Sanders stands can make sure they get done for the right reasons. In this way, the center and the fringe are symbiotic. Ideology is a terrible tool for governing but a necessary reminder of what government is for. Next time Sanders talks about revolution, skeptical mainstream liberals should hold their tongues and recall that the most exceptional quality of the American political system is its ability to absorb and implement so many revolutionary ideas without ever having had an actual revolution.
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Simple Dips and Baked BBQ Chicken – Eat, Drink, and Go!
Yay three day weekend! Plenty of opportunities to cook and eat good foods. The weather for our gathering yesterday was iffy, so I didn't count on grilling. Instead, I did an all-indoor-made spread. Starting with one of my favorites – a spinach and artichoke dip. I make this different ways, and it's very easy to adapt to what you've got on hand. I went with frozen artichoke hearts and spinach.
Thaw out in the microwave and cut it all up into small pieces. About a cup and a half of each of these items.
Then add one brick of cream cheese. I use the nonfat kind because I don't think you can really tell a difference, so save the fat for the cheese!
Mix in the cream cheese and then thin it out with about half a cup of milk.
Then start adding flavors! I used a little bit of olive oil Mayo (one tablespoon), some Worcester sauce, and a garlic spice from Spice Cave.
Mix all this around, but keep in mind that here is where you can season creatively. And like I said, I do it different every time!
Add a little salt and pepper to taste. Then I go with at least two cheeses. Typically a melty one (Colby jack here) and a flavorful one (Parm).
Mix it all up and then spread in an oven safe baking dish.
Always add extra cheese on top. "That's too much cheese"…said no person ever.
You can bake this for a long time – like 40 minute on 350 – giving you plenty of time to put other dishes together. Like a lovely guacamole!
I started with about four small avocados and a lime.
Be careful – apparently there's this new injury called "avocado hand" where you cut into your hand instead of the avocado. I hurt myself in the kitchen now and then, but come on people – so many injuries from avocados that there's a name for it?!?
Scoop out all that goodness into a bowl to mix with the juice of one whole lime, some chopped fresh cilantro, and then I add some nonfat Greek yogurt for creaminess.
Blend with a fork, but leave some good avocado chunks in there. Mmmm. Salt and pepper to taste. I'm sure there are a million guacamole recipes. For me, it's all about the avocado. I could just do it plain avocado style and be totally satisfied. This is one wholesome, all-the-flavor-you-need kinda food. And good for you too!! But this is one way to guac it up!!
I also made some yummy baked BBQ chicken. I like to bake it for most of the cooking time with a dry rub to get the flavors soaked in.
Same spice I used in the spinach artichoke dip, Land from the Spice Cave.
This is a very versatile seasoning. Nice garlic base with Himalayan salt and some other nice flavors. http://www.thespicecave.com. I baked the chicken at 350 for about an hour. Then, I doused it with a delicious BBQ sauce from Tipsy Foods, a Maple Bacon BBQ Sauce. Can't go wrong there!!
This sauce has a nice tangy sweetness with hints of maple and bacon and can go on anything! www.tipsyfoods.com. Bake for another 20 minutes or so.
Yummm!! The good thing about dark meat, like drumsticks, is that the meat doesn't dry out and, instead, just soaks in the flavors you add. It's why I grill with pretty much only the thighs and legs these days instead of the breasts. The bones in drumsticks also help you tell when it's done – the meat will start pulling away.
The chicken was a big hit. I made enough food to feed an army, so we have plenty leftover for repurposing during the rest of this nice long Memorial Day Weekend!!
Thank you to all the veterans out there! The land of the free BECAUSE of the brave.
Maryland Crabs and Crab Pizza!
Looking at your step by step photos, I feel like I could actually make these delicious sounding and looking dishes!!!! Thanks Go Girl!


