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Peter Rosenthal
Queens College of City University of NY
B.S. Mathematics, 1962
MA Mathematics, 1963
Ph.D. Mathematics, 1967
From childhood to the present, I have always found mathematics to be the most beautiful of subjects: the elegance of the nicest proofs (such as that of the infinitude of the primes) impresses me more than any other art. This is the reason I studied and continue to study mathematics, although I now also have a second career.
In 1969 I was a young Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Toronto. The war in Vietnam was raging, and there were frequent protest demonstrations in front of the U.S. Consulate. I was giving a speech at one such when the police told me to stop. I kept speaking. The head of the riot squad told me he would arrest me if I continued. I did, and he did. I was charged with two minor but criminal offences, as were the several people who valiently picked up the bullhorn and tried to continue the rally after I was arrested.
Upon reflection I realized that it would be a drag to have a criminal record, so I worked hard preparing my trial with a lawyer. When my lawyer and I disagreed about trial tactics, I fired him and represented myself (with the judge emphasizing that I had a fool for a client). I was acquitted of one charge and convicted of the other at trial; on appeal I was acquitted of the second charge as well.
In the course of representing myself I learned a bit about criminal law and procedure. Over the next twenty years I represented many demonstrators for various good (in my definition that means "leftist") causes. I was a paralegal, with no training but lots of enthusiasm. On several occasions I was frustrated by my lack of a degree in law. For example, as a non-lawyer I couldn't appear in appellate courts (representing anyone other than myself), and I also couldn't represent people charged with more serious offences.
Therefore in middle age I decided to go to law school. After torturous negotiations, the University administration agreed that I could do so while remaining a math professor if I taught the normal teaching load (but was allowed to have my classes in summers and evenings) and maintained my research and supervision of graduate students. However, I would get sabbatical (82%) pay rather than full pay. (Some people think I got a good deal, some think the administration got the better of me; maybe it was actually quite reasonable.)
It was interesting becoming a student again. After I had taken my final oral examination on my Ph.D. thesis I had vowed I'd never take any other test. This vow was quickly forgotten in law school. I have since advocated forcing professors to, say once every five years, take a course outside their area of expertise and get graded on it - this might produce a little more sympathy for students.
Anyway, I got through law school(and even enjoyed it a bit) while continuing mathematical teaching and research, and was called to the bar of Ontario in 1992. Now there are no formal restrictions on my legal practice and I take more cases than I really want. Most of the cases are still representing protestors of one kind or another, and most of the cases cost rather than earn money. But I get a lot of satisfaction from contributing in that way to causes I believe in.
I still do research (in the theory of operators on Hilbert space) and teach mathematics. My legal and mathematical lives are generally as distinct as Dr. Jeykel's and Mr. Hyde's.
When I was in law school, the dean introduced me to a visiting professor by saying to him "You might like to meet Peter Rosenthal, he's a professor of mathematics as well as a student in the Faculty of Law."
"That's very interesting," the visiting professor said, "what do you think about the relationship between mathematics and law?" "I don't see much relation," I replied. "Well," he said,"Kant wrote that the only two true sciences are mathematics and law." "He was right about mathematics," I answered.
And I still think that that is so. Law sometimes makes a pretense of being logical, but it is only a pretense.
There have been a few times when being a mathematician helped me with law. One such time was reported by Ed Barbeau in his "Fallacies, Flaws, and Flimflam" column in the College Mathematics Journal volume 28, in November 1997 on page 377. On another occasion, my being a mathematician gave me the courage to really probe an "expert" witness who claimed that the "flexion" of a graph proved my client was guilty. Although the expert first claimed that the definition of "flexion" was too complicated for the court to understand, cross-examination revealed that the "expert" had no real definition in mind. We won the case. Such instances are rare, however. Generally, mathematics and law are very separate (sometimes competing) parts of my life. They each provide great satisfaction, and some tension and unpleasantness. I'm glad I make a living as a math professor: I would not enjoy having to take legal cases I didn't believe in just because I needed the money. Fermat, on the other hand, made a living as a lawyer and did mathematics as an amateur. I know that his mathematics was much better than mine; I wonder if I'm as good a lawyer as he was?
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2013 04-24 State's RESPONSE to Petition for Writ of Certiorari
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"It is absolutely reprehensible that a high-ranking member of the Port Canaveral Police, sworn to protect and serve Floridians, would use the image of a dead child as target practice. Such a deliberate and depraved indifference to this grieving family is unacceptable. The citizens of Port Canaveral deserve better."
4/12/2013 Motion to Determine Confidentiality of Court Records in Opposition to Defendant's Motion to Unseal
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Statement From Trayvon Martin's Family and Their Attorneys
One year ago today, the State of Florida decided that there was evidence to charge George Zimmerman for second-degree murder for profiling, pursuing, and killing our unarmed teenage son. The facts of this case are simple and straightforward. We are confident that a jury following the overwhelming evidence against George Zimmerman will hold him accountable for killing our son, Trayvon Martin.
For the Zimmerman family to allege that the justice system doesn't work, simply because they are unhappy their son was arrested in the first place, is disingenuous and disrespectful to the very system that is currently affording him every available opportunity to defend himself. The arrest of an admitted killer is not a violation of due process, it is due process. Most will agree that no one has been given greater consideration by the justice system for killing an unarmed child, than George Zimmerman.
We continue to pray that our son's death will serve as a catalyst in preventing other senseless acts of gun violence.

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Sheriff's investigating use of force at Alcovy High School
By Alexa Liacko, FOX 5 News
Video Posted Dec 16 2018 11:21PM EST
COVINGTON, Ga. (FOX 5 Atlanta) - The Newton County Sheriff's Office is investigating a use of force incident at Alcovy High School involving several students taking candy out of a vending machine. School Resource Officers responded to stop the students from getting the candy, and a physical interaction occurred.
The encounter happened Thursday morning while students were changing classes. Newton County Sheriff's said the door to a vending machine was left open and students were rushing to steal candy.
Officers say teachers tried to stop the students, but the students kept pushing in. School Resource Officers heard the commotion and responded.
One student took a video of that response and shared it with FOX 5. It shows the deputies making physical contact with at least one student--forcing him to the ground.
FOX 5 spoke with that student, 14-year-old Asah Glenn, and his mother. They are being represented by Attorneys Maluwi Davis and Harold Spence who say the use of force, in this case, was excessive and unwarranted.
"I was scared for my life," said ninth-grader Asah Glenn. "It was two armed deputy sheriffs and a coach that tackled me over the Snickers, and I was scared," said Glenn.
Attorney Davis says the video proves Glenn's claim. "He's totally compliant, he's not resisting, yet they grab him by his throat, lift him into the air, slam him into the wall and then on the ground," said Davis.
Glenn said he didn't try to run away with the candy. "When I had the Snickers in my hand, I saw the coach in my peripheral vision, so I dropped the Snickers bar, and that's when they used force on me," Glenn said.
The sheriff's office confirms another student was pepper-sprayed during the encounter, but they tell FOX 5 there was no evidence of officers choking or body slamming students. Glenn's lawyers say that's not true--these students were mistreated.
"He's a ninth grader," said Davis. "They goof off, they make dumb decisions, but nothing that would warrant the level of violence you see in this video," he said.
The Newton County School System responded to the incident with this statement:
"In addition to possible legal charges, students involved in the theft will be disciplined for violating the student code of conduct. We are aware of the student's allegation and have forwarded the information to the Newton County Sheriff's Office for review."
Glenn is facing charges for theft by taking and disorderly conduct. He is suspended for three days. Two other students, 14 and 15-years-old, are also charged with theft. The 15-year-old student is additionally being charged for disorderly conduct, disruption of a public school and obstruction.
The Newton County Sheriff's Office says it has already launched a use-of-force investigation into this incident.
71-year-old attacked at Lawrenceville Walmart
By Portia Bruner, FOX 5 News
Lawrenceville police issued a BOLO late Tuesday afternoon for a woman they say is responsible for punching a 71-year-old Lawrenceville woman inside a Walmart on June 29.
The victim asked FOX 5 News not to show her face, but she was willing to share a photo of the black eye she suffered after she was inside the Lawrenceville Highway. She said it started when she and another woman narrowly avoided bumping carts in aisle 11 as they tried to pass one another.
"She said says, 'Excuse me!' And came all of the MFs and B words and I told her to watch her mouth and that's when she hold-off and slammed her fist into my face," the woman told FOX 5's Portia Bruner.
She was still in the crosswalk when the light changed.
In a remarkable political repudiation, the Democratic-led House voted Tuesday night to condemn President Donald Trump's "racist comments" against four congresswomen of color, despite protestations by Trump's Republican congressional allies and his own insistence he hasn't "a racist bone in my body."
Two days after Trump tweeted that four Democratic freshmen should "go back" to their home countries -- though all are citizens and three were born in the U.S.A. -- Democrats muscled the resolution through the chamber by 240-187 over strong GOP opposition. The rebuke was an embarrassing one for Trump, and he had appealed to GOP lawmakers not to go along, but there were four Republican votes for the resolution.
The measure carries no legal repercussions for the president and the vote was highly partisan, unlikely to cost him with his die-hard conservative base.


