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Steven Chu, né le  à Saint-Louis (Missouri), est un physicien et homme politique américain. Il est co-lauréat avec Claude Cohen-Tannoudji et William D. Phillips du prix Nobel de physique de 1997 pour leurs recherches sur le refroidissement et la capture d'atomes par laser. Il est secrétaire à l'Énergie entre 2009 et 2013 dans l'administration du président Barack Obama.

Biographie

Études
Né de parents immigrants chinois, Steven Chu reçoit son baccalauréat universitaire en 1970 de l'université de Rochester et son doctorat de l'université de Californie à Berkeley en 1976, puis reste deux ans à Berkeley comme chercheur post-doctoral avant de rejoindre les laboratoires Bell. C'est dans ces laboratoires que lui et son équipe travaillent sur le refroidissement d'atomes par laser.

Carrière scientifique
Il est co-lauréat avec Claude Cohen-Tannoudji et William D. Phillips du prix Nobel de physique de 1997 . Il quitte les laboratoires Bell en 1987 pour devenir professeur de physique à l'université Stanford dont il dirige le département de physique de 1990 à 1993 et de 1999 à 2001. Il est engagé comme directeur du Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory en 2004. Depuis 2020, il est président du Conseil scientifique de l'École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris.

Secrétaire à l'Énergie des États-Unis

Le , Steven Chu est nommé secrétaire à l'Énergie des États-Unis dans l'administration du président Barack Obama. Il est chargé de l'application du programme écologique et énergétique souhaité par le président Obama, étant lui-même partisan des énergies renouvelables. Le , il annonce ainsi la création d'un fonds de  de dollars américains afin d'améliorer l'efficience énergétique des principales industries aux États-Unis. Il a déclaré ne pas vouloir être reconduit dans ses fonctions lors du second mandat de l'administration Obama et quitte son poste en 2013. Daniel Poneman assure un intérim avant la nomination d'Ernest Moniz au poste.

Steven Chu redevient dès lors professeur à l'université Stanford.

Vie privée

Il a participé aux conférences du Mind and Life Institute, qui a pour but de promouvoir un dialogue entre la science et le bouddhisme.

À côté de sa carrière scientifique il développe un intérêt sérieux pour le sport, comme le baseball, la natation et le cyclisme.

Recherches
Les recherches de Chu se sont portées principalement sur la physique atomique en développant des méthodes pour refroidir et capturer des atomes en utilisant des lasers. Pendant son séjour à Stanford, ses recherches se sont étendues à la physique des polymères et à la biophysique.

Chu avec trois autres professeurs a lancé le programme Bio-X, une approche interdisciplinaire de la biologie et de la médecine.

Distinctions
En plus du Prix Nobel de physique, Chu a obtenu une multitude de prix et de reconnaissance à travers le monde.

Récompenses
 1987 :
 1990 :
 1993 :  (Arabie Saoudite), avec Herbert Walther
 1994 :
 1994 :
 1995 : Prix de recherche Humboldt
 1996 : Bourse Guggenheim
 1997 : Prix Nobel de physique, avec Claude Cohen-Tannoudji et William Daniel Phillips
 1998 :  (Allemagne)

Sociétés savantes
 Membre de la Société américaine de physique
 Membre de l'Académie nationale des sciences
 Membre de l'Optical Society
 2014 : Membre étranger de la Royal Society
 2018 : Membre de l'académie pontificale des sciences
 2018 : Président de l'Association américaine pour l'avancement des sciences

Honneurs
 Doctorat honoris causa de l'Université chinoise de Hong Kong
 2007 : Doctorat honoris causa de l'Université de Boston
 2008 : Doctorat honoris causa de l'Université de Pékin
 2009 : Doctorat honoris causa de l'Université Harvard
 2010 : Doctorat honoris causa de l'Université Washington de Saint-Louis
 2010 : Doctorat honoris causa de l'Université Yale
 2014 : Doctorat honoris causa du Williams College
 2017 : Doctorat honoris causa du Amherst College

Notes et références

Liens externes

  Biographie sur le site de l'Université Stanford

Naissance en février 1948
Naissance à Saint-Louis (Missouri)
Boursier Guggenheim
Étudiant de l'université de Rochester
Étudiant de l'université de Californie à Berkeley
Docteur honoris causa de l'université Harvard
Docteur honoris causa de l'université Yale
Lauréat du prix Nobel de physique
Lauréat américain du prix Nobel
Membre de l'Academia sinica
Membre de l'Académie nationale des sciences
Membre de l'Association américaine pour l'avancement des sciences
Membre du cabinet du président Barack Obama
Membre étranger de la Royal Society
Physicien américain
Personnalité américaine née d'un parent chinois
Professeur à l'université Stanford
Secrétaire à l'Énergie des États-Unis

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Fadi Khoury's FJK Dance at New York Live Arts.
Two tickets for the Friday, September 15 performance at 7:30 pm.
In the company's fourth annual season, FJK Dance returns to New York Live Arts with two premiere performances showcasing a contemporary fusion of culture and dance. New works presented include, MUNDO, that will bring Latin American dance together with Middle Eastern tradition. The Friday night performance will also include the FJK's repertory works: ECHOES (2015) and REFLECTIONS (2016).


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La Resolució 2179 del Consell de Seguretat de les Nacions Unides fou adoptada per unanimitat el 14 d'octubre de 2014. El Consell va ampliar el mandat de la Força Provisional de Seguretat de les Nacions Unides per a Abyei (UNISFA) per quatre mesos i mig fins al 28 de febrer de 2015.

Contingut
El Consell va assenyalar que s'havien estancat els esforços de Sudan i Sudan del Sud per desmilitaritzar i posar en pràctica el mecanisme de vigilància conjunta de la frontera a causa que aquest darrer era en desacord amb la posició de la línia central, o va instar a les dues parts a reprendre el diàleg en comptes d'optar per la violència i les provocacions. També va demanar reprendre les negociacions sobre l'estatut final d'Abyei.

El Consell també era molt preocupats pel fet que encara no s'havien establert l'administració i la policia en aquesta regió, malgrat l'acord de 2011. Foren condemnades la presència de l'Exèrcit de Sudan del Sud, la policia de petroli sudanesa i les milícies Misseriya. Es va instar a desarmar la població i es va demanar a les autoritats que organitzessin una conferència de pau entre els Ngok Dinka i els caps Misseriya. També es va convidar a totes les parts a cooperar en la investigació sobre l'assassinat d'un casc blau d'UNISFA i un capità Ngok Dinka.

El 7 de setembre, la Comissió Nacional Electoral de Sudan va anunciar que inclouria Abyei en les eleccions de 2015. El Consell va afirmar que aquesta decisió constitueix un greu risc per a l'estabilitat de la regió.

Referències

Vegeu també
 Llista de resolucions del Consell de Seguretat de les Nacions Unides 2101 a la 2200 (2013 - 2015)

Enllaços externs
  Text de la Resolució a UN.org

Resolucions del Consell de Seguretat de les Nacions Unides de 2014
Resolucions del Consell de Seguretat de les Nacions Unides sobre Sudan del Sud