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About SCO
上海合作组织Шанхайская организация сотрудничестваThe Shanghai cooperation organisation
SCO Secretary-General meets with Yunnan Province Vice-Governor Chen Shun
On 24 June 2019, SCO Secretary-General Vladimir Norov met with Vice-Governor of Yunnan Province Chen Shun, while visiting the city of Kunming.
The Secretary-General noted that this trip had provided him with a unique opportunity to become familiar with the province's landmarks, to learn about its long-time history and culture and to admire the beauty of its wonderful nature.
"The International SCO Marathon in Kunming won genuine global acclaim. This sport brings people together and helps expand cooperation and exchanges between the SCO countries," Mr Norov noted and thanked the province's administrators for supporting the International SCO Marathon and their personal attention to it.
While noting that Yunnan Province was an appealing tourist destination (that is being taken advantage of) and that it attracts over 500 million tourists annually, Mr Norov said the SCO Secretariat was promoting the Eight Wonders of the SCO project to expand tourist exchanges between the SCO countries. Beijing had hosted a successful presentation of the project on 21 June in honour of SCO Day. Aiming to promote the project still further, Mr Norov suggested presenting it once again during the International Tourism Exhibition, scheduled for November 2019.
Vice-Governor of Yunnan Province Chen Shun thanked Mr Norov for visiting Kunming and briefed him on the province's current economic status, local exports, the development of the tourism industry, and cooperation with ASEAN countries.
He noted that the International SCO Marathon had provided a unique opportunity for strengthening the image of Kunming and Yunnan Province, and that it also helped to attract tourists. He also emphasised that Kunming University's China-SCO Centre of Youth Exchanges had great potential that should be exploited for the sake of expanding intra-SCO dialogue and youth contacts.
The Vice-Governor thanked Mr Norov for his proposals on tourism cooperation and supported the SCO Secretariat's participation at the International Tourism Exhibition in November.
The meeting was held in a friendly atmosphere.
SCO Secretary-General meets with Yunnan Province Vice-Governor
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Athletes Of The Week: Rowan Watt
May 21, 2021 Avi Smolka
A state champion and team leader, Wayne Country Day's Rowan Watt has done great things for the school's baseball program.
On a Chargers team loaded with talent, Watt was the team's unquestioned leader, and his coaches and teammates did not take his production, versatility, and energy for granted.
"It feels awesome, and it's something that you dream of," Watt said about winning a state title. "It's just a big moment for the entire team."
Watt has played baseball for most of his life, and his father is University of Mount Olive head baseball coach Rob Watt.
And spending time around one of the best DII baseball programs in the country for most of his life has paid dividends and helped him evolve to where he is now.
Watt joined the Chargers two seasons ago, and he and his teammates quickly bonded on and off the field. However, Watt's junior season was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Chargers were 4-0 before the season was cut short, and losing the season was painful for Watt and his teammates, but they used their pain as fuel for this season.
This season the Chargers became even more of a family, and Watt made sure the younger athletes feel heard and respected.
"We all got a lot closer this season," Watt said. "This entire group was awesome."
Watt's leadership was on display every day through the way he carries himself, and it's also on display in the fact that he won the leadership award at the Wayne Country Day's award banquet.
"Everyone was together all the time, always doing something together," Watt said. "Everyone was such good teammates."
Watt, who committed to play baseball at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, had a terrific senior season.
He had a .434 batting average, 35 RBIs, eight home runs, six doubles, and two triples. On the mound, Watt tossed 13 strikeouts.
And as a team, the Chargers had a 19-1 overall record and won their first state championship since 2007. In their five playoff games, the Chargers outscored their opponents 69-1.
"I think whenever you only allow one run in the playoffs, that kind of gives a little bit of dominance over the other teams," Watt said.
Watt has been a terrific leader this season and has put lots of effort into unifying the team. He helps lead the team through both his words and actions, and he worked hard to make sure the Chargers accomplished their goals, especially after missing last year.