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Music. Community. Culture.
Sounds Like San Diego: July 31
Killer shows all over San Diego
By Rosemary Bystrak	• Published at 12:34 am on July 31, 2016
Look, I know technically Sunday night is a school night, but it's summer and rules are meant to be broken, especially when you have such amazing options for live music. Head up to the Belly Up to catch HoneyHoney, who, despite being an L.A. band, are loved in San Diego as if they're our own. Meanwhile, HONNE makes their San Diego debut with a sold-out show at the Casbah. And last mention here, but definitely not least, C.W. Stoneking makes his San Diego debut at Soda Bar. The Aussie troubadour is being compared to Tom Waits, which isn't a comparison writers just throw around willy-nilly, so you might want to check out his throwback style at this show people are sure to be talking about for a while.
An earlier version of this article mentioned Duran Duran. That show is actually on Tuesday, August 2. We regret the error --Ed.
Sunday, July 31:
KBZT presents HONNE @ Casbah (sold out)
HoneyHoney, Korey Dane @ Belly Up
C.W. Stoneking, Miss Erika Davies, Stephen El Rey @ Soda Bar
San Diego Gay Men's Chorus: Thriller, the Music of Michael Jackson @ Balboa Theatre
Joshua Powell & the Great Train Robbery @ Winston's (5:30 p.m.)
Nicky Jam, Zion, De La Ghetto, Valentino, Alx Veliz @ Viejas Arena
Summer Festival with Gustavo Romero @ The Auditorium at TSRI
The Hit Men @ Sycuan Casino
Colour @ Tio Leo's
Joshua Powell & the Great Train Robbery, Podunk Nowhere @ Sycamore Den
Ben Shannon, Cat Terrones @ Lestat's
Dave Good's Jazz Jam @ Java Joe's (2 p.m.)
Burlesque Sunday Tease @ The Merrow
Jason Brown @ Humphreys Backstage Live (10 a.m.)
Tre'sure @ Humphreys Backstage Live (8 p.m.)
A Funk Affair with Brian Ellis @ Kava Lounge
Reggae Sunday @ Spin
Rosemary Bystrak is the publicist for the Casbah, the content manager for DoSD, and writes about the San Diego music scene, events and general musings about life in San Diego on San Diego: Dialed In. Follow her updates on Twitter or contact her directly.


David Wongk from Pure Tropix shares what he did to grow his skincare business. He also shares why so many entrepreneurs haven't seen the level of success that he has.
After his bi-weekly hair cut David noticed he would develop in grown hairs and none of the products on the market helped him solve this problem. He decided to try to make a solution of his own and what he discovered not only solved his problem but has become the solution for many people around the world thanks to the skin care business David founded called Pure Tropix. During our interview David shared his best strategies that helped him learned an industry he had no prior experience with and build a success business while doing so.


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Keeping things simple sounds easy but we know it is easier said than done, but Susan Boddy's well prepared and informative demonstration showed how the use of a limited pallet and using a full range of tones can lead to success.
Susan worked her way through three paintings. The first used one colour, the second used two colours, and the third used three colours. The results are below and we thank her for an informative and very enjoyable session with us.
See more of Susan's work by following the link to visiting artists found on the right hand side.


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For the third year in a row, MountainWest Capital Network has recognized Osmond Marketing as one of the fastest-growing businesses in its annual Utah 100 Awards Program. The company ranked 14th, selected from thousands of applicants throughout the state across all industries.
MountainWest Capital Network selected this year's award recipients based on their percentage of revenue increase between 2013 and 2017. In those four years, Osmond Marketing had revenue growth of 1,506 percent. It ranked 20th in 2017 based on 1,168 percent growth between 2012 and 2016, and 28th in 2016 based on nearly 800 percent revenue growth between 2011 and 2015. The company's 14th-place ranking is evidence of its continued and increasing growth.
Founded by Amy Osmond Cook, Ph.D., in 2009, Osmond Marketing is a full-service agency offering public relations, content production, design, web services and more for businesses and organizations of all sizes.
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UConn Women's Basketball
UConn WBB Weekly: Azzi Fudd flashes tantalizing potential in unexpected return at DePaul
The freshman wasn't even supposed to suit up Wednesday but ended up playing a major role in the Huskies' victory.
By Daniel Connolly@DanielVConnolly Jan 28, 2022, 5:05pm EST
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Williams in protocol is the latest gut punch for snakebitten Huskies
UConn dropped to No. 10 in the latest AP Poll while Oregon entered at No. 25.
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Virginia announces the addition of transfer Mir McLean — The former UConn forward received a waiver to play immediately and finished with 11 points and nine rebounds in her first game with UVA.
Azzi Fudd flashes tantalizing potential in unexpected return at DePaul
One day before UConn's meeting with DePaul on Wednesday, Geno Auriemma said in no uncertain terms that Azzi Fudd wouldn't play due to the stress reaction in her foot that had kept her out for 11 games.
"She's still not ready to go," he said of Fudd. "It's been a long time since she's played basketball and it's gonna take a little bit to get back into playing shape. She was out there working on some stuff yesterday and she's going to work out a little bit more today and better build on it every day, I hope."
But by the time tip-off approached, the situation changed. Auriemma told SNY he hoped to get her "a few minutes" against DePaul. So what happened between Thursday and Friday? The coach's initial comments seemed to indicate that Fudd's foot was better but she just needed to get her conditioning back. But after moving around before the game, the freshman felt good enough to give it a shot.
"I decided after shoot-around that I was gonna play and I'm really glad I did," Fudd told reporters postgame. "It was a lot of fun. Way better than sitting on the side and watching."
At first, her unexpected return didn't look like it'd be anything to remember. Fudd checked in at the 4:11 mark of the first half, immediately traveled and went back to the bench after just over two minutes.
Luckily for UConn, that wasn't the end of her night. Fudd played 22 minutes total and racked up 15 points on 6-10 shooting in her best performance as a Husky.
In her four games earlier this season, Fudd often played timid and didn't do much besides shoot 3-pointers. While the freshman was clearly hampered by the foot injury, Auriemma still felt that she passed up too many opportunities for herself and deferred to older teammates.
Even when Fudd scored a career-high 18 points against USF, it all came from the three ball. She rarely handled the ball, never tried to drive to the basket and didn't move off her spot on the perimeter much. Fudd collected just two assists and two steals in those four games as well.
Her early play ran counter to the way Auriemma spoke about her.
"She's a basketball player, flat-out," he said after the exhibition on Nov. 7. "She's not just gonna be out there knocking in a couple and then come out. She's playing the game of basketball and that's what's special about her. It's not just one dimensional."
But at DePaul, Fudd looked the part of a No. 1 recruit.
Late in the third quarter, Fudd hit a 3-pointer to tie the game at 50 and followed it up with a pull-up jumper from the free throw line to give UConn the lead. Early in the fourth, she made another jumper to put the Huskies back ahead, sunk a triple a few possessions later to extend the gap to eight points and then slashed to the rim for a layup less than a minute later.
After starting 1-5 from the field, Fudd made her next five shots — every one of which seemed to come in a big moment. In addition to the points, she also swiped three steals and added an assist.
Fudd's performance is even more impressive considering she'd barely participated any basketball related activities dating back to November before Wednesday night at DePaul.
"Morgan (Valley) was pretty impressed that not having played in seven weeks or something that, Azzi's first workout the other day — whenever it was — she made like 25 straight shots and I bet only one of them touched the rim," Auriemma said. "(Valley) was just amazed that someone who hadn't touched the ball or shot the ball live could could still shoot it like that."
For 22 minutes, Fudd flashed her tantalizing potential and her impact should only grow as she works back to full strength and gets more time on the practice court. Just her presence alone could prove to be a boost for the Huskies.
"When you add somebody like [Fudd] to the lineup, that makes a lot of people feel a lot more confident," Auriemma said. "Especially me."
Fudd's instant impact combined with Caroline Ducharme becoming the team's go-to scorer, Christyn Williams playing some of her best basketball, Nika Mühl finally back and Paige Bueckers still waiting in the wings, UConn's depth — one of the main storylines from the preseason — is finally beginning to materialize.
Best of social media
Aubrey Griffin surprised the team before the St. John's game:
We got Aubrey back! pic.twitter.com/xeezGUw6EW
— UConn Women's Basketball (@UConnWBB) January 23, 2022
Just a bit wrong...
Geno said he asked the team recently who Winston Churchill was. One player raised their hand.
"The president."
Geno: The president of what?
"Of the United States."
— Daniel Connolly (@DanielVConnolly) January 23, 2022
Paige Bueckers still provides plenty of entertainment from the bench:
ℙ ℍ @UConnWBB x #BIGEASTwbb pic.twitter.com/lhEFdY6Tw0
— BIG EAST WBB (@BIGEASTWBB) January 23, 2022
Evina Westbrook signs with an agency:
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— Khristina Williams (@Khristina) January 24, 2022
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UConn men's basketball drops to No. 24 in AP Poll The Huskies remain ranked despite last week's loss to Xavier.