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Kim Walker-Smith has quickly become one of the strongest voices in worship music. She is a passionate worship leader with an anointing to bring an entire generation into an encounter with God. Her heart is to see people transformed by experiencing God's love and for this generation to see themselves the way God sees them. She believes when that happens, hearts are set free. Kim is one of the worship leaders for the Jesus Culture band and serves on the Jesus Culture Senior Leadership Team. She's been with Jesus Culture since the beginning of the ministry. Her heart to serve...
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Before she was married Kim was known as just Kim Walker. She was raised in a small farm town called Klamath Falls, Oregon.
She says "My family for generations has been very musical and my mom put me on a stage when I was three. I grew up singing and was very involved in Musical Theater". This was the start of a long road to becoming a great singer.
Later on in her life Kim moved to Redding, California to attend a Christian College. She was struggling with her grades and wasn't happy attending university. One night as she was driving around she cried out to the Lord asking Him why she was at the University. Apparently, whilst driving, she came across Bethel Church.
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Jesus Culture began in the summer of 1999, when the youth group at Bethel Church in Redding, California, led by Banning Liebscher, launched the first Jesus Culture conference. The Jesus Culture Band is comprised of Kim Walker-Smith, Chris Quilala, Jeffrey Kunde (lead guitar), Brandon Aaronson (bass player), Ian McIntosh(keys), and Josh Fisher (drums).
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Musings on the Evolution of America's Libertarian Democracy to Kleptocracy
Not long after America was born as a libertarian democracy, the Civil War exploded that libertarian ideal and ushered in American plutocracy. The Great Depression and World War II then intervened with 20 years of dysfunction before America's plutocracy was restored. Were it not for the pandemic, after 2016 America could well have evolved into a Trumpian kleptocracy.
The pandemic has blown the cover of Trump and his crony capitalist kleptocrats, but it's still uncertain what American democracy will look like after the pandemic. The November elections will give us a preview. If the Democrats win, the crony capitalists on Wall Street will run for cover. American capitalism will once again be regulated, if not reinvented.
Capitalism has long been an integral part of American political culture based on its innovation and competition that has balanced the natural greed of capitalists. But since the 1990s, economic and political power has been concentrated on Wall Street, with competition reduced by mega-mergers. Increasing disparities in wealth now threaten economic justice.
The pandemic has revealed a dysfunctional economy supported by Federal Reserve and Congressional interventions that began in 2008 to save mega-corporations that were "too big to fail." Public subsidies have protected Wall Street and Silicon Valley from economic failure since then, and the pandemic has increased those public subsidies for mega-corporations.
Since 2008 public subsidies have favored Wall Street over Main Street. In downturns small businesses have failed while mega-corporations have been protected from failure with unlimited assistance from the Fed and a benevolent Congress beholden to their patrons on Wall Street. America has been evolving into a nascent kleptocracy based on crony capitalism.
The pandemic was the triggering event that turned an economic downturn into an economic disaster, with unemployment levels not seen since the Depression. America was a decadent and divided nation before COVID-19 struck, and after staying at home so long Americans may have forgotten just how decadent and divided they were before the pandemic.
Ross Douthat's latest book, The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success, was published before the pandemic. Walter McDougall has noted that Douthat hoped America's decadence and division would resolve itself into a renaissance rather than a revolution; but McDougall isn't so sure about sharing Douthat's optimism.
Whatever comes next remains a mystery, but American democracy will be different after the pandemic--just as it was after the Civil War and World War II. Will America experience a renaissance and be reborn as a revitalized libertarian democracy, resume as the plutocracy it was before 2016, or will it evolve into Trump's image of an American kleptocracy?
A plutocracy is a society that is ruled or controlled by people of great wealth or income. See
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A kleptocracy is a government with corrupt leaders (kleptocrats) that use their power to exploit the people and natural resources of their own territory in order to extend their personal wealth and political powers. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptocracy.
Walter A. McDougall has noted, "Douthat describes the symptoms of our national decadence in four pithy chapters. The first symptom is economic stagnation resulting from the demographic aging of the population, runaway national debt, the collapse of educational standards, and the surprising loss of American technological dynamism. The second is sterility resulting from the natural drop in the birthrate of a wealthy information-age society, but also from feminism, abortion, divorce, the decline of marriage, and the soaring cost of child-rearing. The third is sclerosis most obviously displayed in the paralysis of a gridlocked government that used to win world wars but today cannot even pass a normal budget. The fourth symptom is repetition, being a lazy lack of creativity reflected in Hollywood's habit of making "remakes of remakes."
McDougall recommends readers to pair Douthat's The Decadent Society with James Kurth's new book The American Way of Empire: How America Won a World—But Lost Her Way. "Among much else, Kurth describes the "preferred domestic public policies" as well as the foreign policies of three American plutocracies. The first rose to power in the 1880s and 1890s on the strength of industrial sectors such as coal, steel, railroads, and oil. Its captains of industry, or "robber barons," wanted a political system that seemed bracingly democratic, but in fact ensured that both political parties would do their bidding by supporting the gold standard, protective tariffs, a big navy, and foreign markets through the "Open Door" policy. The second American plutocracy that arose in the 1920s and 1930s was split between industry and the financial sector which rose like a rocket during and after the Great War. Wall Street favored free trade and internationalism and thus quarreled with the industrialists of the Middle West. When the Great Depression hit both were hurt badly, but did not succumb to populist or leftist movements thanks to Franklin Roosevelt, World War II, and Harry Truman.
The third American plutocracy is dominated by the financial sector, which hollowed out American industry, not only by promoting free trade overseas, but by promoting multinational corporations after 1960 and globalization after 1990. So we have our plutocracy to thank for the Rust Belt with its abandoned working class. The most scandalous proof of its power to manipulate public policy is Washington's response to the Great Recession caused by the greed of the financial sector beginning in 2008. Nearly all the "too big to fail" financial institutions were awarded generous bailouts funded by ordinary taxpayers or else tacked onto the national debt (which doubled under George W. Bush and doubled again under Barack Obama).
...Meanwhile, the new billionaires of the tech industry—who were already "woke"—not only joined the plutocracy but contributed to it the means to anesthetize the "deplorables" in the hinterland. Not that the founders of Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, and the rest of those veritable sovereignties intended to exercise dystopian social control but, having done so, are not about to let go of their algorithms.
In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, what may happen next is a mystery. But Douthat thinks a radical revolution in the United States is extremely unlikely given that its population is much richer and older than those of say, late Imperial Russia or Weimar Germany, and is atomized and tranquilized by the internet. Instead, he hopes for a renaissance inspired, perhaps, by simultaneous scientific and religious revivals, because "there can also be a mysterious alchemy between the two forms of human exploration. And nothing will be a surer sign that decadence has ended in something like a renaissance than if that alchemy suddenly returns."
In How the Irish Saved Civilization, his little classic on the so-called Dark Ages following the fall of the Roman Empire, Thomas Cahill quotes cultural historian Kenneth Clark to the effect that "Civilization requires confidence—confidence in the society in which one lives, belief in its philosophy, belief in its laws, and confidence in one's own mental powers…. Vigour, energy, vitality: all the great civilizations—or civilizing epochs—have had a weight of energy behind them." Can Americans recover that confidence and display that energy after this emergency has passed? Will a critical mass of them come to realize (as Robert Pirsig wrote in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) that the decadence of a technological civilization lies in its worship of Quantity over Quality?
I believe we shall know that postmodern America has begun to exit La Décadence only when her people embrace faith, hope, and charity, and begin to create beauty again." See
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/on-decadence-decline-and-hope-for-a-renaissance/.
Robin Wright has asked: Is America's 'one nation indivisible' being killed off by the coronavirus? "The existential but conflicting issues spawned by the pandemic—the right to life and physical health versus the right to liberty and economic health—have provided the perfect vector for new fissures in America. The gun-toting protesters may be a minority, but polls show that the President's positions on the role of the state during the pandemic have solid public backing. In the midst of Trump's skirmish with Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer, his job-approval rating soared by six points, to forty-nine per cent, according to a new Gallup poll released on Thursday. It tied for Trump's personal best in Gallup's polling data. Forty-seven per cent disapprove. America is a country evenly and bitterly divided. But Americans should remember, ..."there won't be any blue or red rooms in heaven." See
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/is-americas-one-nation-indivisible-being-killed-off-by-the-coronavirus.
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Caving in to aggressive lobbying by auto manufacturers and dealers who profit handsomely from the sales of muscle cars and enormous gas-guzzlers, California politicians refused to pass legislation that would have curbed greenhouse gas emissions and made fuel-efficient SUVs, pickups, minivans, and sedans more affordable. However, the author has vowed to continue the fight and revive the legislation next year.
The Clean Car Discount Act of 2007, AB 493, is championed by Assemblymember Ira Ruskin (D-Redwood City). It remains a top priority for environmental and consumer groups, as well as socially responsible businesses and faith-based organizations. Consumers for Auto Reliability and Safety has been working actively to get the bill enacted.
Auto dealers made many legislators fearful of voting for the measure. Auto dealers are extremely active and well-connected politically. They spend heavily on political campaigns, and generally back conservative candidates. They take pride in punishing lawmakers who dare to stand up for consumers and the environment.
No Republicans were willing to vote for the bill, and a handful of anti-consumer Democratic lawmakers also voiced a reluctance to vote for it, despite polls showing strong public support for the measure.
"The Clean Car Discount program is designed to ensure choice by providing that some vehicles of every type will be unaffected or receive a rebate. Over 40 percent of the 1.7 million new vehicles purchased in California each year will be eligible for a rebate, and another 20 percent will not be affected at all. Given the breadth of choice, the Clean Car Discount program will help make cleaner vehicles more affordable for every California family," said Ruskin in his explanation of the measure.
In their attempt to kill the bill, auto dealers stooped to misleading tactics. One auto dealer, Fritz Hitchcock, President of Puente Hills Toyota in City of Industry, claimed in a letter to lawmakers that AB 493 would "penalize" disabled Californians. But in fact the bill expressly exempts persons with disabilities from having to pay any additional charges, and would have made various models that can accommodate wheelchairs less expensive.
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Mental Health Support For Children And Young People Must Be Rapidly Expanded To Meet Growing Levels Of Need
Mental health support for children and young people must be accelerated and expanded to meet growing levels of need, Centre for Mental Health chief executive Sarah Hughes said today.
Centre For Mental Health	October 22, 2020
Ways Your Anxiety Is Costing You
If you find yourself regularly feeling anxious, you're not alone. Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in America, affecting 40 million adults — roughly 18% of the U.S. population — each year, according to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. What you might not realize is how much this anxiety is costing you, both from an emotional and economical standpoint.
Gabrielle Olya	September 30, 2020
CEOs are Dealing With Two Mental Health Crises: Their Employees' and Their Own
For workers, stress is bombarding them from all directions with no sign of relenting. Employees are on edge about holding onto their jobs (and their partners' holding onto theirs). Those lucky enough to do so often find themselves with smaller teams, big deadline pressures, and larger workloads.
Larry Kanter	September 29, 2020
UK has experienced 'explosion' in anxiety since 2008, study finds
There has been an "explosion" in anxiety in Britain over the past decade, research has shown, with the financial crash, austerity, Brexit, climate change and social media blamed for massive rises in the condition.
Denis Campbell	September 17, 2020
Signs of depression have tripled in the U.S. since the COVID-19 pandemic got underway
The prevalence of sleep troubles, lethargy, feelings of hopelessness and other depression symptoms in adults across the country has more than tripled since the pandemic began, according to a new study.
Tribune News Service	September 13, 2020
If the government doesn't act now, mental illness will be the second pandemic
If you know that level of suffering may be coming down the tracks, then the government has a duty to take the lead in preparing for it. That means working closely with the mental health organisations
Alastair Campbell	September 11, 2020
The Pandemic Is a 'Mental Health Crisis' for Parents
New studies show caregivers with young children are stressed, with no signs of relief on the horizon.
Jessica Grose	September 9, 2020
First-of-its-Kind National Partnership Aims to Redesign Child Welfare Into Child- and Family Well-Being Systems
The Children's Bureau at HHS' Administration for Children and Families, Casey Family Programs, the Annie E. Casey Foundation Visit disclaimer pageand Prevent Child Abuse America®Visit disclaimer page are partnering to launch a nationwide initiative to prove that it is possible to fundamentally rethink how child welfare systems function to prioritize strengthening families and building resiliency, rather than separating families.
Administration for Children & Families	September 9, 2020
The recession is here. Get ready for the mental health pandemic
As the UK officially enters a recession, Natasha Preskey examines how the difficulties of the coronavirus pandemic are about to become a mental health crisis, as well as a physical one.
Natasha Preskey	September 3, 2020
Pandemic's Emotional Hammer Hits Hard
Nearly a quarter of people in the United States are experiencing symptoms of depression, according to a study published Wednesday. That's nearly three times the number before the COVID-19 pandemic began.
Rhitu Chatterjee	September 2, 2020