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Justia › US Law › Case Law › Colorado Case Law › Colorado Court of Appeals Decisions › 1994 › Newport Pacific Capital Co. v. Waste
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Newport Pacific Capital Co. v. Waste
878 P.2d 136 (1994)
NEWPORT PACIFIC CAPITAL COMPANY, INC., a California corporation authorized to do business in California, d/b/a The Aspens, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Michael WASTE, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 93CA0635.
Colorado Court of Appeals, Div. I.
*138 Heckman & O'Connor, P.C., Brett Steven Heckman, Vail, for plaintiff-appellee.
Larsen & Kovacevich, P.C., Jill E. Kovacevich, Vail, for defendant-appellant.
Leslie J. Ranniger, amicus curiae.
*137 Opinion by Judge ROY.
This is an unlawful detainer action commenced by the plaintiff, Newport Pacific Capital Company, Inc., against the defendant, Michael Waste, alleging violation of mobile home park rules. Waste appeals from an adverse judgment of the trial court finding that a rule prohibiting the rental of mobile home units or the subleasing of mobile home spaces was not unreasonable under § 38-12-203(1)(c), C.R.S. (1993 Cum.Supp.) and awarding Newport its attorney fees and costs. We remand for additional proceedings on the amount of attorney fees awarded to Newport.
Newport, a management company, operates a mobile home park near Vail, Colorado, known as "The Aspens." On July 21, 1992, pursuant to § 38-12-203(1)(c), Newport issued a rule that prohibited rental of mobile home units and the subleasing of spaces effective on October 1, 1992.
Newport did not enforce the rule against owners who had pre-existing subleases or who entered into new subleases before its effective date. Waste, however, re-rented his mobile home units after October 1, 1992. Newport served a notice to quit upon Waste on November 24, 1992, for failure to comply with the rule prohibiting rentals and then commenced this action.
Waste challenged the rule prohibiting rentals on the basis that it was prima facie unreasonable under § 38-12-203(1)(c). The trial court concluded that the rule was not "economically unreasonable" and entered judgment for Newport for possession of Waste's lot spaces and attorney fees and costs.
Waste first contends the trial court erred in concluding that the rule promulgated by Newport was reasonable. We disagree.
Section 38-12-203(1)(c) establishes reasons for terminating a tenancy in a mobile home park and provides, in pertinent part, as follows:
Failure of the home owner to comply with written rules and regulations of the mobile home park either established by the management in the rental agreement at the inception of the tenancy, ... or amended subsequently thereto without the consent of the home owner on sixty days' written notice if the amended rules and regulations are reasonable.... For purposes of this paragraph (c), when the mobile home is owned by a person other than the owner of the mobile home park, the mobile home is a separate unit of ownership, and regulations which are adopted subsequent to the unit location in the park without the consent of the home owner and which place restrictions or requirements on that separate unit are prima facie unreasonable.
This section creates a rebuttable presumption that a rule adopted subsequent to the inception of the tenancy without the consent of the home owner is unreasonable and the mobile home park owner or manager has the burden of overcoming that presumption.
*139 Section 38-12-214(1), C.R.S. (1982 Repl. Vol. 16A) provides that rules and regulations issued by a mobile home park owner are enforceable against a resident only if:
(a) Their purpose is to promote the convenience, safety, or welfare of the home owners, protect and preserve the premises from abusive use, or make a fair distribution of services and facilities held out for the home owners generally; (b) They are reasonably related to the purpose for which they are adopted; (c) They are not retaliatory or discriminatory in nature; (d) They are sufficiently explicit in prohibition, direction, or limitation of the home owner's conduct to fairly inform him of what he must or must not do to comply. The court found and concluded that: Plaintiff's amendments to its rules and regulations are in fact reasonable and based upon a reasonable classification and, specifically, that they do not violate C.R.S. XX-XX-XXX(1)(c) and C.R.S. XX-XX-XXX and are not discriminatory. To the contrary, the Court specifically finds that the purpose of the rule was to promote the convenience, safety and welfare of the homeowners in the park.
The court also concluded that the rule was not economically unreasonable.