Meet Tere. She just wrapped up a film called "The Deal" and if you were at SUndance, you probably saw the movie or caught a glimpse of her partying with the stars.
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August 1, 2014 Episodes
Episode 264: Margaret Atwood, Tim Gunn, and Hulk Hogan: Hero
This week: literary giant Margaret Atwood is prepared for giant bears… Tim Gunn returns, just in time for Project Runway's 13th season debut, to save listeners from the 'comfort trap'… Guitarist Steve Gunn (no relation to Tim, as far as we know) spins a mellow party playlist… The author behind the bestselling "Jack Reacher" series lists toughs he loves… "China, Illinois" Animator Brad Neely wants Hulk Hogan to eat him… The tale of one man's flight(s) to settle a bar bet… And we meet Rihanna, P.I. Plus: Rico tastes a bowlful of sweet, savory surrealism.
"Canadian Sex" – Margaret Atwood
Rihanna, Crime Solver
Marah Eakin, music editor of The A.V. Club, tips us off to a crime story from her pop-music beat - a minor scandal involving R&B star Rihanna, a selfie, some shady Thai gentlemen, and the cute (and legally protected) mammal known as the slow loris.
A Drunken Bet Leads to an Airborne Stunt
A History Lesson With Booze ®
In 1956, someone bet New Jersey resident Thomas Fitzpatrick that he couldn't get to Washington Heights in Manhattan in fifteen minutes. He took drastic measures to prove his drinking buddy wrong. Twice.
Tough-as-Nails Heroes from Lee Child
With the *eighteenth* installment in the best-selling "Jack Reacher" thriller series hitting bookshelves this month, we asked the author to list a few fictional tough-guys who inspired his protagonist.
Style Advice and Shocking Revelations from Tim Gunn
The emmy-winning "Project Runway" host, author, and educator ad-dresses issues of accessorizing and fashion victimhood, then reveals a surprising "don't" he almost did.
Dessert Chefs Take on Dinner
There's a growing trend across the country of pastry chefs striking out on their own to helm full restaurants. We caught up with Jordan Khan of Red Medicine to learn how dessert techniques inform all his dishes.
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Eavesdropping
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Shocking! Woman Hits 7-year-old Housemaid With Pestle, Douses Her With Hot Water When She Fainted
According to a report by SaharaReporters, a Nigerian woman who has been simply identified as Uchenna, has allegedly molested a 7-year-old girl, Ifebuche Okoro, who served as her housemaid for one month in Nnewi, Anambra State.
In a report sent to SaharaReporters by one Gozz Carl Chigbata, the 7-year-old girl sustained injuries all over her body due to the physical assault she suffered from Uchenna.
Okoro, the victim, alleged that Uchenna hit her in the face several times with a broom and that she suffered swollen eyes.
She also said her right wrist and palm got swollen when Uchenna asked her to put her hand on a table and then proceeded to hit her with a pestle.
The young girl, who sustained burns on her back, also alleged that Uchenna poured hot water on her when she fainted.
Chigbata said, "A 7-year-old female, accompanied by her elder sister, Miss Chioma Okoro, came to my hospital on 25/01/2021 with multiple injuries and scars all over her body.
"She was taken to live with Mrs. Uchenna by her aunt, also named Mrs. Uchenna Ikpe, who is not her biological aunt but just from the same village as the victim.
"Her right wrist and palm were swollen when Mrs. Uchenna asked her to put her hand on a table and then proceeded to hit her with a pestle (akuodo).
"There are numerous marks all over her body which show that Uchenna allegedly flogged her on numerous occasions with mainly a metal hanger and wire.
"Her entire head area was very sore to touch with multiple swellings and scars also sustained at the hands of Uchenna during several incidents of assault.
"The worst of the injuries is a wide burn mark on her back which she allegedly sustained when Uchenna poured boiling water on her because she fainted. The fainting was likely due to starvation and dehydration as Miss Ifebuche claimed she was often deprived of food and water.
"Mrs. Uchenna only called Miss Ifebuche's aunty to come and take Ifebuche seven days after the burns injury with no medical treatment.
"On further questioning, it was revealed that the victim's mother is divorced and that the father doesn't care about the welfare of his wife and children.
The victim's mother, who is a small-scale farmer in Enugu State, can't afford to transport herself to Nnewi where the incident happened.
"Also the victim's aunt, Uchenna Ikpe, with who Miss Ifebuche and her elder sister, Chioma, were living, have instructed the victim and her elder sister not to bring any attention to the matter with a threat that they will be evicted from her house.
"She has fulfilled her threat and evicted them after I reported the matter to human rights NGO and they consequently now reside in the hospital."
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Taiwan: Peace Initiative to Resolve Dispute in South China Sea
President Ma Ying-jeou proposed on 25 May 2015 a Peace Initiative to resolve the territorial dispute in the South China Sea, through which $5 trillion in ship-borne trade passes every year. The maritime region has multiple overlapping claims from China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei. President Ma has reinforced the urge for a peaceful resolution before a major conflict breaks out.
Below is an article published by Reuters
Taiwan proposed a peace initiative on Tuesday to resolve territorial disputes in the South China Sea that it says will reduce tensions that have put Beijing at odds with its neighbors and the United States.
The South China Sea Peace Initiative announced by President Ma Ying-jeou called on claimants to temporarily shelve their disagreements to enable negotiations on sharing resources.
Ma's plan is similar to a 2012 proposal for the East China Sea, which allowed Taiwan and Japan to jointly fish in the contested waters.
However it appeared unlikely the plan would be accepted by China, which claims most of the South China Sea and has rebuffed earlier attempts at multilateral negotiations.
"We believe Chinese people on both sides of the Strait have a duty to jointly protect China's territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests and safeguard the stability of the South China Sea region," said Hua Chunying, a spokeswoman for China's Foreign Ministry, when asked about the plan on Tuesday.
China views self-governed Taiwan as a renegade province. Taiwan has so far played a marginal role in disputes between China and its neighbors in the South China Sea, through which $5 trillion in ship-borne trade passes every year. China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei all have overlapping claims in the South China Sea. China said on Monday it had lodged a complaint with the United States over a U.S. spy plane that flew over parts of the disputed sea.
Ma's remarks in a keynote speech at an international law conference in Taipei were the most public comments by Taiwan since the United States, its biggest ally, raised concerns over the speed and breadth of China's land reclamation in the area.
"We demand that freedom of navigation and overflight be respected in the South China Sea," said Ma, who urged a peaceful resolution "before a major conflict breaks out".
Taiwan normally maintains a low-key approach to such issues but has coast guard and military facilities in the area, including an airstrip and soon-to-be-completed port on Taiping Island, also known as Itu Abu, the largest natural land mass in the disputed Spratlys archipelago.
"I believe the mainland side understands the spirit and principle of our South China Sea peace initiative," Taiwan Foreign Minister David Lin told reporters after Ma's speech.
The rival claims by Taiwan and China go back to before they split in a civil war in 1949 after the defeated Nationalists fled to the island from the Communists.
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The star was told that to take your age she was not easy, since she feels much younger. Also in her confession, now the business model isn't what was in her youth.
"I was difficult for self-awareness a 50 year old. I used to be 20-year-old model on the cover of Vogue, and now my daughter has become. Don't want to waste your current time and energy trying to get back to where I was over thirty. Yeah, maybe I would like to skin and waist has not changed. I worked a lot to become of who you are," he told Cindy.
Recall that Crawford has two children, a son and a daughter who decided to repeat the fate of his mother and became a model.