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This week's Crime Log covers March 17-23.
At 12:30 a.m. a resident in the 3000 block of Caniff reported being assaulted by a neighbor.
At about 2 a.m. a Roosevelt resident reported being assaulted by her mother's ex-boyfriend.
At 8 a.m. a resident reported the theft of their 2003 Jeep while it was parked in the 3400 block of Yemans. Later that day Hazel Park police said they recovered the vehicle and arrested a person.
At 9:30 a.m. a resident reported the theft of their 1999 Ford while it was parked at Caniff and Moran.
Walter's Party store reported a man passed two fraudulent checks.
A resident reported an identity theft. The man said someone used his ID to obtain a loan from Chrysler Financial.
A man reported his ex-girlfriend took his iPad.
Three men were arrested following a traffic stop for a number of offenses, including driving without a license, resisting arrest and obstruction. One of the men was wanted on two felony warrants for robbery and burglary.
The owner of a business in the 11600 block of Jos. Campau reported a known suspect entered the store and stole the entire inventory.
A man was arrested on Hamtramck Dr. for being wanted on two Hamtramck warrants.
A juvenile was arrested for fighting. He was turned over to his mother.
Officers picked up a loose Rottweiler in the 3400 block of Comstock. The dog was transported to the Westland Humane Society.
A Detroit resident was arrested following a traffic stop for having a fraudulent license tab that had been stolen out of Detroit.
A person turned in a set of keys to the police station found at Gallagher and Caniff.
A resident in the 2300 block of Geimer reported his car window had been broken.
A homeowner reported someone broke into his residence in the 2300 block of Poland and ransacked it.
Two residents were arrested after being caught scrapping a house in the 5000 block of Yemans.
A Detroit resident was arrested for fleeing the scene of an accident that caused an injury. It was noted that the resident had been caught driving without a license 33 times.
A Doremus resident reported a person she knows broke into her residence and stole prescription pills and a cell phone. The suspect was last seen fleeing in a purple car.
A Troy resident reported someone struck his 2014 Dodge Ram while it was parked in the 9300 block of Jos. Campau.
At about 5 a.m. officers noticed an open door of a residence in the 2700 block of Florian, and also noted signs that there had been a forced entry.
A resident in the 2400 block of Commor reported someone stole a package off of her porch.
A resident reported someone attempted to steal her 2004 Dodge Stratus while it was parked in the 11600 block of Mitchell.
An employee of a business on Buffalo reported a former employee threatened him.
A Detroit resident was arrested for shoplifting from a store in the 12000 block of Jos. Campau. The suspect also injured the store owner and resisted arrest.
A resident reported being swindled out of $2,500 after receiving a phone call from someone claiming she won $3 million and needed to send money to secure the winnings.
At about 8 a.m. a resident reported the theft of their car while it was parked in the 3800 block of Doremus.
A resident reported someone broke into his grandfather's residence and ransacked it.
A Nagel resident made a stalking report.
A Detroit resident was arrested for breaking into a residence in the 11300 block of Nagel and for obstructing officers.
A resident in the 11600 block of Klinger reported someone broke into their garage and stole a number of items.
Two men attempted to steal clothing from Mr. Alan's and then fled.
At a little after 2 a.m. a person in the police station lobby was arrested after officers discovered he was wanted on a Hamtramck warrant.
At almost 5 a.m. a resident was arrested for calling an ambulance because he needed a ride to a gas station.
PNC Bank reported that a woman cashed three checks that had been stolen.
A resident reported that someone broke the rear window of her car while it was parked in the 3900 block of Caniff.
A Detroit resident was arrested for trying to cash a bad check at a bank in the 9200 block of Jos. Campau.
An Eastpointe resident was arrested following a traffic stop for driving without a license (there were 14 previous violations for this offense) and being wanted on a felony warrant in Macomb County.
A Westland resident was arrested at Doremus and Buffalo for domestic violence.


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Zbigniew Pałyszko (ur. 12 kwietnia 1945 w Dorsten, zm. 20 marca 2012 w Warszawie) – polski lekkoatleta specjalizujący się w rzucie młotem. Żołnierz Wojska Polskiego.

Życiorys
Dwukrotny mistrz Polski seniorów (Zielona Góra 1968, Warszawa 1971), jak również brązowy medalista mistrzostw Polski (Kraków 1969). Siedmiokrotny reprezentant kraju w meczach międzypaństwowych (w latach 1968–1971). Rekord życiowy: 65,50 (17 czerwca 1971, Katowice). Reprezentował barwy warszawskiej Legii. Po zakończeniu kariery został trenerem. Jego wychowanką była Kamila Skolimowska. Został pochowany na cmentarzu czerniakowskim w Warszawie.

Ojciec Macieja Pałyszko – olimpijczyka.