Waste, in essence, argues that the court's factual findings do not, as a matter of law, support its conclusion that the rule promulgated by Newport is reasonable. However, because Waste did not designate the transcript of the trial or the exhibits as part of the appellate record, we must presume that the evidence supports the findings of fact, and, absent a misapplication of the law, we may not disturb those findings. Teets v. Richardson, 131 Colo. 592, 284 P.2d 233 (1955); White v. Jackson, 41 Colo.App. 433, 586 P.2d 243 (1978).
In determining that the rule was reasonable, the court took into consideration not only the evidence presented but also the requirements of § 38-12-214. Therefore, based on the arguments presented, we are unable to conclude that the trial court erred as a matter of law in finding that the rule was reasonable.
Waste next contends that the rule promulgated by Newport is unreasonable because it violates due process and constitutes a denial of equal protection of the law. Waste argues that the trial court's action in upholding the rule was an unreasonable governmental interference with the use and enjoyment of his property. We conclude that Waste's argument is misconceived.
Due process and equal protection of the law apply to prevent the deprivation of "rights" by the state, but not, as here, to limit private conduct abridging individual rights. See National Collegiate Athletic Ass'n v. Tarkanian, 488 U.S. 179, 109 S. Ct. 454, 102 L. Ed. 2d 469 (1988).
To the extent that Waste asserts that § 38-12-203(1)(c) is unconstitutional as applied, we conclude from the limited record on appeal that he failed properly to raise this argument in the trial court, and thus, we are precluded from addressing it on appeal. See Estate of Stevenson v. Hollywood Bar & Cafe, Inc., 832 P.2d 718, 721, fn. 5 (Colo. 1992); Bush v. Roche Constructors, Inc., 817 P.2d 608 (Colo.App.1991).
We also reject Waste's contention that the issue was raised in the trial briefs of both parties by the assertion that the rule places an "unreasonable restraint on alienation." That assertion did not, and could not be expected to, put the trial court on notice that he was challenging the constitutionality of the statute as applied.
Lastly, Waste contends that the trial court's award of attorney fees and costs is excessive and should be reduced. We remand for additional proceedings.
Both the Forcible Entry and Detainer Act and the Mobile Home Park Act permit the trial court to award attorney fees and costs. See § 13-40-123, C.R.S. (1987 Repl.Vol. 6A) and § 38-12-209(3), C.R.S. (1982 Repl.Vol. 16A).
*140 The guiding principle with regard to attorney fees is one of reasonableness. Hartman v. Freedman, 197 Colo. 275, 591 P.2d 1318 (1979); Law Offices of J.E. Losavio, Jr., v. Law Firm of Michael W. McDivitt, P.C., 865 P.2d 934 (Colo.App.1993). The determination of reasonableness is within the sound discretion of the trial court and will not be reversed unless it is patently erroneous and unsupported by the evidence. Hartman v. Freedman, supra; Robinson v. Lynmar Racquet Club, Inc., 851 P.2d 274 (Colo. App.1993).
Here, the trial court, after reviewing briefs filed by both parties and apparently conducting a hearing regarding the amount of attorney fees and costs to be awarded, entered judgment for the full amount sought by Newport stating:
The Court, having considered the factors presented at the hearing, the nature of this case, and the one-and-a-half-day trial orders that judgment for attorney fees and costs is awarded to the plaintiff against the defendant, in the amount of $9,671.35. A.
Waste argues that the trial court erred in not allocating the attorney fees between this case and a companion case against another tenant involving identical issues, which was to be tried simultaneously but settled just prior to trial. We agree that such an allocation should be made if practicable and remand for that purpose.
When there are multiple parties and an award of attorney fees is entered against only one of the parties, the trial court, to the extent practical, should apportion the fees so that only those fees incurred with regard to that party are awarded. See Harrison v. Smith, 821 P.2d 832 (Colo.App.1991) (award of attorney fees impermissibly included fees attributable to a prior litigation); Bergeson v. Midway Development Co. No. 3, 817 P.2d 606 (Colo.App.1991) (apportionment of attorney fees between claims).
In American Water Development, Inc., v. City of Alamosa, 874 P.2d 352 (Colo.1994), the supreme court considered an award of attorney fees that required allocation between claims where the dismissal of one claim without prejudice was conditioned on the plaintiff reimbursing the defendants for attorney fees incurred with respect to that claim. Because records on attorney fees had not been maintained by claim, the court approved the trial court's after-the-fact allocation of the fees based on estimates by defendants' counsel and the trial court's imposition of a ten percent discount on the total fees to avoid "overlap" between the claims.