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The E3 ubiquitin ligase HOS1 regulates low ambient temperature-responsive flowering in arabidopsis thaliana
Jeong Hwan Lee, Jae Joon Kim, Soo Hyun Kim, Hyun Jung Cho, Joonki Kim, Ji Hoon Ahn
Ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis regulates multiple aspects of plant growth and development, but little is known about its role in ambient temperature-responsive flowering. In addition to being regulated by daylength, the onset of flowering in many plants can also be delayed by low ambient temperatures. Here, we show that HIGH EXPRESSION OF OSMOTICALLY RESPONSIVE GENES 1 (HOS1), which encodes an E3 ubiquitin ligase, controls flowering time in response to ambient temperatures (16 and 23°C) and intermittent cold. hos1 mutants flowered early, and were insensitive to ambient temperature, but responded normally to vernalization and gibberellic acid. Genetic analyses suggested that this ambient temperature-insensitive flowering was independent of FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC). Also, FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT) and TWIN SISTER OF FT (TSF) expression was up-regulated in hos1 mutants at both temperatures. The ft tsf mutation almost completely suppressed the early flowering of hos1 mutants at different temperatures, suggesting that FT and TSF are downstream of HOS1 in the ambient temperature response. A lesion in CONSTANS (CO) did not affect the ambient temperature-insensitive flowering phenotype of hos1-3 mutants. In silico analysis showed that FVE was spatiotemporally co-expressed with HOS1. A HOS1-green fluorescent protein (GFP) fusion co-localized with FVE-GFP in the nucleus at both 16 and 23°C. HOS1 physically interacted with FVE and FLK in yeast two-hybrid and co-immunoprecipitation assays. Moreover, hos1 mutants were insensitive to intermittent cold. Collectively, our results suggest that HOS1 acts as a common regulator in the signaling pathways that control flowering time in response to low ambient temperature.
Plant and Cell Physiology
https://doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcs123
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HOS1
Intermittent cold
10.1093/pcp/pcs123
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Lee, J. H., Kim, J. J., Kim, S. H., Cho, H. J., Kim, J., & Ahn, J. H. (2012). The E3 ubiquitin ligase HOS1 regulates low ambient temperature-responsive flowering in arabidopsis thaliana. Plant and Cell Physiology, 53(10), 1802-1814. https://doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcs123
The E3 ubiquitin ligase HOS1 regulates low ambient temperature-responsive flowering in arabidopsis thaliana. / Lee, Jeong Hwan; Kim, Jae Joon; Kim, Soo Hyun; Cho, Hyun Jung; Kim, Joonki; Ahn, Ji Hoon.
In: Plant and Cell Physiology, Vol. 53, No. 10, 10.2012, p. 1802-1814.
Lee, JH, Kim, JJ, Kim, SH, Cho, HJ, Kim, J & Ahn, JH 2012, 'The E3 ubiquitin ligase HOS1 regulates low ambient temperature-responsive flowering in arabidopsis thaliana', Plant and Cell Physiology, vol. 53, no. 10, pp. 1802-1814. https://doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcs123
Lee JH, Kim JJ, Kim SH, Cho HJ, Kim J, Ahn JH. The E3 ubiquitin ligase HOS1 regulates low ambient temperature-responsive flowering in arabidopsis thaliana. Plant and Cell Physiology. 2012 Oct;53(10):1802-1814. https://doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcs123
Lee, Jeong Hwan ; Kim, Jae Joon ; Kim, Soo Hyun ; Cho, Hyun Jung ; Kim, Joonki ; Ahn, Ji Hoon. / The E3 ubiquitin ligase HOS1 regulates low ambient temperature-responsive flowering in arabidopsis thaliana. In: Plant and Cell Physiology. 2012 ; Vol. 53, No. 10. pp. 1802-1814.
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There is a strong possibility that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is in Beijing, an official with deep knowledge of North Korea told CNN.
The visit comes weeks before Kim's planned summit with South Korean President Moon Jae-in and a potential meeting with US President Donald Trump.
Heavy security in Beijing and the presence of what appears to be a train that belongs to North Korea's ruling Kim family had been fueling speculation that Kim, or another high-level representative from Pyongyang, was in the Chinese capital for talks.
A large security presence remains outside the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, where North Korean leaders have previously stayed. Police ordered a CNN crew to leave the area just minutes after they arrived early Tuesday morning.
China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Monday it was "not aware of the situation" when asked whether a North Korean official had arrived in the country.
Traffic in parts of the city was brought to a standstill, with roads closed near Diaoyutai in western Beijing and south of Tiananmen Square.
The guesthouse was commonly used as a venue for six-party talks, the George W. Bush-era negotiations that ultimately failed to convince North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons.
Parts of the Temple of Heaven, a complex founded in the 15th Century that's now a UNESCO World Heritage site, was closed at about 10 a.m. when a motorcade entered the premises, staff and tourists said.
Images of an old-style green train car that pulled into Beijing began circulating online Monday evening local time, prompting speculation that the North Korean leader or another high-level representative from Pyongyang could be in the Chinese capital.
The train car is said to resemble one that has transported North Korea's leaders on foreign trips.
"This caught us all by surprise," said Curtis Melvin, an analyst at Johns Hopkins University's US-Korea Institute.
Melvin runs the website North Korea Economy Watch, which tracks the hermit state's economy and development, using satellite imagery and other tools.
"As far as I am aware, this train has not traveled to China since Kim Jong Un took over," Melvin told CNN in an email.
The news of the proposed Trump-Kim summit broke after a high-ranking South Korean delegation traveled to Pyongyang and met with the North Korean leader.
The source with deep knowledge of North Korea told CNN envoys from Seoul implored Kim to meet with Trump. Kim verbally agreed, but didn't think it would be publicized or happen so soon, and was even more surprised that the United States and South Korea made a big announcement.
Kim has not met any foreign heads of state since succeeding his father as North Korean leader in late 2011. Relations with China, a traditional ally, have been strained after Kim purged several top-ranking officials close to Beijing, including his uncle, Jang Song Thaek.
China accounts for nearly 90% of North Korea's imports and has come under US pressure to use its trade relationship to influence Pyongyang. China has voted in favor of multiple rounds of United Nations sanctions passed last year.
Michael Madden, an expert in North Korean leadership, told CNN that only Kim family members would likely travel by that particular train car.
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Kim Yo Jong last left North Korea to attend the Winter Games in Pyeongchang in February, when she twice shook hands with South Korea's Moon, and passed him a personal invitation to visit Pyongyang.
The approach led to plans for a summit between Moon and Kim, expected to be held in late April. Kim Jong Un later invited Trump to meet, an invitation that was unexpectedly accepted.
The South Korean government also said it couldn't confirm whether the North Korean leader was in Beijing. If he is, Moon's administration said it would be positive sign that shows ties between Pyongyang and Beijing are improving, a senior official with the Blue House — South Korea's equivalent of the White House — told reporters.
He added that the White House was "looking forward to a potential summit some months in advance." The Trump administration previously said they would attempt to arrange the meeting with Kim by the end of May.
The most recent trip was in August 2011, months before Kim Jong Il's death, when he visited Moscow to meet with then President Dmitry Medvedev.
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During dinners that stretched for four hours or more, guests and conductors sang Russian and Korean propaganda songs, Pulikovsky wrote in his memoirs.
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Q: VBS in HTA Do and Loop I have the below VB which works but I would like it to work in a HTA.
I cant seem to get it to carry out the loop section any ideas would be appreciated.
The script is used to write labels in ZPL with a StartNumber and EndNumber and the range between will print out on labels.
 'Wscript.Echo ZPLText
 ObjZebra.Write(ZPLText)