Bibliografia

Lekkoatleci Legii Warszawa
Pochowani na cmentarzu Czerniakowskim w Warszawie
Polscy młociarze
Polscy trenerzy lekkoatletyczni
Trenerzy lekkoatletów Legii Warszawa
Urodzeni w 1945
Zmarli w 2012
Ludzie urodzeni w Dorsten


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Q: Avoiding mirrors to install a freshly released gem Bundler 1.3.0 has just been released (only 10 people have installed it so far), but I can only install a pre version, or a previous version.
$ gem install bundler --version 1.3.0 --verbose
HEAD http://rubygems.org/specs.4.8.gz
302 Moved Temporarily
HEAD http://production.s3.rubygems.org/specs.4.8.gz
304 Not Modified
ERROR:  Could not find a valid gem 'bundler' (= 1.3.0) in any repository
HEAD http://rubygems.org/prerelease_specs.4.8.gz
302 Moved Temporarily
HEAD http://production.s3.rubygems.org/prerelease_specs.4.8.gz
304 Not Modified
ERROR:  Possible alternatives: bundler

$ gem install bundler --version 1.3.0 --clear-sources --source http://rubygems.org --verbose
HEAD http://rubygems.org/specs.4.8.gz
302 Moved Temporarily
HEAD http://production.s3.rubygems.org/specs.4.8.gz
304 Not Modified
ERROR:  Could not find a valid gem 'bundler' (= 1.3.0) in any repository
HEAD http://rubygems.org/prerelease_specs.4.8.gz
302 Moved Temporarily
HEAD http://production.s3.rubygems.org/prerelease_specs.4.8.gz
304 Not Modified
ERROR:  Possible alternatives: bundler

$ gem install bundler --verbose
HEAD http://rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz
302 Moved Temporarily
HEAD http://production.s3.rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz
304 Not Modified
Installing gem bundler-1.2.4
/Users/agrimm/.rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p0/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/bundler-1.2.4/.gitignore
<snip>
/Users/agrimm/.rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p0/bin/bundle
Successfully installed bundler-1.2.4
Parsing documentation for bundler-1.2.4
Parsing sources...
100% [100/100]  lib/bundler/vlad.rb
Done installing documentation for bundler (2 sec).
1 gem installed

How can I tell rubygems to look at a canonical repository, rather than an out-of-date mirror?

A: I downloaded the gem file from rubygems.org, and installed it with gem install path/to/gem/file.
Somebody said that they installed it by gem install bundler --pre, but I didn't try it.

A: Try this in your Gemfile:
gem "nokogiri", :git => "git://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri.git", :branch => "1.4"

git "git://github.com/wycats/thor.git", :tag => "v0.13.4"
gem "thor"

http://gembundler.com/git.html
Or try this gem:
https://github.com/rdp/specific_install

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


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Video Game Exhibit Finalized
st3lt3k reminded us that the Smithsonian Art of Video Games winners have been announced. Some 240 nominee games were whittled down to 80 titles that will be used to demonstrate the evolution of electronic entertainment over the years. PC games from the early '90s were left off the ballot, so Wing Commander and sim fans in general were mostly shut out. If the image to right isn't fancy art, I don't know what is. The exhibit will be on display on the third floor of the the American Art Museum from March 16, 2012 to September 30, 2012. Check out the full list of feature games here.
The Art of Video Games is one of the first exhibitions to explore the forty-year evolution of video games as an artistic medium, with a focus on striking visual effects and the creative use of new technologies. The exhibition will feature some of the most influential artists and designers during five eras of game technology, from early developers such as David Crane and Warren Robinett to contemporary designers like Kellee Santiago and David Jaffe. It also will explore the many influences on game designers, and the pervasive presence video games have in the broader popular culture, with new relationships to video art, film and television, educational practices, and professional skill training.