Based upon the limited record on appeal relative to the attorney fee issue, we are unable to determine whether the trial court properly allocated, or could allocate, the award of attorney fees between the two actions. Therefore, we remand to the trial court for determination of what amount, if any, of the attorney fees awarded to Newport should be attributed to the dismissed action. On remand, upon presentation of appropriate evidence the trial court may employ the same rationale used in Alamosa in allocating attorney fees between the actions.
Waste also argues that the trial court erred by not reducing the attorney fees by the amount charged for secretarial time. We disagree.
Initially, we note that it is increasingly common for attorneys to bill separately for items that traditionally were included in the attorney fees. See Missouri v. Jenkins, 491 U.S. 274, 109 S. Ct. 2463, 105 L. Ed. 2d 229 (1989); Ramos v. Lamm, 713 F.2d 546 (10th Cir.1983).
Numerous courts have allowed for the recovery of services of paralegals, law clerks, staff, and the costs of computerized legal research. See Tipton, Economics of Tort and Insurance Law Practice: Recovering the Cost of Nonlawyer Personnel and Computerized Research, 26 Tort & Ins.L.J. 219 (1990); Annotation, Attorneys' Fees: Cost of Services Provided by Paralegals or the Like as Compensable Element of Award in State Court, 73 A.L.R. 4th 938 (1989); Annotation, Recoverability of Cost of Computerized Legal Research under 28 USCS § 1920 or Rule 54(d), Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 80 *141 A.L.R.Fed. 168 (1986); Jackson v. Law Firm of O'Hara, Ruberg, Osborne & Taylor, 875 F.2d 1224 (6th Cir.1989) (paralegal; secretarial services); Willamette Production Credit Ass'n v. Borg-Warner Acceptance Corp., 75 Or.App. 154, 706 P.2d 577 (1985) (secretarial; legal assistant time).
In Willamette, the Oregon Court of Appeals stated:
In setting a reasonable attorney fee for the prevailing party, it is appropriate for the court to take into consideration the actual billing practices of the party's attorney. Traditionally, courts simply have determined fees based on the hourly charge for the attorney working on the case with the assumption that the hourly rate was set to recoup overhead and realize a profit. Modern electronic accounting methods allow a more specialized billing for attorney fees. Courts should recognize the reality of modern legal business practices and include expenses specially billed to the client in the attorney fees award when they are properly documented and are reasonable. We conclude that the charges to which defendant objected [secretarial and legal assistant time, photocopying charges, long distance telephone charges, and postage] are proper in addition to the amounts attributable to individual attorneys' hourly charges.
Willamette Production Credit Ass'n v. Borg-Warner Acceptance Corp., supra, 75 Or.App. at 159, 706 P.2d at 580.
In awarding attorney fees, the court must consider: (1) the time and labor required, the novelty and difficulty of the questions involved, and the skill requisite to perform the legal service properly; (2) the likelihood, if apparent to the client, that the acceptance of the particular employment will preclude other employment by the lawyer; (3) the fee customarily charged in the locality for similar legal services; (4) the amount involved and the results obtained; (5) the time limitations imposed by the client or by the circumstances; (6) the nature and length of the professional relationship with the client; (7) the experience, reputation, and ability of the lawyer or lawyers performing the services; and (8) whether the fee is fixed or contingent. Colorado Rules of Professional Conduct Rule 1.5; Mau v. E.P.H. Corp., 638 P.2d 777, 779 (Colo.1981). The record reflects that plaintiff's counsel billed secretarial services separately and that the trial court considered the appropriate criteria.
If, as found here, the total fees and charges are reasonable after considering all of the above criteria, regardless of how billed or allocated between the attorney and any support services, then they are awardable. Therefore, we conclude the trial court did not err in awarding Newport the amount charged by its counsel for secretarial services.
Waste's additional contentions with respect to the award of attorney fees and costs are without merit.
Therefore, the portion of the judgment awarding attorney fees is reversed, and the cause is remanded to the trial court for further proceedings with respect thereto in conformity with this opinion. The judgment is affirmed in all other respects.
METZGER and RULAND, JJ., concur.