'Loop Counter

 StartNumber = StartNumber + 1

'Loop Condition

Loop Until StartNumber > 0 + EndNumber

 Wscript.sleep 500
 objZebra.Close
 Set objZebra = Nothing
End If
End If
Loop

End Function

A: Your code is still ill formatted. And it doesn't use proper syntax either.
I suggest you get a copy of script56.chm contained in scrdocen.exe (as long it is possible). and look at the do .. loop :
Repeats a block of statements while a condition is True or until a condition becomes True.
Do [{While | Until} condition]
   [statements]
   [Exit Do]
   [statements]
Loop

Or, you can use this syntax:
Do
   [statements]
   [Exit Do]
   [statements]
Loop [{While | Until} condition]

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The video tutorial I did yesterday on the FSDeveloper LiveStream channel about performance related issues for 3D models, is now available on the FSDeveloper Wiki as well. I hope you enjoy the tutorial and that the explanations make things a bit clearer to you.
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Forums Technical Discussion How to use scipy with Houdini 17 on windows?
How to use scipy with Houdini 17 on windows?
Oct. 12, 2018 4:47 p.m.
However, this trick does not work anymore. I really need it for my work.
Overwriting too many files using the anaconda distribution gets Houdini stuck at startup.
Copying only the scipy and/or numpy packages into C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 17.0.352\python27\lib\site-packages results in errors at the node.
When overwriting the C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 17.0.352\python27\dlls with the anaconda distribution, _ctypes.pyd and _socket.pyd seem to cause errors at startup.
I hope that someone here has more knowledge on setting up python libraries and can help out.
Has anyone managed to use scipy in Houdini and can please share how to do that here?
I will update the above website with that information.
Oct. 18, 2018 10:43 a.m.
Oct. 18, 2018 2:17 p.m.
Nov. 5, 2018 6:53 a.m.
Yes you might be right and I wish I could try it out.
According to this site https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/building/windows.html [docs.scipy.org] I need to go through several steps in order to try it. I have not worked with Visual Studio yet. Has anyone tried this successfully?
Nov. 12, 2018 11 a.m.
Nov. 12, 2018 11:23 a.m.
Me too. Scipy on Houdini 17 also did not work on my opensuse but I did not experiment enough why.
I just made the rfe too.
Nov. 12, 2018 12:18 p.m.
Nov. 12, 2018 12:30 p.m.
Nov. 12, 2018 12:39 p.m.
Dec. 16, 2018 3:34 p.m.
It's actually of major importance for us as well.
Dec. 16, 2018 3:53 p.m.
No sorry still no news. We just keep using 16.5 and hope for change.
April 8, 2019 8:02 a.m.
placing the_ctypes.pyd into that folder makes Houdini not start up anymore.
What now? Can anyone help out? Especially if you have windows, please write us if anything worked for you.
April 17, 2019 8:04 a.m.
So whatever you want to add to Houdini on Windows needs to be compiled with the same version ( MSC v.1916 ). Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find any scipy binaries compiled with this particular compiler for python 2.7. So I guess if you don't want to compile it yourself, and sesi cannot do that for you, it might challenging to get it to work.
Depending on your usecase there might be certain workarounds possible. But all of them are not ideal.
Please let me know if you find any solution working for you.
April 17, 2019 9:35 a.m.


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1. Will an Islamic Republic Genie Jump out of the Iraqi Bottle?
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The United States is still haunted by the memory of how the newly-established Islamic Republic of Iran under its revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini interfered in the 1980 US presidential election – and effectively cost Jimmy Carter a second term – by delaying the release of US hostages seized in the American embassy in Tehran until Ronald Reagan's inauguration.
Today, a public debate is bedeviling the Bush administration over whether the current occupant of the White House helped establish another fundamentalist Shiite regime in the Middle East, this time by fostering Iraq's first free elections.
America has stumbled before in rushing to promote regime change in a troubled region. The Taliban was fostered to boot the Red Army out of Afghanistan. Later, these fundamentalists became a key factor in al Qaeda's September 11, 2001 attacks in New York in Washington and were subsequently booted out themselves in a second regime change in Kabul.
According to DEBKA-Net-Weekly's sources in Washington, new secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, before taking off for Europe and the Middle East last week, instructed aides to commission briefs from academic experts in the United States, Europe and Israel, evaluating the prospects of Iraq turning into a fundamentalist Shiite republic.
On her return to Foggy Bottom, she will find their consensus on at least one issue: there is no chance of a Shiite takeover in Iraq that might generate an alliance with Iran and Syria and threaten Middle East peace and the Sunni Muslim hegemony in the region. They all warn, however, that the situation is in flux and the months or years ahead may hold change.
The experts expanded on several other points, many of which home in on the commonly-held prime factor in all their equations, 75-year-old Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the most revered Shiite cleric in Iraq today.
Islam, yes; theocracy, no
They do not see Iraq becoming a theocracy. Still, while Sistani is no Khomeini Mark 2, his perception of the separation of religion and state is far removed from the Western model.
He sees the country's constitution being framed by representatives of the grand ayatollahs to ascertain Iraq's Islamic identity. The men of religion will bar secular laws contradicting the Sharia – Islamic law, and make sure religious tradition supercedes personal status provisions such as women's rights and the division of family property.
This is arguably the end stage of the master plan Sistani set in motion after the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. He vocally demanded speedy national elections, egging his followers on to hold mass protests whenever Bush shied away. He accurately predicted a sweeping victory given the Shiite community's numerical preponderance in the population. Sistani also accurately sized up the political rewards he would reap by pacifying firebrand Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. All that was left was to drive home to every Shiite that it was his religious duty to cast his ballot.
He will be just as proactive in keeping his brand of Islam strong in Iraq, even to riding roughshod over rival Sunni and Kurdish ethnic-religious groups who are just as anxious to preserve their respective traditions and conflicting interests.
Backed by America, the Kurds have enjoyed almost full autonomy in northern Iraq since 1991 when after the first Gulf War Saddam Hussein brutally crushed their rebellion.
An agreement in principle signed with the Shiites early last year gave the Kurds near-veto power over Iraq's key basic laws. The Shiites are constrained from declaring an independent state in Iraq partly by the knowledge that the Kurds would immediately follow suit.
The battle over the constitution has just begun
Therefore, in their reports to Rice, the experts urge Washington in the interests of checks and balance to make sure that the new Iraqi constitution guards the rights of all Iraqi minorities, including the Sunnis, Christians and Kurds, to offset the Shiites numerical weight. They also call for an effort to draft a constitution clearly separating religion and state although this task faces many difficulties.
Sistani will fight for a constitutional measure giving religious law preeminence over secular legislation. Should the Sharia be set aside, Sadr's radical following stands ready to renew its rebellion.
The academic experts' evaluations for the US secretary of state point to the "irony of history" in Washington taking advantage of Kurdish or even Sunni voting power to put a damper on Shiite hopes of establishing a quasi-Shiite government in Iraq. At the same time, Iraqi Shiites are not nearly as fervent or radical in their approach to Islam as the hardline ayatollahs of Tehran. And while most Shiites respect Sistani, and some follow Sadr, the average Shiite does not want Iraq to be an Islamic Republic.
But there is still a long way to go to stability and communal equilibrium in Iraq.
A sizeable Saddam loyalist underground will remain active in the months and years ahead to undermine the American presence and US allies in Baghdad. The Kurds may overstep agreed bounds on their autonomy and provoke a backlash from Sunni rivals and Shiite subversives. The followers of Sadr, who want to see the rise of an Islamic republic in Baghdad, carry a pamphlet penned by Sadr's mentor, Ayatollah Khadim Hussein al-Haeri which scarcely bodes still waters:
"The infidel coalition forces want to build a constitution for our dear Iraq and carry out their infidel agenda through the incumbent government. This is the most dangerous thing for Iraq and Islam. They want to change our identity, habits, morals and Islamic way of life."
Sistani has apparently been made aware of the recommendations Rice received from the experts her office consulted and the ongoing debate in Washington on Iraq's future. Tuesday, February 8, he issued a reassuringly moderate statement, saying: "The ayatollah believes the constitution should respect the Islamic cultural identity of the Iraqi people."