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26 Jamuary 2017 to 07 April 2017
OECD Guideline 202 (Daphnia sp. Acute Immobilisation Test)
additional loading rate WAFs with no impact on results or integrity of the study (see below)
EU Method C.2 (Acute Toxicity for Daphnia)
Total Organic Carbon (TOC) analysis
Details on sampling:
TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON ANALYSIS
- Water samples were taken from the control and each test group at 0 hours (fresh media) and 48 hours (aged media) for analysis on the day of sampling
- Duplicate samples were also taken and stored frozen for further analysis, if necessary.
- Reconstituted water (Elendt M7 Medium) used for the range-finding test is defined in Annex 2 (attached).
Daphnia magna
Details on test organisms:
- The test was carried out using 1st instar Daphnia magna derived from in-house laboratory cultures.
- Adult daphnia were maintained in 150 mL glass beakers containing Elendt M7 medium (see Annex 2, attached) in a temperature controlled room maintaining the water temperature at 18 to 22 °C.
- The lighting cycle was controlled to give a 16 hours light and 8 hours darkness cycle with 20-minute dawn and dusk transition periods.
- Each culture was fed daily with a mixture of algal suspension (Desmodesmus subspicatus) and Tetramin flake food suspension.
- Culture conditions ensured that reproduction was by parthenogenesis.
- Gravid adults were isolated the day before initiation of the test, such that the young daphnids produced overnight were less than 24 hours old. These young were removed from the cultures and used for testing.
- The diet and diluent water are considered not to contain any contaminant that would affect the integrity or outcome of the study.
21 to 22 °C (see Table 3, attached)
7.4 to 7.6 for loading rate WAFs in the definitive test (see Table 3, attached)
8.5 to 9.1 mf O2/L for loading rate WAFs in the definitive test (see Table 3, attached)
Nominal loading rates of 1.25, 2.5, 6.25, 12.5, 25, 50 and 100 mg/L in the definitive test
VALIDATION OF MIXING PERIOD
- Preliminary work (see Annex 4, attached) was carried out to determine whether stirring for a prolonged period produced significantly higher levels of total organic carbon, as an indicator of soluble organic substances, in the WAF.
- The test concentrations to be used in the initial experiment were determined by a preliminary range-finding test.
In the range-finding test, Daphnia magna were exposed to a series of nominal loading rates of 1.0, 10 and 100 mg/L.
- Nominal amounts of test item (5.0, 50 and 500 mg) were each separately dispensed onto a glass slide suspended within 5 Lof test water to give the 1.0, 10 and 100 mg/L loading rates, respectively. After the addition of the test item, the test water was stirred by magnetic stirrer using a stirring rate such that a vortex was formed to give a dimple at the water surface.
- Stirring was stopped after 95 hours and the mixtures allowed to stand for one hour. Visual observations made on the WAFs suggested to remove the WAFs by filtering through a glass wool plug (2-4 cm in length) as a precaution.
- A wide bore glass tube, covered at one end with Nescofilm was submerged into the vessel, sealed end down, to a depth of approximately 5 cm from the bottom of the vessel. A length of Tygon tubing was inserted into the glass tube and pushed through the Nescofilm seal. A glass wool plug was inserted into the opposite end of the tubing and the WAF removed by mid-depth siphoning (the first 75-100 mL discarded) to give the 1.0, 10 and 100 mg/L loading rate WAFs.
- Microscopic observations of the WAFs were performed after filtering and showed there to be no undissolved test item present.
- In the range-finding test, five daphnids were placed in each test and control vessel at random, in the test preparations. Four replicate test and control vessels were prepared, and maintained in a temperature controlled room maintaining the water temperature at 21 °C to 22 °C with a maximum deviation of ± 1 °C with a photoperiod of 16 hours light and 8 hours darkness for a period of 48 hours with 20 minute dawn and dusk transition periods. Each 150 mL test and control vessel contained 100 mL of test media and was covered to reduce evaporation. After 24 and 48 hours, the number of immobilised daphnids were recorded.
- The control group was maintained under identical conditions, but not exposed to the test item.
- A sample of each test concentration was taken for Total Organic Carbon (TOC) analysis at 0 and 48 hours. All samples were stored frozen prior to analysis.
INITIAL EXPERIMENT
- Based on the results of the range-finding test, the following loading rates were assigned to the initial experiment: 0.78, 1.56, 3.13, 6.25 and 12.5 mg/L.
- A nominal amount of test item (37.5 mg) was dispensed onto a glass slide suspended within 3 L of test water to give the 12.5 mg/L loading rate.
- After the addition of the test item, the test water was stirred by magnetic stirrer using a stirring rate such that a vortex was formed to give a dimple at the water surface.
- Stirring was stopped after 95 hours and the mixture allowed to stand for one hour. Observations made on the WAF indicated that a significant amount of dispersed test item was present in the water column; hence, it was considered justifiable to remove the WAF by filtering through a glass wool plug (2-4 cm in length).
- A wide bore glass tube, covered at one end with Nescofilm was submerged into the vessel, sealed end down, to a depth of approximately 5 cm from the bottom of the vessel. A length of Tygon tubing was inserted into the glass tube and pushed through the Nescofilm seal. A glass wool plug was inserted into the opposite end of the tubing and the WAF removed by mid-depth siphoning (the first 75-100 mL discarded) to give the 12.5 mg/L loading rate WAF.
- Microscopic observations of the WAF were performed after filtering and showed no test item present.
- A series of dilutions made from the 12.5 mg/L loading rate WAF to give the further loading rates of 0.78, 1.56, 3.13 and 6.25 mg/L. Each prepared loading rate was inverted several times to ensure adequate mixing and homogeneity.
- As in the range-finding test, 150 mL glass beakers containing approximately 100 mL of test preparation were used. At the start of the test five daphnids were placed in each test and control vessel at random, in the test preparations. Four replicate test and control vessels were prepared. The test vessels were then covered to reduce evaporation and maintained in a temperature controlled room maintaining the water temperature at 18 °C to 22 °C with a maximum deviation of ±1 °C with a photoperiod of 16 hours light (between 200 and 1200 Lux) and 8 hours darkness with 20-minute dawn and dusk transition periods. The daphnids were not individually identified, received no food during exposure and the test vessels were not aerated.
- The test preparations were not renewed during the exposure period.
- There was no immobilisation observed in the initial experiment, and the test series was adjusted accordingly for the definitive test.
- Based on the results of the range-finding test and initial experiment, the following loading rates were assigned to the definitive test: 1.25, 2.5, 6.25, 12.5, 25, 50 and 100 mg/L.
- Nominal amounts of test item (37.5, 75, 150 and 300 mg) were each separately dispensed onto a glass slide suspended within 3 L of test water to give the 12.5, 25, 50 and 100 mg/L loading rates, respectively.
- Stirring was stopped after 95 hours and the mixtures allowed to stand for one hour.
- Microscopic observations made on the WAFs indicated that a significant amount of dispersed test item was present in the water column; hence, it was considered justifiable to remove the WAFs by filtering through a glass wool plug (2-4 cm in length).
- A wide bore glass tube, covered at one end with Nescofilm was submerged into the vessel, sealed end down, to a depth of approximately 5 cm from the bottom of the vessel. A length of Tygon tubing was inserted into the glass tube and pushed through the Nescofilm seal. A glass wool plug was inserted into the opposite end of the tubing and the WAF removed by mid-depth siphoning (the first 75-100 mL discarded) to give the 12.5, 25, 50 and 100 mg/L loading rate WAFs.
- Microscopic observations of the WAFs were performed after filtering and showed no undissolved test item to be present.
- Dilutions were made from the 12.5, 25 and 50 mg/L loading rate WAF to give the further loading rates of 1.25, 2.5 and 6.25 mg/L, respectively.
- Each prepared loading rate was inverted several times to ensure adequate mixing and homogeneity.
EXPOSURE CONDITIONS
- As in the range-finding 150 mL glass jars containing approximately 100 mL of test preparation were used.
- At the start of the test 5 daphnids were placed into test preparations in each test and control vessel at random.
- Four replicate test and control vessels were prepared. The test vessels were then covered to reduce evaporation and maintained in a temperature controlled room maintaining the water temperature at 18 to 22 °C with a maximum deviation of ± 1 °C and a photoperiod of 16 hours light (between 200 and
1200 lux) and 8 hours darkness with 20-minute dawn and dusk transition periods.
- The daphnids were not individually identified, received no food during exposure and the test vessels were not aerated.
TEST ORGANISM OBSERVATIONS
- Any immobilisation or adverse reactions to exposure were recorded at 24 and 48 hours after the start of exposure.
- The criterion of effect used was that Daphnia were considered to be immobilised if they were unable to swim for approximately 15 seconds after gentle agitation.
WATER QUALITY CRITERIA
- Water temperature was recorded daily throughout the test using a Hanna Instruments H93510 digital thermometer.
- Dissolved oxygen concentrations and pH were recorded at the start and termination of the test using a Hach Flexi handheld meter.
- Light intensity during the light period was measured using an ATP Instruments Lux meter.
- The appearance of the test media was recorded daily.
- Results of the test are considered valid if the following performance criteria are met:
(a) No more than 10 % of the control daphnids show immobilisation or other signs of disease or stress (e.g. discoloration or unusual behaviour such as trapping at the surface water).
(b) The dissolved oxygen concentration at the end of the test is ≥ 3 mg/L in the control and test vessels.
MAJOR COMPUTERISED SYSTEMS
- TOC measurement: Shimadzu
- Statistical analysis: ToxRat Professional
potassium dichromate (investigation conducted between 20 october 2016 and 22 October 2016 - see Annex 3, attached)
19 mg/L
loading rate WAF
other: 95% confidence limits 16 to 24 mg/L
NOELR
6.25 mg/L
LOELR
12.5 mg/L
- Preliminary investigation (see Annex 4, attached) indicated that increasing the stirring period significantly increased the amount of carbon in the WAF between the 24-hour and 96-hour preparation periods.
- Preparation of the WAF therefore involved a 95-hour stirring period followed by a 1-hour standing period.
RANGE FINDING TEST
- Cumulative immobilisation data and other observations from the exposure of Daphnia magna to the test item during the range-finding test are given in Table 1 (attached).
- No immobilisation was observed at 1.0 mg/L loading rate WAF; however, immobilisation was observed at 10 and 100 mg/L loading rate WAF.
- Based on this information loading rates of 0.78, 1.56, 3.13, 6.25 and 12.5 mg/L were selected for the initial experiment.
- Total Organic Carbon (TOC) analysis of the 1.0, 10 and 100 mg/L test preparations at 0 hours (see Annex 5, attached) showed measured concentrations to range from 1.70 to 3.71 mg C/L. There was not a significant difference in the measured concentrations of carbon at 48 hours, which ranged from 1.50 to 4.22 mg C/L.
- No immobilization was observed in the 0.78, 1.56, 3.13, 6.25 and 12.5 mg/L loading rate WAFs after 48 hours of exposure.
- Based on the results of the range-finding test and initial experiment, a definitive test was conducted with the loading rates of 1.25, 2.5, 6.25, 12.5, 25, 50 and 100 mg/L.
- Total Organic Carbon (TOC) analysis of the test preparations at 0 hours (see Annex 5, attached) showed measured concentrations to range from less than the limit of quantification (LOQ), determined to be 1.0 mg C/L, to 5.6 mg C/L. There was no significant difference in the measured concentrations of carbon at 48 hours.
- The dissolved test item may have been one or several components of the test item. Given that toxicity cannot be attributed to a single component or mixture of components but to the test item as a whole, the results were based on nominal test concentrations only.
IMOBILISATION DATA
- Cumulative immobilisation data and other observations from the exposure of Daphnia magna to the test item during the definitive test are given in Table 2 (attached).
- The relationship between percentage immobilization and concentration at 48 hours is given in Figure 1 (attached).
- Analysis of the immobilisation data by Probit analysis using Linear Maximum-Likelihood regression at 24 hours and 48 hours, based on the nominal loading rates, gave an EL50 (24h) value of 27 mg/L (95 % confidence limits not determined) and an EL50 (48h) value of 19 mg/L (95 % confidence limits 16 to 24 mg/L).
- The No Observed Effect Loading Rates (NOELR) after 24 and 48 hours exposure were 25 and 6.25 mg/L, respectively.
- The Lowest Observed Effect Loading Rates (LOELR) after 24 and 48 hours exposure were 50 and 12.5 mg/L, respectively.
- The slopes and their standard errors of the response curves at 24 and 48 hours were 17 (SE = 0.12) and 3.8 (SE = 0.047), respectively.
SUB-LETHAL EFFECTS
- A sub-lethal effect of exposure was observed in the 12.5 and 25 mg/L loading rate WAFs.
- The response was reduced mobility (see Table 2, attached).
- The test was considered to be valid given that none of the control daphnids showed immobilisation or other signs of disease or stress and that the oxygen concentration at the end of the test was ≥ 3 mg/L in the control and test vessels.
- The results of the water quality measurements are given in Table 3 (attached).
- Temperature was maintained at 21 to 22 °C throughout the test.
- There were no treatment related differences for oxygen concentration or pH.
- Throughout the test the light intensity was observed to be in the range 572 to 586 lux.
OBSERVATIONS ON TEST ITEM SOLUBILITY
- At the start of stirring, the 12.5 to 100 mg/L loading rate WAFs were observed to have formed a clear, colourless water column with test item adhered to a glass slide suspended mid-depth in the media.
- At the end of stirring, the 50 mg/L loading rate WAF was observed to be a clear, colourless water column with test item adhered to a glass slide, sitting on the bottom, and test item dispersed throughout the water column.
- All other WAFs were observed to be clear, colourless water columns with test item adhered to a glass slide suspended mid-depth, and test item dispersed throughout the water column.
- Following a 1-hour standing period, the WAFs were observed to be a clear, colourless water column with test item dispersed throughout and settled on the bottom.
- At the start and throughout the test, all control and test solutions were observed to be clear, colourless solutions.
- The results from the positive control with potassium dichromate were within the normal range for this reference item (see Annex 3, attached).
- The EL50 values and associated confidence limits at 24 and 48 hours, and the slope of the response curve and its standard error, were calculated by Probit analysis using Linear Maximum-Likelihood regression. The Lowest Observed Effect Loading Rate and the No Observed Effect Loading Rate at 24 and 48 hours were calculated using the Fisher's Exact Binomial Test with Bonferroni correction.
- All results were calculated using the ToxRat Professional computer software package (ToxRat).
Exposure of Daphnia magna to the test item gave an EL50 (48h) value of 19 mg/L loading rate WAF. The No Observed Effect Loading Rate (NOELR) was 6.25 mg/L loading rate WAF and the Lowest Observed Effect Loading Rate (LOELR) was reported as 12.5 mg/L loading rate WAF.
A study was performed to assess the acute toxicity of the test item toDaphnia magna.The method followed was designed to be compatible with the OECD Guidelines for Testing of Chemicals (April 2004) No 202,"Daphnia sp., Acute Immobilisation Test" referenced as Method C.2 of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 440/2008.
Due to the low aqueous solubility and complex nature of the test item, for the purposes of the test, the test medium was prepared as a Water Accommodated Fraction (WAF). Following a preliminary range finding test and initial experiment, twenty daphnids (4 replicates of 5 animals) were exposed to a Water Accommodated Fraction (WAF) of the test item at a nominal loading rate of 1.25, 2.5, 6.25, 12.5, 25, 50 and 100 mg/L for 48 hours at a temperature of 21 to 22 °C under static test conditions. The number of immobilised daphnia were recorded after 24 and 48 hours.
Total Organic Carbon (TOC) analysis of the test preparations at 0 hours showed measured concentrations ranging from less than the limit of quantification (determined to be 1.0 mg C/L) to 5.6 mg C/L. There was no significant difference in the measured concentrations of carbon at 48 hours. Given that the toxicity cannot be attributed to a single component or a mixture of components but to the test item as a whole, the results were based on nominal loading rates only.
Exposure of Daphnia magna to the test item gave an EL50 (48h) value of 19 mg/L loading rate WAF. The No Observed Effect Loading Rate (NOELR) was 6.25 mg/L loading rate WAF and the Lowest Observed Effect Loading Rate (LOELR) was reported as 12.5 mg/L loading rate WAF (OECD 202 and EU Method C.2).
EC50/LC50 for freshwater invertebrates:
A study was performed to assess the acute toxicity of the test item to Daphnia magna.The method followed was designed to be compatible with the OECD Guidelines for Testing of Chemicals (April 2004) No 202,"Daphnia sp., Acute Immobilisation Test" referenced as Method C.2 of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 440/2008.