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CIA Coder Convicted of Massive Leak of US Hacking Tools
A former CIA programmer was found guilty in New York federal court Wednesday of the 2017 leak of the US spy agency's most valuable hacking tools to WikiLeaks, two years after his initial prosecution ended in mistrial.
Joshua Schulte, 33, worked for the CIA's elite hacking unit when he quietly took the "Vault 7" tools it uses to break into target computer and technology systems and, after quitting his job, sent them to the anti-secrecy group.
Vault 7 was a collection of malware, viruses, trojans, and "zero day" exploits that, once leaked out, were available for use by foreign intelligence groups, hackers and cyber extortionists around the world.
Prosecutors said Schulte was a resentful employee and leaked the 8,761 documents to harm the agency.
"Schulte was aware that the collateral damage of his retribution could pose an extraordinary threat to this nation if made public, rendering them essentially useless," US Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement after the conviction.
The leak had "a devastating effect on our intelligence community by providing critical intelligence to those who wish to do us harm," said Williams.
Schulte was an early suspect after WikiLeaks began publishing the secrets, but was quietly charged in September 2017 only with having a large cache of child pornography on his computer.
Later the charges related to the theft and transmission of national defense information, under the Espionage Act, were added.
In 2020 a jury convicted him on two lesser charges of lying and contempt of court, but it was hung on the other charges.
On Wednesday a new jury convicted Schulte on eight counts under the Espionage Act and one count of obstruction. Each of the espionage-related counts can bring up to 10 years in prison.
The leak, which stunned the CIA in March 2017, was called one of the most damaging losses of classified material ever experienced by the Central Intelligence Agency.
It spurred the government to consider tough action against WikiLeaks, which then-CIA director Mike Pompeo called a "hostile intelligence service."
The US government then moved to indict WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on espionage charges. Assange is currently in Britain fighting extradition to the United States.
Schullte still faces trial separately on the pornography charges.
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Apex Publications seeks submissions for Undead: A Poetry Anthology of Ghouls, Ghosts, and More. Editors Bianca Lynne Spriggs (Apex Magazine's poetry editor) and Katerina Stoykova-Klemer welcome your specters, apparitions, zombies, wraiths, phantoms, thought forms and anything (or anyone) animate but no longer living. Email 1-3 poems to undeadpoetryanthology@gmail.com by April 1st, 2016. Previously published work is eligible, as long as you own the rights.
Payment is $5 per poem and one comp of the anthology.
We're still set on publishing it late this Fall.
Hi Jason, are there still responses pending for this or should I take silence as a no?
Greetings Poets! If you submitted your poem to the Undead anthology, we are currently going through submissions now. We were so pleased to see so many caliber poems and in order to make sure everyone gets a fair shake, we are not rushing the selection process. Thank you in advance for your patience. We hope to send word one way or another in August.
Have all of the selections been made? I haven't heard back on my submission, so does that mean it's a no or are you still going through them?
You can email Bianca Spriggs to find out the status.


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Q: mouseup event alpine js Is there any mouseup event in alpinejs?
@click.away is not suitable, because you actually need to click somewhere else.
And in my case one event should be triggered when button is pressed and another when mousekey is released no matter where courser is.
Update:
Right now I have this code:

            <button
            @click=" buttonPresed = true "
            class="h-10 w-40 border rounded-lg bg-white text-black font-bold">Some Button</button>

Button pressed

Text "Button pressed" is shown after the button is pressed.
I need it to be hided (buttonPresed=false) when mouse button is released.
So text is only shown when user's finger on the mouse button.
How can I do this?

A: You can use any DOM events with Alpine.js's x-on:[event-name] or @[event-name] in this case x-on:mouseup="console.log($event)" or @mouseup="console.log($event)" will log the mouseup event when it's triggered.

A: Even though @Hugo partly answered my question I decided to write a complete answer.

            <button
            x-on:mouseup="buttonPresed=false"
            x-on:mousedown="buttonPresed = true"
            {{-- don't use!!!!!: @click=" buttonPresed = true "  --}}
            class="h-10 w-40 border rounded-lg bg-white text-black font-bold">Some Button</button>

Button pressed

The commented part is very important, because the functionality works how it should work only if both events triggered with "x-on".