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Doster Wins Excellence Award for Montgomery Memorial
Thu April 18, 2019 - Southeast Edition #9
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Doster Construction of Birmingham has been awarded the National Excellence in Construction Eagle Award for its work on the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery. (Doster Construction photo)
Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) announced Doster Construction Company as the 2019 National Excellence in Construction Eagle Award winner for the National Memorial for Peace and Justice at the 29th Annual Excellence in Construction Gala on March 27 in Long Beach, Calf.
The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) opened the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in downtown Montgomery, Ala. on April 26, 2018. Doster Construction Company partnered with the EJI and helped bring its vision to reality.
The Memorial for Peace and Justice was conceived with the hope of creating a sober, meaningful site where people can gather and reflect on America's history of racial inequality. The memorial sits atop 6.5 acres and includes a 20,000-sq.-ft. open-air memorial with 1,610 corten steel monuments, a monument park and memorial garden.
"We are proud to honor Doster Construction Company with a National Excellence in Construction Eagle Award," said 2019 ABC National Chair Tony Rader, telecom vice president of National Roofing Partners, Coppell, Texas. "The National Memorial for Peace and Justice shows not only the exceptional talent in our industry, but the overall commitment to building safely, on time and on budget. Doster's breadth of skills and craftsmanship greatly benefits the merit shop construction industry."
The Excellence in Construction awards program is an industry competition that honors both general and specialty contractors for innovative and high-quality merit shop construction projects. The award honors all construction team members, including the contractor, owner, architect and engineer. The winning projects, selected from entries submitted from across the nation, were judged on complexity, attractiveness, unique challenges, completion time, workmanship, innovation, safety and cost.
A panel of industry experts served as the competition's judges. This year's panel included representatives from the Building Owners and Managers Association International, the Smithsonian Facilities Construction Division, the Construction Management Association of America, Engineering News-Record, Design-Build Institute of America and various construction-related firms nationwide.
In addition to the national ABC award, Doster also accepted awards from ABC Alabama, ABC of Greater Tennessee, and the AGC of Alabama for their work on the memorial.
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Bordering the St. Johns River and straddling Seminole and Orange counties, the Charles H. Bronson WMA occupies 11,672 acres within the Charles H. Bronson State Forest, adjacent to and south of the Little Big Econ State Forest. It is part of a network of public lands along the St. Johns River that creates a significant conservation and recreation corridor. Opened to the public in 2011, the area is named for Charles H. Bronson, a former Florida Commissioner of Agriculture.
Hydric hammock, floodplain swamp, mesic and wet flatwoods, and improved pasture are the area's primary habitats, though many other plant communities are represented here. The most notable feature is the St. Johns River on the eastern boundary. Scenic creeks wind through the property on their way to the St. Johns River. The Florida Forest Service manages the area using a combination of timber harvesting, reforestation, groundcover and hydrological restoration, and nonnative invasive species eradication. Regular controlled burns improve conditions for vegetation and wildlife. Cattle graze on portions of the area. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission administers hunting related activities. Wildlife is abundant and includes deer, turkeys, gopher tortoises, eastern indigo snakes, Sherman's fox squirrels, swallow-tailed kites, sandhill cranes, nesting bald eagles and wood storks, roseate spoonbills, limpkins and a variety of wading birds.
Visitors can enjoy hunting, horseback riding, hiking, and wildlife viewing. Camping is allowed by permit only from the Florida Forest Service. A 40-mile network of unpaved roads, as well as designated hiking and horse trails, provide short and long distance trail options. Some trail systems connect with trails in adjoining natural areas, creating additional opportunities. The Florida National Scenic Trail (FNST) traverses more than seven miles of the forest.
The forest is open for public use year-round. The Florida Forest Service charges a daily use fee; hunters are exempt during scheduled hunts and scouting days. For fees and camping permits, call (407) 971-3500. Roads are closed to vehicles except during hunting periods when hunt participants may operate vehicles. There are two designated entrances: the northern entrance is at the eastern end of Curryville Road in Seminole County (park at the Chulota Wilderness Area during non-hunting periods); the southern entrance and trailhead is at the north end of Phillips Road in Orange County.
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, (352) 732-1225; Florida Forest Service (407) 971-3500.
Visit the Florida Forest Service recreation information page.
View FWC's Hunting Regulations brochure for Charles H. Bronson WMA for an area map, hunting seasons, permits, fees and area regulations.