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Technology does more to reduce environmental harm than emissions tests
Improved technology has done more to reduce environmental harm than government emissions tests
Latest Cartoon
Gollum Biden
Illustration questioning the efficacy of auto emissions testing by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times more >
By James Bovard - - Thursday, July 7, 2016
As I recently sat in a seemingly endless line of cars at the Maryland vehicle emissions checkpoint, the engine in my 1999 Ford suddenly growled, shuttered and conked out cold. Maybe this was karma for my decades of scoffing at harebrained government regulations?
As I waited 90 minutes for a tow truck, I watched a stream of vehicles tarry up to half an hour to proceed through the Vehicle Emissions Inspection Program (VEIP) gauntlet. This test is touted as a golden shield for air quality, but the Maryland Department of Environment was unable to provide any data on its benefits after I sent them an inquiry.
Drivers in 31 states must comply with similar tests thanks to the Clean Air Act. States that displease the EPA, which dictates the compliance regulations, risk losing federal highway funds. The tests have been in the news lately thanks to Volkswagen's software switcheroo that sent misleading signals when its diesel engines took government emission tests. But regardless of Volkswagen's perfidy, do the tests, which began before revolutions in auto engine designs, make any sense?
An EPA air compliance inspector in Alaska admitted in 2012, "You're just not finding a lot of dirty cars any more." A Colorado government audit recently concluded that the "public need" for its emission testing regime was "uncertain" and recommended exempting all vehicles from model year 2001 onwards. (Maryland exempts only the two most recent model years.)
Improved technology by auto manufacturers has probably done a hundred times more to reduce environmental harm than government emission tests. According to University of Denver research engineer Gary Bishop, emission inspections "costs lots of money" but "does absolutely nothing to clean up the air." Mr. Bishop, who has pioneered new methods of roadside sensor tests, found that auto emissions in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which has no emission testing, were no worse than in locales with strict
testing regimes.
I have been jaded on these tests since 2008 when a VEIP employee briefly hooked up a gizmo to my car dashboard and then announced that my Contour failed. I had four months to get it fixed or I would be banned from driving it — unless I spent at least $450 on repairs. My mechanic examined the car and was mystified because the engine and everything else was running smooth and clean. Then he suggested that the Check Engine light was the reason it failed. He made no repairs, but when I got retested, the attendant hooked up an apparatus to the tail pipe to measure actual emissions. My car passed with flying colors.
Maryland, like many other states, has a massive, mandatory emission testing regime that relies on the Onboard Diagnostic (OBD) system in car dashboards. Regulators presume an illuminated Check Engine light proves that there is an emission violation. But there are plenty of reasons why the check engine light would go on aside from excessive emissions — such as a loose wire, a faulty sensor, or a computer glitch. When Ontario switched in 2013 from measuring tailpipe emissions to checking OBD readings, the percentage of vehicles that failed the tests soared by 60 percent.
VEIP is my biannual regulatory dodge ball game. When I received my VEIP summons in April, my Check Engine light was on — as it has been for much of the past decade. I delayed getting tested, hoping the light would switch off — as it does periodically. Then Maryland warned that it would cancel my vehicle registration unless I got VEIPed within 30 days. I took my car onto the interstate and drove it harder, faster, and further than usual to get the Check Engine light to switch off. It worked — at least until my fuel pump gave up the ghost in the testing line. After spending $837 for a new fuel pump and a $29 inspection fee (including a $15 late charge), my Ford received another two-year reprieve from bureaucratic damnation.
Federal, state, and local policies cause more air pollution than VEIP deters. Driving to the VEIP site, I had ample opportunity to cuss the pointless delays on the county's main six-lane business corridor. Red lights are one of the biggest sources of air pollution around. But Montgomery County is raking in $4 million a year in fines from red light cameras, a strong deterrent to synchronizing the lights.
Maryland drivers are compelled to rely on fuel with 10 percent ethanol. Maryland has some of the worst smog problems in the nation and ethanol is notorious for increasing smog — especially in the summer. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources estimated that adding ethanol to gasoline does twice as much harm to air quality as auto emission testing prevents.
Anyone who scorns a VEIP summons runs into another government buzzsaw. Maryland leads the nation in surveillance of its citizens — or at least its drivers. Under former governor Martin O'Malley, the state snared federal Homeland Security grants to equip hundreds of police cars with license plate scanners that create almost 100 million records per year detailing exactly where and when each vehicle travels. The massive data bank, which mortifies the ACLU, has been almost a total failure at nailing violent criminals or car thieves or terrorists. Instead, almost all the license plate alerts involve VEIP violators.
Unfortunately, Maryland's license plate scanners are unable to detect regulatory boondoggles. Will the state's politicians admit the futility of emission testing before my old Ford receives another VEIP summons in 2018? Regardless of how much pollution government policies cause, bureaucrats are still entitled to unlimited power over drivers who might — or might not — inflict environmental harm.
• James Bovard is the author of "Attention Deficit Democracy" (Palgrave, 2006) and "Lost Rights" (St. Martin's, 1994).


This is a very scarce/rare Pin or Button that was included with the purchase of Clovia Dolls when they first came out in 1949. Clovia was a rubber bodied Red Headed doll. This green and ivory colored button is in excellent condition with a glossy front depicting a head in a four leaf clover and the words "Lucky Me I Own A New Clovia Doll". It has very minor rust on the back (see photos), and measures 1 ¾" across.


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Q: Slash Command: DiscordAPIError: Unknown Webhook error? I am trying to make an avatar command with slash commands and I keep on getting an error.
Here is my code and error. The name, description and options for the slash commands are in another file:
Data Handler.js
async function createCmd(Client, guildId) {
    const data = [
        // ping
        {
            name: 'ping',
            description: "Return Websocket ping."
        },

        {
            name: 'slowmode',
            description: "Set Channel Slowmode.",
            options: [{
                name: "time",
                type: 'NUMBER',
                description: "Message Delay of the channel.",
                required: true
            }]
        },
        {
            name: 'avatar',
            description: 'Get a user\'s avatar.',
            options: [{
                name: 'target',
                type: 'USER',
                description: 'Choose a user',
                required: true,
            }]
        }

    ]

    await Client.guilds.cache.get(guildId)?.commands.set(data);
}
//834698665213952051

module.exports = { createCmd }

Avatar.js
const Client = require("../../bot").Client
const Discord = require('discord.js');

module.exports.run = async (inter) => {
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A: You are trying to use CommandInteraction#followUp an interaction you never replied to yet! Instead of using CommandInteraction#followUp, use CommandInteraction#reply
await inter.reply({
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Attorney General O'Connor Responds to Pardon and Parole Board's Clemency Denial for Donald Grant
"Brenda McElyea and Suzette Smith were working at the LaQuinta Inn in July 2001 when they were brutally murdered by Donald Grant. Today, Grant's request for a recommendation of clemency was denied by the Pardon and Parole Board. Grant received a jury trial and, in 2006, received the sentence of death. This was a just and appropriate sentence for the brutal murders of two innocent women. This conviction and sentence was affirmed after years of thorough review by the appellate courts. I am grateful that the Board denied Grant's request for executive clemency. Our thoughts and prayers are now with the families of Brenda McElyea and Suzette Smith," said Attorney General John O'Connor.