The quote is wrongly attributed. It was T.S. Eliot who said, "Humankind cannot stand too much reality." But the quote and the Jungian slip speak volumes about Kunstler and kindred, well-intentioned progressive authors. Like Jared Diamond's Collapse, which purports to explain why once-powerful societies are driven into extinction, and Tom Frank's What's the Matter with Kansas?, which faulted Kansans for failing to grasp their own economic self-interest, Kunstler's book contends that the ignorant masses are suffering from what the left used to call false-consciousness -- in this case, about energy consumption. For the people to be saved, they presumably must let go of their irrational consumer, religious, or ideological fantasies and start recognizing their true self-interest.
Today, with all three branches of the federal government in the hands of the radical right, environmental, liberal, and Democratic leaders continue to believe that the public is with us on the issues. "My view is that the Democrats almost won the election," Kerry media man Bob Shrum said repeatedly after Republicans both re-elected George W. Bush and increased their control of Congress. "I think what we are looking at is the rebirth of environmentalism," one environmental-group executive told The New York Times.
Explain to us again: Who can't stand too much reality?
This was certainly the case for us. Before writing "The Death of Environmentalism," the two of us had spent the bulk of our professional careers becoming increasingly irritated while executing failed environmental strategies. We went on this way for years. But eventually we were reminded of Jung's great contribution to the understanding of the human mind: that we project our inner demons onto others.
What if the problem was not that environmentalists just didn't get it? What if the problem was that we didn't get it? Maybe there was something about environmentalism (and thus ourselves) that none of us understood.
So, in the summer of 2004, we set off to find out. We proceeded to interview more than two dozen environmental leaders and funders. We read everything about global warming we could get our hands on.
By the time we were through, we had discovered that, indeed, there was more going on than met the eye. When we started our research we believed that there was something wrong strategically. What we didn't comprehend was that something might be wrong conceptually.
Treating global warming as an "environmental" problem and framing its solutions as technical, we concluded, lay at the heart of the movement's political failings.
The problem was not simply that environmentalists didn't get it. The problem was that environmentalists could never get it as long as we remained environmentalists. The way we conceptualized the problem analytically was getting in the way of what we needed to do politically.
We suspected that this finding might irritate some people. But we could no longer pretend that the problems we faced were nothing that a few more media campaigns (stopglobalwarming.com), or even a new name (sustainability), couldn't fix.
We expected controversy. What we didn't expect was that the essay would become a projection screen for the hopes and fears of the broader progressive movement. Hence our thesis: Everything that irritates you about "The Death of Environmentalism" can lead you to an understanding of yourself.
Which brings us to the first reaction, namely that the debate over environmentalism is just so much navel gazing. "We know what we need to do," this line of reasoning goes. "Let's stop all this hand-wringing and get to the hard work of politics." It reminded us of the insistence by Democratic operatives that John Kerry "almost won" the election. Whenever you hear someone begin a sentence with, "If it weren't for a few thousand votes in Ohio … ," you can be pretty sure an argument to stay the course will follow.
What really seemed to bother the national environmental leadership was the title. Many privately acknowledged that they agreed with much of what we wrote, "But did you have to call it 'Death'?" they asked. People posted comments to blogs literally insisting that they weren't dead. In a particularly surreal discussion at Harvard, a fellow panelist attempted to prove environmentalism's vitality with a PowerPoint presentation that began with the famous clip from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, where a frail, first-century Roman father protests, "I'm not dead! I feel fine!" as he's heaved onto a passing mortician's cart by his son. It all illustrated two key points we had made in our essay: that environmentalists are overly literal and that they constantly and unwittingly activate their opponents' frames.
Many readers couldn't figure out where we stood in the tired debate between "national" and "grass-roots" environmentalists. Because the object of our analysis was the leadership of the largest organizations and foundations that determine national strategy, many saw in our essay an embrace of grass-roots environmentalism. But others felt we had disrespected grass-roots activists by not holding them up as exemplars of the one true environmental movement.
Having argued that such "rationalism" is, paradoxically, unscientific, and having proposed ditching the antiquated concepts of "nature" and "the environment," some suggested that we had gone off the postmodern deep end (tantamount to being French). "How can you save the environment if you don't believe it exists?" one particularly literal environmental-studies professor asked us shortly after the Monty Python moment at Harvard.
Why do we consider childhood asthma exacerbated by air pollution to be an environmental problem but not asthma exacerbated by lack of treatment? Why is habitat for nonhuman animals an environmental issue while habitat (a k a "housing") for human animals is not? Why are extinctions caused by meteors considered "natural" but ones caused by humans "unnatural"?
You don't need a Ph.D. in linguistics to see that there's something funny about the concept of "the environment." If the concept includes humans, everything is "environmental," and it has little use other than being a poor synonym for "everything." If the concept excludes humans, it is scientifically specious (not to mention politically suicidal).
Environmentalism's rickety underpinnings worked well enough in the 1960s and '70s. But the mental model created to deal with smog and create national parks isn't up to the challenge of dealing with the profoundly complex and global ecological (and political, cultural, and economic) crises of the 21st century. Even if the environmental movement staves off oil drilling in Alaska -- where global warming is melting the tundra and making the forests vulnerable to disease -- what will remain?
This conceptual point was at the heart of our essay, yet conspicuously ignored by most readers. As a consequence, many misread our reflections on the New Apollo Project as little more than advocacy for a shiny new coalition. What we were attempting to suggest, perhaps poorly, was emphatically not that environmentalists should form what political scientist Bill Chaloupka calls "Kumbaya coalitions." Nor were we suggesting that environmentalists should quit their jobs and start working on other progressive issues like health care, labor, or civil rights.
Rather, we argued that anyone who cares about global warming must speak to the material and nonmaterial aspirations that Americans have for themselves and their country. Treating Apollo as a laundry list of technical policy proposals and endorsing organizations overlooks its potential to create a new politics grounded in vision and values, not problems and issues.
By now it should go without saying that we could just as easily have written a "death of" report about any of the special interests that comprise the liberal coalition. The fact that every two years a moribund environmentalism marries itself to a moribund liberalism in an effort to elect Democratic candidates is part of the problem. All of the progressive special interests will continue to fail politically as long as they conceptualize their interests so narrowly and conduct their politics so literally.
For the last 15 years, environmentalists have publicly debated global-warming deniers under the assumption that a) they can actually "win" the debate and b) once the public learns "the facts" things will start to change. What they should have done instead is built support for an agenda that inspires people regardless of whether they believe global warming is real. The result has been politically disastrous: Having rested their agenda on proving the truth of global warming, attacking the science is for the carbon lobby what attacking John Kerry's war record was for Karl Rove.
And so it came to pass that environmental groups -- so intimidated by right-wing attacks on "the science" -- refused in late August to publicly connect global warming to Hurricane Katrina, which pummeled New Orleans. "It's like it's 1960 and we're afraid to suggest that cigarettes might be killing people," one foundation executive lamented in an e-mail to environmental leaders.
It was up to climatologists from MIT and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, who had recently published major studies making the connection between warming oceans and hurricane severity in both Nature and Science, to put two and two together. With congressional Democrats following the environmentalists' lead, it was once again left to high-ranking European officials, including Britain's chief scientist, to criticize the Bush administration.
In all the upset over "The Death of Environmentalism" we, along with former Sierra Club President Adam Werbach, bowed out of the national Apollo Alliance. Since then we have sought new avenues to advance the Apollo concept. Recently we worked with Bracken Hendricks, formerly the executive director of the Apollo Alliance and now a senior fellow at the Breakthrough Institute and the Center for American Progress, to create a proposal for an Automotive Competitiveness and Accountability Act.
With General Motors and Ford teetering perilously close to bankruptcy and hemorrhaging tens of thousands of jobs, Congress may be asked once again to bail out Detroit. After September 11, Congress bailed out the airline industry and demanded nothing in return. This time, Congress should demand accountability.
The act recognizes that American automakers are burdened with massive health-care costs that their foreign competitors, blessed with national health-care systems, don't have. This competitive disadvantage partly explains Detroit's failure to invest adequately in research and development and thus produce better vehicles. But Detroit is not free from blame: The Big Three have stubbornly refused to innovate and are now stuck selling gas-guzzlers that fewer Americans want.
But in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, there's no question that the public will start demanding government action to help communities adapt to future disasters. And as soon as we begin the debate over adaptation to global warming, we can put an end to the debate over whether global warming is real.
That the environmental community has chosen to sit on the sidelines is probably a good thing. It will make for much a better politics if developers, unions, doctors, and relief organizations take the lead in demanding investments in things like stronger levees as well as clean energy.
Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus are managing partners of American Environics and directors of The Breakthrough Institute. The Death of Environmentalism and the Birth of a New American Politics will be published in fall 2006 by Houghton Mifflin.
Michael Shellenberger is a managing partner of American Environics and director of The Breakthrough Institute. The Death of Environmentalism and the Birth of a New American Politics will be published in fall 2006 by Houghton Mifflin.


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Q: Bash script manipulation I work with Bash script and I want to get line from  big text by special text
for example i have these lines
first fffffffffffffffffffffffffff
.................................
second ssssssssssssssssssssssssss
.................................
third ttttttttttttttttttttttttttt

and I want to get ssssssssssssssssssssssssss string .
Can anybody help me?