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Posted on October 16, 2019	by John Boruff
The books and audio teachings listed below are an eclectic bunch. In my opinion, it is very challenging to teach comprehensively on the subject of miraculous gifts without borrowing from a variety of Christian spiritual traditions. To only focus on one tradition is to confine and limit our understanding of a subject which is mostly comprised of experiential content. But when teaching about experiences, we must also teach what is considered to be Christian orthodoxy. The very idea of borrowing from different Christian traditions begs the question: is this not heretical? Catholics consider Protestants to be heretics and vice versa. Conservative Pentecostals, like myself, generally view charismatic churches in the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) as heretics.
If we were only to rely on Catholic teaching for miraculous gifts, we could turn to Augustin Poulain's The Graces of Interior Prayer, where we would learn of things such as contemplation or listening to the Holy Spirit, and visions, and discernment. But if we stopped at Poulain, we'd end up believing in anti-Biblical things like venerating the dead and taking Mary as our intercessor before God. If we were to only look at what Assemblies of God has to say on the subject, we could go with Donald Gee's Concerning Spiritual Gifts, which would define what certain gifts do, but little would be said about how to grow in and experience those gifts. There would also be no teaching on dreams and visions. If we were to rely only on what the Vineyard has to say, we could content ourselves with what John Wimber said in his Spiritual Gifts Seminar and Power Healing, but we would find still a lack of teaching on dream interpretation, and the nature of prophetic ministry.
If we were to side with the likes of Mike Bickle and IHOP, and borrow his teachings from Growing in the Prophetic, or buy into what he does entirely, we might be exposing ourselves to a kundalini spirit and drinking into the carnality and lack of spiritual discernment that has plagued charismatics ever since the Toronto Blessing movement happened in 1994. It might, however, be safer to allow John and Paula Sandford's The Elijah Task to teach us about the nature of prophetic ministry. That book seems to have spawned the idea, and was first published in 1977, long before the Toronto fiasco came with its offshoots like Bethel Church, Todd Bentley, and John Crowder. But even if we were to stop at Sandford on the nature of dreams and visions, we might still find a shade of error, because of his Jungian expressions and use of the word "psychic," which might lead us to balance that out with John Paul Jackson's The Biblical Model of Dream Interpretation, which filters out a lot of false, egocentric, psychology interpretations of dreams that entered the church through Morton Kelsey and Herman Riffel.
To have a full and complete teaching on miraculous gifts, what you need firstly, is a definition of the gifts listed in 1 Corinthians 12:8-10. Both Gee and Wimber did this. After all the definitions have been made; and the theory of what the gifts can accomplish for the Church has been solidified, the next step should be to explain what it is like to actually experience those gifts; and the final stages would involve interpreting, understanding, and using those gifts for personal direction from the Holy Spirit and for the edification and comfort of the body of Christ. Too many books only stop at defining the gifts in a theoretical way; especially Assemblies of God or Gospel Publishing House books; they take it from the approach of a detached Bible study and leave you with little to no guidance about how to receive these gifts into your life. The charismatic and the Catholic books will take you into the deeper waters of spiritual experience, but they often lack the theological orthodoxy that you get from the Assemblies of God books. Wimber, for example, taught against the Pentecostal understanding of the baptism in the Holy Spirit in Acts 2, 10, and 19. I feel that Poulain, Gee, and Wimber provide a solid understanding of miraculous gifts. And anywhere that Wimber left off at, namely dream interpretation, you may find that John Sandford, Ira Milligan, and John Paul Jackson hammered out.
But it's important for me, as a Pentecostal, that in reaching out to both Catholic and Vineyard theology, and some dream-and-vision teachers that associated with Wimber for a time, to in no way lean to Catholicism as a means of salvation or to the charismaniacs of the Toronto Blessing, which end up flapping like seals and barking like dogs! I believe that the Holy Spirit and Biblical orthodoxy always agree with one another, but neither do I take it to mean that there are no dreams and visions today. Such things have to be rooted in the old evangelicalism—Wesleyan, Finneyite, Puritan revivalism. Not the watered down Southern Baptist type we see today, the kind that has "once saved, always saved" as its only creed.
I distrust any preacher that does not have a 17th or 18th century understanding of the Bible. Today, there is so much antinomian, universalist, no-lordship nonsense out there mixed together with pluralistic Hindu gurus, Native American shaman quotes, and New Age pop psychology, and gay theologians, together with tongue speaking, all jumbled together in confusion. It's just heresy! Charismatics need all the miracles they can get, but they also need all the Bible they can get. Who will point them in the right direction? Anyone teaching on the gifts of the Spirit, coming from Bethel Church, or IHOP, or MorningStar Ministries, or Catch The Fire Toronto is highly suspect in my opinion. These movements have consistently shunned orthodox evangelicalism in favor of the vanity and attention of heretical enthusiasts. Sexually immoral teachers have been honored in their midst. The only exception I would make is Steve Thompson's You May All Prophesy, which was published just before the Lakeland Revival; and after Bentley's moral failure, Thompson had the integrity to leave MorningStar. Being that it is 2019, I would like to lay a special emphasis on warning against anything coming from Bill Johnson and Bethel Church. There is a lot of antinomianism and universalism coming out of that ministry; and because, through their Bethel Music, they are reaching into churches through praise and worship leaders, they are very popular and influential right now in charismatic churches. Although Bill Johnson's God Is Good speaks against universalism in passing (p. 104), there is no doubt that many within his stream lean in that direction. Beni Johnson practices Christian yoga (Healthy and Free, p. 71), Judy Franklin thinks that the New Age movement has some pretty good ideas (The Physics of Heaven, p. 15), Heidi Baker and Jake Hamilton downplay the John 14:6 gospel message in the film Holy Ghost, and they continue to befriend John Crowder who is an outspoken "trinitarian" universalist, whatever that is supposed to mean. Clearly universalism is somewhere in the waters of Bethel Church's reach, but so also are antinomian ideas. Jenn Johnson teaches against "black and white" thinking in one video, claiming that moral truth can operate on a gray scale: once again, pointing people away from Biblical law as the black and white absolute moral standard of right and wrong. Kris Vallotton admittedly does teach prophetic ministry there, but also borrows from Steve Thompson's work, so there is no need to resort to Vallotton where Thompson has already succeeded. Bethel Church pushes an impure form of charismatic Christianity. I'd recommend being respectful and pick your battles with people ensnared by Bethel ideas, but I would personally urge people to avoid their teachings on YouTube, in books, etc.
True prophets shun such movements. Men like Andrew Strom, who explains in Why I Left the Prophetic Movement, that the lack of repentance preaching and holiness preaching combined with bizarre behavior, is what turned him off from what is now called the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR). Andrew Strom points us to men like John Wesley, Charles Finney, Smith Wigglesworth, Leonard Ravenhill, and David Wilkerson as men of God to frame our spirituality around. I tend to agree with him about this. But to add one additional observation: there is little to no teaching on dreams and visions, dream interpretation, prophetic ministry (receiving and giving words of knowledge) in the writings of these men. You have to look to John Sandford, John Paul Jackson, Ira Milligan, and John Wimber to get teaching on that.
You have to borrow to a degree, outside of your comfort zone of perfect evangelical revival theology; otherwise, you're not going to get the full view on miraculous gifts. A lot of what Strom is pointing to is evangelicalism, which is Gospel-centered salvation theology. But when it comes to miraculous gifts, we are dealing with things such as stillness, quieting the mind, journaling dreams and visions, interpreting prophetic symbols, and sharing supernatural information with other Christians in order to encourage their faith, sometimes to the point of praying for physical healing and casting out demons. Smith Wigglesworth is the only prominent teacher mentioned by Strom that really straddled both evangelicalism and prophetic charismatic experiences. His writings are helpful, but I think he does not describe enough about how to experience the gift of prophecy for yourself. A lot of what he writes comes across like the book of Acts or a succession of miracle stories. I also think that a lot of the Catholic saints had miracle experiences that went much further than Wigglesworth describes; and any study of the miraculous gifts should take them into consideration as well. Although the Catholic Church is wrong about Mary and a few other things—a lot of their teaching is rooted in the church fathers, is orthodox, and agrees with the Bible.
FURTHER READING ON MIRACULOUS GIFTS
Alexander, Archibald. Thoughts on Religious Experience. Carlisle, PA: The Banner of Truth Trust, 1967. Chapter 7: "Considerations on Dreams, Visions, Etc."
Boys, Thomas. The Suppressed Evidence: or, Proofs of the Miraculous Faith and Experience of the Church of Christ In All Ages, from Authentic Records of the Fathers, Waldenses, Hussites, Reformers, United Brethren, &c. London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co., 1832.
Cruz, Joan Carroll. Mysteries Marvels Miracles: In the Lives of the Saints. Charlotte, NC: TAN Books, 1997. As with the books by Poulain and Devine, I will have to disapprove of Marianism, or devotion to dead saints; but while ignoring that, I think there was some genuine activity of the Holy Spirit among the Catholic saints.
Deere, Jack. Surprised by the Power of the Spirit. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1993. Debunks cessationism; and argues for the continuation of miraculous gifts, apostles, and prophets in the church today.
Frodsham, Stanley. Smith Wigglesworth: Apostle of Faith. Springfield, MO: Gospel Publishing House, 1948.
Gee, Donald. Concerning Spiritual Gifts. Revised. Springfield, MO: Gospel Publishing House, 1980.
Gordon, A. J. The Ministry of Healing. New Kensington, PA: Whitaker House, 2020.
Jackson, John Paul. The Biblical Model of Dream Interpretation. North Sutton, NH: Streams Publications, 2006. CDs.
Jennings, Daniel. The Supernatural Occurrences of John Wesley. Sean Multimedia, 2012.
Howie, John. The Scots Worthies. Edinburgh: The Banner of Truth Trust, 1995. Protestant reformers that experienced miracles while being persecuted.
Lewis, David. Healing: Fiction, Fantasy, or Fact? London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1989. Found that John Wimber had a 30% hit rate for dramatic healings.
MacNutt, Francis. Healing. Notre Dame: Ave Maria Press, 1974. This impacted Wimber's views on healing.
––––––. Deliverance from Evil Spirits. Grand Rapids, MI: Chosen Books, 1995.
Milligan, Ira. Understanding the Dreams You Dream. Shippensburg, PA: Treasure House, 1997. The best book I know of that can help evangelical charismatics to interpret dreams and visions with Biblical prophetic symbolism.
Poulain, Augustin. The Graces of Interior Prayer. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1950. Catholic mystical theology on contemplation and visions.
Sandford, John and Paula. The Elijah Task. Lake Mary, FL: Charisma House, 2006.
Strom, Andrew. Why I Left the Prophetic Movement. RevivalSchool, 2007.
Thompson, Steve. You May All Prophesy. Fort Mill, SC: MorningStar Publications, 2007.
Wigglesworth, Smith. Ever Increasing Faith. Revised Edition. Springfield, MO: Gospel Publishing House, 1971.
Wimber, John. Power Evangelism. San Francisco, CA: Harper & Row, 1986.
––––––. Power Healing. San Francisco, CA: Harper & Row, 1987.
––––––. Discover Wimber. 2 vols. MP3 audio files from vineyardresources.com on a USB drive. Teachings on physical healing (10 hours), miracles and church growth (14 hours), miraculous gifts (10 hours), and casting out demons (14 hours).
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Crystal maker Saint-Louis recently opened its flagship in Hong Kong and launched the Perrin & Perrin Collection. We speak to the company's art director Anne Lhomme on the new boutique and collection
Can you tell us more about the new collection and the designers behind the collection?
We decided to call on Perrin & Perrin because for the past few years they have been working with glass using a specific and captivating technique. Having studied Chinese calligraphy for 15 years, they created a language of signs that contrasts with the transparency of glass. They are architects and poets seeking to establish a script that beauty is revealed through the coercion of molten glass in parsimonious stages. We asked them to combine their approach with that of our craftsmen in our paperweights workshop. Their rich and enlightening partnership gave rise to three small works of art, which enigmatic and unique language draws us into a world of wonder. Rift, Mesa and Lapilli represent three forms of writing through the superimposition of contrasting and structured signs.
In an increasingly paperless era, people seem to think less about using paperweights. Why did you choose to feature this product?
The paperweight has become a legendary and iconic object that goes beyond its basic function. Continuation in creating this object both perpetuates incredible expertise and fires the imagination of all those who love and collect them. Thus this rather obsolete object is a little work of art adored by many. It is a hand-held microcosm for those who know how to appreciate it and lose themselves in its parallel world of fantasy. Escapism through the imagination – it's child's play! The famous French writer Colette was madly in love with these objects. She said, "The sphere of crystal, an abyss, an image-trap, a haven for weary spirits, and a creator of chimeras, never ceases to offer mysterious temptation to man."
The brand recently opened its flagship in Hong Kong. How has the response been so far?
Given that this is Saint-Louis's first foray into Hong Kong, the initial results are quite encouraging. The grand opening generated word of mouth, which has enhanced our visibility and footfall. Unfortunately, the current climate in Hong Kong prevents us from drawing a realistic picture of our potential here.
What makes Saint-Louis crystals so special?
The defining characteristics of Saint-Louis are the richness of our colours and our cutting technique. We also use overlay techniques, in which several colours are superimposed to be revealed when cut.
In your opinion, what is the charm of crystals?
Light and shadow!
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We have already opened stores in Jakarta, Beijing and Shanghai, and have others planned for the future. In terms of exhibitions, the paperweight trunk show will continue in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Indonesia.
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Q: Remote desktop connection to linux computer I am frequently using ssh to connect to remote linux machines. Using ssh -X it is even possible to use the gui. Unfortunately, this is very slow, when done over the internet. The gui is very sluggish, and frankly speaking quite annoying to use. It is also not really what I would like to have, since I don't see the desktop, and opening multiple programs via the ssh -X, makes the connection even slower.
Linux has one very handy tool named rdesktop. I can use rdesktop to log to my windows machine. In this case everything runs smoothly and results in no sluggish gui. Even better, is that I can actually see the same screen, as if I am sitting on the remote computer, which is my final goal.
My question is, whether such option exists to connect form linux to linux and have similar features like rdesktop. Or even better, is it possible to use rdesktop to connect to a linux machine?
I tired to do this, but I failed. To log on the windows machine I use Local port forwarding on an intermediate machine, since my desktop is on a local network and not directly visible from the internet. But I don't see why dis works with windows and not with linux.
Thank you for your help
With some help form the experts on this forum and some internet research I found a solution.
Solution:
It is possible to use rdesktop with Linux. For this xrdp is needed. The steps to use it are:
1) install xrdp
2) open /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini and
2.1) check on which port xrdp is listening
2.2) to be able to resume sessions change port=-1 to port=ask-1

3) if xrdp is not on do service xrdp start if it is on you have to do
service xrdp restart to load the new configuration.
4) add rule to sudo iptables -I INPUT 1 -p tcp --dport XRDP_PORT -j ACCEPT
5) rdesktop ip_remote_pc:XRDP_PORT -f -u "username"
6) Enjoy
Thanks for the help!

A: The Remote Desktop Protocol belongs to Microsoft, which is why Linux has a different protocol to the same effect, called Virtual Network Computing (=VNC). This has many different implementations, including, among others, chicken of the VNC (that's right, that's not Children of the VNC), UltraVNC, PocketVNC, RealVNC, Remmina, TightVNC. They perform exactly the same task as rdesktop, i.e., they speed up graphical connections to remote machines.
You can find here on Wikipedia an enlightening comparion of the different remote-access-softwares.
It should be noticed however that RDP now exists also for Linux-to-Linux communications. Possibly, the reason why you were unable to get this to work is that you will have to setup an RDP server on one of the Linux machines before being able to rdp into it: in most (all?) distros such server is not installed at system installation.
The instructions to do this depend on distro, on Debian and derivatives you would install a package called xrdp, which...
apt-cache show xrdp
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Description-en: Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) server
Based on research work by the rdesktop project, xrdp uses the Remote
Desktop Protocol to present a graphical login to a remote client.
xrdp can connect to a VNC server or another RDP server.

Microsoft Windows users can connect to a system running xrdp without
installing additional software.

You should check your distro's intructions to setup a proper xrdp server, then you will be able to connect to it with the same xrdp client you are using to connect to Windows hosts.


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