A: cat filename | grep "^second" | cut -d " " -f 2

Or, if you are ALF:
<filename grep "^second" | cut -d " " -f 2

Or
grep "^second" filename | cut -d " " -f 2

A: Is this what you want?
echo "$longstring" | awk '$1 == "second" { print $2 }'

A: since you seem to not have any criterion as to which line you want to output, i suggest something like:
echo "ssssssssssssssssssssssssss"

this is pretty robust regarding the content of your input, doesn't depend on a "file", and is a fast solution.


Sea Bright Mayor Dina Long addressing residents at a recent community planning meeting.
When Sandy came ashore last October, Sea Bright's downtown was severely flooded, with more than a thousand homes and businesses damaged or destroyed and the streets filled with mountains of sand and debris.
Ten months later, as the repairs continue, the borough is using the experience to reinvent itself and plan for the future, working with the neighboring town of Highlands to take a regional approach to its recovery.
Both New Jersey Future and Sustainable Jersey are leading the project, along with a similar effort in Ocean County's Little Egg Harbor, and in another group of towns -- Downe, Commercial, and Maurice River townships -- in Cumberland County. In each of these communities participating in the "Local Recovery and Resiliency Network," New Jersey Future will embed a planner for the next 18 months to help oversee the long-term rebuilding effort on a local level, with a focus on sustainability, mitigation, and collaboration with neighboring municipalities.
The project may be extended to three years, depending upon funding. Meanwhile, Sustainable Jersey's Resiliency Coordinators will work on developing storm mitigation strategies on a more regional basis.
As a narrow strip of land, bordered by the ocean on one side and the Shrewsbury and Navesink Rivers on the other, Sea Bright's battles with Mother Nature are nothing new. Frank Lawrence remembers regular flooding when he grew up there in the early 1950s. "I think we were evacuated about five times. And at that point my mother said, 'That's enough!' and we moved across the river," he recalled.
Though Lawrence hasn't lived in town for decades, he's maintained a strong attachment to Sea Bright over the years. After Sandy, Mayor Long called and asked him to help lead the town's effort to come up with ways to address its long-standing challenges and to create the community residents have always dreamed of having. "You have to take this disaster and say, All right, we lost all that, but here's an opportunity now, where we can do something positive for the long term future of the town," he said.
Lawrence was one of hundreds of people who showed up for a recent community meeting, the first step in a public planning process that will run for the next several months to determine what shape the recovery takes. In fact, so many residents wanted to be involved that the meeting had to be held in a Catholic school gymnasium across the bridge in Rumson, since there was nowhere in Sea Bright itself that could accommodate the crowd.
The gathering billed itself as the kick-off event for "Seabright 2020," a reference to both preparing the town for challenges in the next decade and the 20/20 vision that residents are hoping to have as they move forward, understanding what they need to do to make the town safer and more secure in future storms. It was mostly a brainstorming session, with residents milling around the room for over an hour, looking at giant boards asking questions like, "What kind of improvements or changes would help the livability and quality of your neighborhood?" and "Describe how you'd like the character of Sea Bright to be in ten years." People had a chance to jot their ideas on Post-It notes, which they stuck on the boards for everyone else to read.
Barbara Nadler has lived in town for 17 years. She said she wants Sea Bright to maintain its funky vibe for artists and other creative people. "Open up the restaurants so they have tables outside, and eating al fresco. People would come to that," she suggested, adding that chess tables on top of the seawall might also attract visitors. "You need to have something that is special to Sea Bright!" Residents of Sea Bright agreed to continue their brainstorming in several committees, sorting through the hundreds of suggestions to come up with a clear vision of what steps the town should take in the months ahead.
It's not that people haven't had these types of discussions in the past, but Sandy has effectively wiped the slate clean and created an environment in which they're forced to rethink things from scratch. And it's brought with it the possibility of securing funding to finally turn some of those pie-in-the-sky ideas into action.
Frank Lawrence said the grassroots method, soliciting ideas from the ground-up, rather than the top-down was essential to give Sea Bright the best chance at getting grants. "Part of the federal Sandy money that's come out has been put aside to fund projects specific to recovery of towns," he explained, stressing the need for public input into the process of planning process.
The goal for Sea Bright and the other towns participating in the Local Recovery and Resiliency Network is to make the Jersey Shore more resilient, one town at a time.
For now, the discussion is mostly centered on suggestions from residents. Specific, technical mitigation strategies will be considered at greater length later in the process, once planners with more expertise get involved.
The committees of residents focusing on community facilities, housing, economic recovery and the waterfront are in the midst of identifying their priorities, and will report back with their recommendations at another town meeting early next month. Plans will then be wrapped up by early November, and the borough will apply for grants to implement some of the ideas.
Planning advocacy groups say that if these trial partnerships are successful, they could spread and set a model for future recovery efforts up and down the coast.
Scott Gurian is the Sandy recovery writer for NJ Spotlight.


In ORC's experience, one of the most challenging aspects of implementing a successful diversity initiative is finding the right measures. sometimes, in their desire to provide data, organizations lose sight of why they are measuring in the first place: to inform and drive the change process at both the organizational and individual levels. Metrics should be dictated by the organization's diversity strategy and goals, which in turn derive from its business goals. To select the right metrics, you also need to think through what you need to know in order to analyze the organization's systems and culture, what you need to report to stakeholders, and how you will structure the data.
In addition, the following "Ten Commandments" will help to make your measurement of D&I progress more effective.
Thou shalt collaborate with business units and functions to determine how D&I will impact their business strategies, and set goals and measures accordingly.
Thou shalt not limit thyself to workforce demographics. Thou shalt use measures from each of the four families.
Thou shalt measure sparingly, tracking only what will drive action towards strategic goals.
Thou shalt consider the maturity of your diversity initiative when selecting metrics, and change them over time.
Thou shalt work closely with country HR and business management to understand the "differences that make a difference" in each location and define demographic categories in ways that make sense locally.
Thou shalt provide managers with the coaching, education, and tools they need to be able to reach the goals against which they are measured.
Thou shalt avoid jumping to conclusions about why the results of employee surveys are what they are. Apply accepted statistical standards and dig deeper to uncover root causes.
Thou shalt define the outcomes desired—e.g., change in behavior, cost savings, etc.—and how they will be measured before launching a new program or initiative.
In attempting to demonstrate the Roi of a diversity initiative, thou shalt be conservative in calculating value.
Thou shalt report diversity and inclusion metrics in every meeting in which business results are reviewed, displaying the information creatively to tell the story vividly and succinctly.
While "Ten Commandments" implies that these rules are set in stone—and our research tells us that they do hold true in most environments—how each organization implements them will differ to some extent. This is because measurement is as much art as science—as much literature as math; the data are important, but so is the story. And to tell a good story, you must know your audience. diversity practitioners need to understand their organization's culture, the language of the business, and leadership's appetite for data in order to apply these rules appropriately and effectively.
ORC Worldwide (ORC) is an international management consulting firm offering professional assistance in the areas of global equality, diversity and inclusion; talent management; global and domestic compensation; labor and employee relations; and occupational safety and health. Visit www.orcworldwide.com for more information.


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What Is N2F4?
By Staff WriterLast Updated Apr 15, 2020 4:51:34 PM ET
N2F4 is the chemical formula for the chemical compound tetrafluorohydrazine or dinitrogen tetrafluoride. It is a colorless inorganic gas that is extremely hazardous. It is produced from nitrogen trifluoride, an inorganic gas that is toxic, colorless and nonflammable, using iron or iron(II) fluoride.
Dinitrogen tetrafluoride is a highly toxic gas that explodes if it comes into contact with reducing agents at normal temperatures such as ammonia, boranes, alcohols and hydrogen. It can also explode at high temperatures. It may be fatal if inhaled or absorbed through the skin.
Dinitrogen tetrafluoride is used in chemical synthesis, as a catalyst or a precursor. It is also an oxidizing agent in rocket fuel.